Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] from the [noun] on " in BNC.

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1 The wounded who were carried in from the attack on the Rebecca lay in the shade under the trees while their hurts were being dressed .
2 Past Gèdre , the landscape reverts again to its harsher , more primeval mode , as you drive through what is known as the Chaos de Coumély , a wilderness of massive boulders that have rolled down from the mountain on the left .
3 The fragment of the Quimper dish she had picked up from the dustpan on the kitchen floor that day when she and Thérèse had seen , when she saw , when the lady had shown herself for the second time .
4 Anyone who has visited a newspaper office in the last five years with expectations from cinematic memories of Citizen Kane or who has struggled back from the newsagent on a Sunday morning with a sample of what is laughably offered as a ‘ leisurely read ’ will know that much has changed .
5 There 's a couple more to be brought in from the pack on the horse .
6 The men on board the Firefly , a 25ft catamaran , had set off from the island on the return leg of the race when their craft began to ship water and threatened to founder .
7 The Triptych of the Descent from the Cross shows Christ being taken down from the cross on the central panel .
8 So far the French had been fired on from the field on their left , now they would see an officer on the right of their advance .
9 Besides these photographs were Pedro 's polo helmet , which now had a map of the Malvinas stamped on the front ( which Angel always wore in matches ) , and a jar of earth he 'd dug up from the Islands on the day he 'd been sent home as a prisoner of war .
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