Example sentences of "and [vb pp] from [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These new thelodonts show an unexpected body shape in which the body is deep and compressed from side to side and the tail is perfectly symmetrical , rather like that of early heterostracans . |
| 2 | The house was thus one structure for the family , horizontal and open in its plan ; to the servants it was quite another , vertical and confined from attic to basement . |
| 3 | Alexander looked at the stars and shifted from foot to foot . |
| 4 | His partner was much shorter and wrapped from head to toe in a brown cloak . |
| 5 | Investor protection legislation overlaps with both prudential and structural regulation in that the investor is in theory protected from financial institutions becoming insolvent through excessive risk-taking and protected from conflicts of interest by separation of types of business , but also extends much further into the manner in which investment business is carried out — the size of commissions , advertising regulations , cold calling etc . |
| 6 | There were not enough teachers , those there were harassed almost beyond bearing and driven from pillar to post , and no one ever seemed to know who Jasper was , still less remember his name . |
| 7 | In the 13th century the ‘ marble ’ was carted to Corfe Castle , the centre of the masons , and shipped from Ower on Pool Harbour for cathedrals and churches throughout the kingdom , even to France . |
| 8 | The old parish of Drumcree contained 66 townlands and stretched from Muckery to Ballyworkan . |
| 9 | I shall totter like a decaying bastion of English culture , right out of Somerset Maugham , rum-soaked and crumpled from bar to bar trying to remember What It Was All About ! ’ |
| 10 | The Largs-based professional slumped to 51st on the Order of Merit last season but , thanks to his new extra long putter , he has solved his short game problems and gone from strength to strength . |
| 11 | Since those days — when he starred as the original Ribena Kid at the age of eight — Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo has taken that motto to heart and gone from strength to strength . |
| 12 | Down , but based in Macau , set fastest time in a wet qualifying session on Saturday and led from start to finish yesterday in his Lola-Mugen to win from championship leader Kazuyoshi Hoshino . |
| 13 | The Olympic 800 metres finalist moved back up to the 1500 metres where he first made his name as a junior and led from gun to tape to win in 3 mins 39.58 secs . |
| 14 | Now the puppet raised its hands above its head and swayed from side to side . |
| 15 | Bruised and bloodied from days of interrogation on the floor of a cell that was an inch deep in his own shit and piss , the Colonel had found him and freed him . |
| 16 | Lower trade barriers permitted their development , and Japanese government restrictions on overseas investment encouraged companies that treated markets on a global basis and benefitted from economies of scale . |
| 17 | They used this strong position to reduce the Catholic and generally Irish nationalist minority of the population to the level of second-class citizens , discriminated against in public housing and employment , and excluded from positions of power and authority . |
| 18 | A government and a church should be complementary in the management of human affairs , the government as elected within a nation , and the church based on a world-wide acceptance of a defined ‘ god ’ — , and removed from control by government except in so far as its necessary commercial structure , and its adherents , must obey the laws of the prevailing administration . |
| 19 | By the third number , he had found his confidence and switched from electric to acoustic guitar for Give Me Love — the only sadness being that the slide guitar part was played on a synthesiser . |
| 20 | He was presented to the Headmaster in his sleeveless jacket , ragged trousers and covered from head to foot in dirt . |
| 21 | They are sorted , packed and dispatched from Edinburgh to mission hospitals including the Nazareth Hospital . |
| 22 | Garfield , of all the institutions in which she had ever worked , was most responsive to mood , to atmosphere ; it shifted and changed from day to day , from week to week , for it had , like the larger society of her larger imagining , its own corporate , its own embodied spirit , all the more powerful for its caging , its high barbed wire , its high walls . |
| 23 | He fingerspelt Bobo want chocolate ? and got what he thought might be an expression of interest as Bobo made a couple of deep whoo noises and rocked from side to side . |