Example sentences of "[verb] from [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 On 28 July 1930 I disembarked from the Sorrento at Constanza in the Black Sea .
2 As they disembarked from the jet , they were strangers .
3 It was dominated from the start by Marxism , proclaiming the industrial proletariat as saviours of the human race .
4 Instead , he proposes a new domestic freedom : ‘ You must leave your surroundings sketchy , unfinished , so that you are never contained , never confined , never dominated from the outside ! ’
5 On the street outside the Marriott , in the rather rum section of town the locals affectionately have dubbed Pigalle Place , we had encountered Malgosia , a twenty-three-year-old prostitute , disembarking from a car .
6 We had arrived at Orange a week previously , and after disembarking from the coach had been ordered into the barrack rooms by our Corporals , who were waiting outside on the parade ground .
7 To defend their installed bases , equipment manufacturers , Input says , are responding to the trend by offering a growing portfolio of productised services which can be picked and mixed from a catalogue of traditional and new services .
8 Inside , the venue is dark , sweaty , with a pounding house beat from a rota of name DJs such as Alfredo , Danny Rampling and Andy Weatherall .
9 In two rounds of sprinting heats on the previous day , the wheat had been sorted from the chaff .
10 Men descended to the galleries on ladders , often made from the timbers of wrecked ships , and ore was hauled to the surface in iron buckets called ‘ kibbles ’ , and sorted from the rock by women and children .
11 Yet when he made to take a line of stones he had surrounded from the board , the boy placed his hand over Tuan 's , stopping him , lifting his hand so that he might study the position , his face creased into a frown , as if trying to take in what he had done wrong .
12 Like an orange lifted from a fruit-bowl
13 If he needs lifting , he is likely to need a commode , unless there is enough room around the toilet to allow for him to be lifted from a wheelchair to the toilet seat .
14 He had been lifted from a detention cell and given the job of English teacher because the Colonel liked a boy who could smile into the face of an interrogator who wielded a rubber truncheon .
15 A SCHOOLBOY had to be lifted from a ravine after plunging 100 ft on a four-wheeled motor buggy and breaking his leg .
16 The mist had lifted from a countryside now hard and black under an iron frost .
17 If you are a gold fanatic , keep a look out for Sotheby 's mountain of coins , ingots and doubloons lifted from a shipwreck off Montevideo , Uruguay .
18 Almost concurrently came the report of Geoffrey Boycott having his golf clubs lifted from a train and chasing after the thief as though in pursuit of one of his own runs .
19 Once the engine was exposed on both sides , hawsers were placed around it and it was then lifted from the hole .
20 Romany washed the tea glasses in a bucket of water lifted from the river .
21 With a fair amount of jiggling , the big end caps were all parted from the con-rods and the crankshaft was lifted from the crankcase .
22 It was around fifteen minutes before the combined efforts of four policemen and two ambulance men succeeded and the driver was lifted from the wreck .
23 Flowered Up 's next single , ‘ Take It ’ , includes lyrics lifted from the soundtrack of Rude Boy , The Clash 's on-the-road movie .
24 St Agatha was lifted from the sofa and stationed at the window in a bridal veil , to the electrification of passers-by .
25 Large , brightly coloured and apparently celebratory , they have been developed from the découpages of Matisse , but are , on closer inspection , altogether less tasteful , with their short , smutty messages lifted from the scribble of a toilet door .
26 However , remember that you can clean the ball not only when lifted from the green , but also in the circumstances spelled out in Rule 23 .
27 Julie was awake when she was collected from the recovery room and was distressed by the sensation of being lifted from the theatre trolley into bed .
28 Turning to her companion , she held out her arms to be lifted from the saddle .
29 It was a load lifted from the heart , a load we had not even known weighed us down .
30 The RNLI 's new dock and boat hoist came into use at the Poole depot in early June , enabling lifeboats to be lifted from the water and positioned anywhere in the yard for storage or inspection and work on underwater areas .
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