Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] from [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is an exaggeration , but you should remember that the older the history book ( especially over 20 years ) the less reliable it can be considered to be , because ( i ) new evidence is always being unearthed ( ii ) all historians tend to write from within the perspective of their own times ( " every generation writes its own history " ) ( iii ) most professional historians update their own interpretations according to personal preference and in the face of scholarly criticism . |
| 2 | UNESCO is the third such agency that the US has withdrawn from in less than a decade . |
| 3 | Indeed half of Littlewoods ' 2.5 million agents have adopted this route and the average number of customers per agent has fallen from between six and 10 to just over two . |
| 4 | An explorer who does not compile maps as he or she proceeds is likely to end up going round in circles ; likewise , a society that does not know where it has come from in the past has no chance of knowing where it is going in the future . |
| 5 | On the move : has transferred from to the personnel department . |
| 6 | PROJECT engineer has retired from after 41 years service . |
| 7 | They want to build from within the club and restore the atmosphere and team spirit that was perhaps missing last year . |
| 8 | . But on a Saturday I had another paper round , from the same people , which involved travelling from to the Sanatorium on Road which is probably two and a half mile , with a cycle , advertising Smiths with the carriers on . |
| 9 | Roger 's violent personality has emerged from beyond his ‘ superego ’ which once held back his conditioned arm from throwing stones , which now is demonstrated by the dropping of a rock on Piggy , the beating up of Sam 'n' Eric and the sharpening of his stick at both ends . |
| 10 | Grubby brown chipboard has emerged from under the designer fitted units and the cobalt blue Mexican tiles appear to have rusted . |
| 11 | It has cum from off de bookshelf |
| 12 | Ohrid , the deepest lake in Yugoslavia ( 286 m ( 935 ft ) at its greatest depth ) is of great scientific interest , as it contains a species of trout which , like the omul in Lake Baikal , has survived from before the last Ice Age , the lake having being formed during the Tertiary period . |
| 13 | However , few musical laudarios are extant , and only one of Florentine provenance has survived from before the 15th century : the renowned , luxuriantly decorated early 14th-century manuscript , MS Banco Rari 18 , which belonged , rather surprisingly , to one of the more modest Florentine companies , the Compagnie delle laude di Santo Spirito . |
| 14 | Here the Athenian artist ( the face is directly in the tradition of the calf-bearer ) has learnt from beyond the Aegean to realise the body under the clothes but has rejected the elaborate schema . |
| 15 | With Mario , you felt that if you were walking through the wilds and a bear came bellowing from behind a tree , Mario would seize its paw , shake it vigorously and tell it a good story . |
| 16 | It seemed to come from above me . |
| 17 | Now the sound of the river seemed to come from beneath their feet . |
| 18 | Although the passengers were concealed by drawn curtains , an unpleasant thug dressed in a coachman 's uniform could be seen dismounting from behind the reins . |
| 19 | Rayleen looked at him as if he 'd dropped from behind peeling wallpaper . |
| 20 | As the baby grows up , 24-hour rhythms begin to appear from about the second month of life onwards . |
| 21 | He criticised the committee for failing to say where the extra money needed to come from in the defence budget . |
| 22 | There was not one villager who had dared to emerge from behind his shuttered door , not since the foreigner had come to the village . |
| 23 | Guests — all Sikhs — began to appear from around the nearby houses and , after greeting Mrs Puri , quietly took their place cross-legged in ranks on the ground . |
| 24 | She was caught in the middle of a terrible ghastly nightmare , and one she could n't even hope to escape from by waking up . |
| 25 | And it is that each local church , of whatever sign should be invited to nominate from amongst their elder division those elders who district council might consider and recognise as dividing elders for a stated period of years with authority to do , provide them all services of worship and meetings of that local church , as the need arises . |
| 26 | In the ensuing days , as the country suffered a series of aftershocks measuring up to 6.3 on the Richter scale , medical teams and supplies began arriving from around the world . |
| 27 | ‘ The month began quietly , but things really began to move from about the 10th onwards , and in terms of takings we recorded a couple of record days . |
| 28 | Had it been accepted , the District would have been confined to only three centres in Norfolk — Norwich , Great Yarmouth and King 's Lynn and would have withdrawn from at least ten other centres at which WEA branches had existed , some from the early twenties . |
| 29 | Our lucid moments , those times when the shadow seems to fall from off the face of our inward confusion , these are the times when we are drawn closer to God , to our inward Source . |
| 30 | For fine and powerful though his words were , they had seemed to come from beyond him and here , now , alone in this miserable place , with Minch gone from the Cages , he was already doubting the truth of what he had said only moments before . |