Example sentences of "and [verb] from the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When both partners in a marriage consistently blame the other and suffer from the accompanying underlying despair , the marriage is likely to be in difficulties from the beginning . |
| 2 | The rain beat against the peeling door and the uncurtained windows and dripped from the still bloody lambskin that swung spreadeagled from the washing line . |
| 3 | But within a few weeks of William 's appointment she had applied to three different London boroughs for a job — any job — in social work , taken the first one she 'd been offered , fixed up the flat , put the cottage on the market , found a school for Edwin , and fled from the last five years of her life with almost indecent haste . |
| 4 | and the warden was there in her dressing gown trying to get her up and she could n't get her up this morning , so she had to get help , one of the workmen came along and helped from the top terrible to say though it is , yeah , never mind , they get over it |
| 5 | This does n't mean that ICL has given up on the Texas Instruments Inc Sparc line , simply that it can now pick and choose from the two superscalar implementations on offer , says Mike Coote . |
| 6 | The internal classification of the genus is founded on the arrangements of the nowers : heads of only fertile flowers for one entomophilous section ; similar but with a distal zone of nectariferous ones in another ; the distal ones are fertile and separated from the proximal staminodal ones by a zone of nectariferous ones in a third . |
| 7 | the date when the total quantity of petroleum won and saved from the original 8.62608 per cent interest in the Ninian field attributable to the Group reaches 120 million barrels ; or |
| 8 | Over dinner Fielding explained to me about the lucrative contingencies of pornography , the pandemonium of Forty-Second Street , the Boylesk dealerships on Seventh Avenue with their prodigies of chickens and chains , the Malibu circuit with the crews splashing through the set at dusk for the last degrees of heft and twang and purchase from the beached male lead on the motel floor , the soft proliferations of soft core in worldwide cable and network and its careful codes of airbrush and dick-wipe , the stupendous aberrations of Germany and Japan , the perversion-targeting in video mail-order , the mob snuff-movie operation conceived in Mexico City and dying in the Five Boroughs . |
| 9 | The suits , jackets , trousers , shirts and ties from the Paris-based Japanese designer have been a mainstay of the shop for some 10 years . |
| 10 | The brave young woman , with hands blistered and bloated and bleeding from the venomous hair-fine spines of the prickly pear , opened the fruit , dried it in the sun , and spun it to a fine thread on a spindle . |
| 11 | RF325 was transferred to SMR , carrying the codes ‘ H–D ’ and progressing from the white/grey maritime colours to overall dark grey circa 1952 . |
| 12 | Delaney shouted , saw her going under , and knew from the strange lethargic roll as a wave washed past , that something was desperately wrong . |
| 13 | But we 'll all be so busy reading all this wonderful stuff , and learning from the big bad world about how to market it , that we wo n't have time to do anything else . ’ |
| 14 | The illustrated example was also found in Hertfordshire , and dates from the late 1st or early 2nd century AD . |
| 15 | item No 2 : is a candle snuffer of the type used with a candle dish and dates from the late 18th century . |
| 16 | erm sequences such as what happened yesterday , what happened today , what 's going to happen tomorrow — dyslexic people very often have great difficulty with this and transferring from the two dimensional to the three dimensional , like you might say to a dyslexic adult when he or she asks directions , ‘ Oh , well , it 's first right , second left and then there 's a tower on your right and you 've got to turn to the left after the tree ’ and so on , and a dyslexic person ca n't remember any of that at all , or transfer it from the map to the reality . |
| 17 | Since 1914 millions of Russians had been on the move — four to five million away from the advancing armies of the Central Powers ; at least twelve million fleeing into exile during and after the Revolution ; the largest land army in the world manoeuvring , dying , and deserting from the longest front-line in history — to give the major examples alone , with very approximate numbers . |
| 18 | My father loved old time Music Hall songs and hits from the Gay Nineties like ‘ Good-bye , Dolly Grey ’ , and ‘ Soldiers of the Queen ’ , and one of his favourites was ‘ Burlington Bertie ’ . |
| 19 | Buzzards Bellbuoy is certainly a possibility under last year 's hero Jimmy Quinn , and comes from the same stable as Cuvee Charlie ( won five years ago ) . |