Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] from the " in BNC.

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1 Long black hair tumbled from the top of the boy 's head .
2 The prince limped from the polo field at Smith 's Lawn , Windsor , yesterday and lay in agony on the sidelines after straining his back .
3 She felt the steel strength of his arms around her and her skin quivered from the warmth of his breath on her cheek before he released her as if she might contaminate him .
4 The discovery , in 1945 by Brotzu in Sardinia , of antibiotic activity in a species of Cephalosporium recovered from the sea near a sewage outfall was brought to Florey 's attention by a former British public health officer and led to work at Oxford and elsewhere on this and similar organisms .
5 The need to hire coaches arose from the fact the Supporters ' Club actively discouraged membership from fans under the age of 18 .
6 This technique arose from the inability of a child to perform the ‘ rituals ’ of the adult psychoanalytical tradition in couch-based sessions of verbal exposition .
7 The right of the pursuers to rescind the contract arose from the principle of mutuality and the materiality of the defenders ' breach , but the intention of the defenders is also relevant .
8 as if in reply an almost palpable sulphurous wave arose from the dog and eddied around me .
9 On the back or across the front of these photographs were signatures duplicated from the letters ; John Addington Symonds , Baron Corvo , Robbie Ross , for Boy with kindest regards from Reggie Turner .
10 Technically , it is on commercial grounds , and they can not recoup the money made from the everyday operation of the reactor to pay for the refurbishment of the reactor , that is true .
11 Moodie led from the start and never looked like being caught even though late in the race Joey Dunlop put in a spurt and was in second place with one lap to go .
12 A further difficulty arose from the departure of a large number of middle-class families from the Belfast area to neighbouring dormitory towns , a migratory pattern in line with changes in the demography of British cities generally for the last two decades or so .
13 My impression was that the members of the GPB were very concerned about the matter , but unfortunately no formal policy decision arose from the meeting and no action plan was devised .
14 The decision arose from the case of Nancy Curzon , who was allowed to die on Dec. 26 after a Missouri court authorized the removal of her feeding tube [ see p. 37911 ] .
15 Miss Honey asked from the head of the table .
16 Nevertheless , the fact that these bound states arose from the well-defined N = 8 theory should enable us to make a number of predictions that could be tested at energies that are accessible now or will be in the near future .
17 The sum of £250 had been borrowed from Joseph Barnard , the treasurer , to make good the actual deficiency which ‘ had not arisen from any defect or negligence whatever in the management of the institution , but on the contrary arose from the great success of the Infirmary and the high reputation it had acquired , so that the number of patients had increased rapidly ’ .
18 These projects arose from the recommendations in the report of the Cockcroft Committee on the teaching of mathematics published at the beginning of 1982 .
19 No sound of any kind rose from the hot deserted streets — no traffic noise , no hustle of people , no children , no animals .
20 As we walked , grouse rose from the heather , calling out in alarm , .
21 Diehard opinions ranged from the virulent obscurantism of Northumberland , Page Croft and Cooper , who saw politics as a black-and-white struggle between good British imperial-minded Christians and Jewish-dominated marxist wreckers , to the high-minded Association of Independent Peers , who were primarily concerned with the effect of coalition on the standards of public life and its failure to halt the drift towards class politics .
22 Harry Pascoe shouted from the far end of the room , and young Jan Lanyon , who sailed with him , put up his firsts and echoed : Aye — just let 'em try ! "
23 Marcus shouted from the doorway in that distinctly unfriendly tone of his and clapped his hands hard .
24 An early-morning mist hung over Branchester , the cathedral rising up like some ghostly fairy-tale palace while cobwebs glistened on iron railings and moisture dripped from the branches of the lime trees that fringed the roads .
25 As soon as our visitors had gone , Holmes changed from the talker to the man of action .
26 Less than a minute later noise erupted from the drawing room and excited voices drifted down the hall .
27 Most of her life was spent pushing barges loaded with silt dredged from the narrow canals around Birmingham .
28 McMaster moved from the seaside to take up a new teaching post in Drumahoe near Londonderry last week , and decided to make the break with the club he has served so well for a decade .
29 Some of these are essentially historical : the interest developed in part as a reaction or antidote to Chomsky 's treatment of language as an abstract device , or mental ability , dissociable from the uses , users and functions of language ( an abstraction that Chomsky in part drew from the post-Bloomfieldian structuralism that predominated immediately before transformational generative grammar ) .
30 The Masai moved from the great river of the north , freely interpreted as the Nile , says the professor in a note , down towards their present location .
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