Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] 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 | They want to build from within the club and restore the atmosphere and team spirit that was perhaps missing last year . |
| 3 | It seemed to come from above me . |
| 4 | Now the sound of the river seemed to come from beneath their feet . |
| 5 | As the baby grows up , 24-hour rhythms begin to appear from about the second month of life onwards . |
| 6 | He criticised the committee for failing to say where the extra money needed to come from in the defence budget . |
| 7 | There was not one villager who had dared to emerge from behind his shuttered door , not since the foreigner had come to the village . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Because still in 1988 , under the pressure of social instability and political crises , homosexuality could be regarded as a kind of privation or error , an ‘ inverted positivity ’ , an inimical , pernicious , inauthenticity always threatening to return from within the true and the authentic . |
| 15 | Kent and Yorkshire even refused to recruit from outside of their territorial frontiers . |
| 16 | These are believed to come from beyond the Solar system , i.e. from interstellar space , the space between the stars . |
| 17 | ‘ Fascism ’ , he said , ‘ is not a creed for the smug mice who choose to emerge from under Bloomsbury tea-cosies to have a nibble at it . ’ |
| 18 | Then he said , ‘ Sheet , ’ softly , and Trent , forced to watch from between the leaves , saw him shake the water out of his pistol . |
| 19 | It is a sorry state of affairs when Blackburn Rovers are allowed to snatch from beneath your noses Alan Shearer , the most promising centre forward in the country . |
| 20 | The white ground has the effect of making light seem to emanate from within pictures like the great Picardy Coast Scene with Children — Sunrise owned by HM the Queen or A Fishmarket near Boulogne from the Yale Center for British Art . |
| 21 | In a basket scram it 's three wheel I 've had as many as a hundred and forty pound loaves in a scram to push from to Street up to Road . |
| 22 | Piaget believed that educational development had to come from within the child , through a process of building and testing hypotheses within the microworld of a child 's perceptions . |
| 23 | Where was it that you had to move from during the War ? |
| 24 | This she was required to do from behind a glass screen and , having done so , was immediately ushered out . |