Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] from the " in BNC.

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1 I generally work from dark to light and bring it out from the dark .
2 I generally work from dark to light and bring it out from the dark .
3 The pain steadily increased in force , blotting out the fires on the hill above the melon beds , increasing the darkness until they could make out nothing in the compound below , and driving them back from the streaming verandah .
4 I slid Lewis 's helmet on and cut myself off from the world .
5 He was determined to get behind the Russians and cut them off from the east .
6 Great flights of fire-breathing beasts swooped on the armies of the night , and drove them back from the heart of Ulthuan to the shores of the island-continent .
7 and getting them up from the cellars .
8 Julia nodded and pulled herself up from the sofa .
9 The path was bumpy in places , and sent her up from the saddle and down again violently , but she did n't pause to think about bruises or anything but getting to the bridge before the van .
10 Sam recovered in the third set from 1–3 to lead 5–4 , but she was unable to close out the match against a tough opponent who rarely deviated from her game plan of staying back and slugging it out from the baseline .
11 I thought , yeah , fair enough she goes , we can go and pick him up from the child-minder and then er you can come for some tea and you 'll be home by about half seven !
12 Lāla Bahādur started to play with its stringy tail — twirling it round in the air , twisting and tugging it back from the socket — trying to provoke a reaction that would jar it to life .
13 The altitude is not very good for some of them : a box of old books that I found had congealed together with the damp and had I dared to try and pull one out from the row of upturned spines , to identify it , all the others would have risen too .
14 If that is the carrot to persuade this Parliament to give up such independence as it possesses and to move it on from the treaty of Rome , I would want a lot of persuading that that was in our best interests .
15 Hundreds of riot police then charged repeatedly at scores of Left-wingers and pushed them back from the podium so that President Weizsaecker could begin his speech .
16 They drove a lorry across farm fields and loaded it up from the home of the Marquess of Cholmondeley yesterday .
17 Gasping for breath , Gentle registered little or none of this , but pushed himself up from the wall to re-launch his attack .
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