Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] from the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their perseverance revealed the obvious : needs and capacities continue to change after a person has been de-hospitalized or moved from the parental home to a group home — and the developmental role has therefore to be seen as a permanent not a temporary one . |
| 2 | It was touch-and-go whether she could reach the pram before it either overturned or leapt from the rocky wall at the foot of the bank on to the road , along which traffic was speeding in both directions . |
| 3 | It was a further example of Peking 's present heavy-handed approach towards Hong Kong , and stemmed from the colonial government 's decision not to return swimmer Yang Yang to China last week , but to allow him to leave for asylum in the United States . |
| 4 | An official inquiry indicates that her body arrived at the Military Hospital at 16:20 the same day and came from the Military School . |
| 5 | Leathart had interests in lead mining and came from the well-known mining town of Alston , in the Northern Pennines . |
| 6 | The brilliant specimen is one of the biggest ever boated off South Wales and came from the same mark which yielded Charlie a 33 lb 8 oz cod three years ago . |
| 7 | He threw one of his arms around the dog and ate from the same dish . |
| 8 | These offered a variety of recreational activities , swimming , sports , dancing and so on in addition to basic victualling , and borrowed from the ordinary pub the opprobium of encouraging immoral behaviour . |
| 9 | In 1979 Mauritania concluded a peace agreement with Polisario , declared its neutrality in the conflict and withdrew from the southern sector ( see pp. 29565-67 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ Get a tyre , ’ he yelled at Bodie , but Bodie 's shot was inches wide , and ricocheted from the concrete wall distantly . |
| 11 | She stole an anxious look at him and withered from the frosty blast of his basilisk stare . |
| 12 | He held no office , had no possessions , and came and went from the political arena at times of his own choosing . |
| 13 | She halted , hesitated , flicked a glance at him and saw from the surprised look on his face that he was putting his own interpretation on why she was scurrying to her room . |
| 14 | Smoke and steam gushed and hissed from the shattered windscreen and side windows . |
| 15 | He let out a deep , hungry growl as she bucked and gasped from the shocking sensation , her eyes like a frightened doe 's . |
| 16 | DNA subclones and probes used in this work were isolated and subcloned from the appropriate cosmid or plasmid into Bluescript ( Stratagene ) following established techniques ( 34 ) . |
| 17 | He had committed ‘ grave errors ’ in political decisions and strayed from the socialist road . |
| 18 | ‘ Christopher Ricks was very good because he was a bit trendy in that he played Bob Dylan and quoted from the Daily Mirror in lectures and tutorials . |
| 19 | Tom handed the reins to Carrie and leaped from the light cart , heading for a nearby cottage . |
| 20 | When the device is powered with 3–4 volts of electricity , a 50-microwatt laser beam applied by optical fibre from below the substrate , is first absorbed , amplified four times , and emitted from the upper surface . |
| 21 | She heard the jangling of the bell , and hurried from the little chamber . |
| 22 | She did not stay there long , but retreated from the fierce sun to the stern-cabin that she would be sharing with Ellen . |
| 23 | Blanche had heard rumours about the pressures on police manpower but knew from the chief superintendent 's manner that that could not be the reason . |