Example sentences of "[verb] from the [noun] " 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 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 .
6 Within minutes of disembarking from the boats and starting the search we all found to our disappointment that the good weather still had n't dried out the long grass of the islands , and we were all soon soaking .
7 Gallonage costs are based on the lowest figure , and up to 160 gallons may be mixed from the 20kg pack in a fish-only set-up .
8 In two rounds of sprinting heats on the previous day , the wheat had been sorted from the chaff .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 Once the engine was exposed on both sides , hawsers were placed around it and it was then lifted from the hole .
12 The other classic Ce Ce Rogers anthem lifted from the vaults and dusted down for rerelease .
13 BORIS MAVRA was lifted from the Oxford University boat , consumed by exhaustion .
14 Romany washed the tea glasses in a bucket of water lifted from the river .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 Flowered Up 's next single , ‘ Take It ’ , includes lyrics lifted from the soundtrack of Rude Boy , The Clash 's on-the-road movie .
18 St Agatha was lifted from the sofa and stationed at the window in a bridal veil , to the electrification of passers-by .
19 Once it has been lifted from the frames it will be offered to the NRM who have expressed interest in it for a projected display .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 Turning to her companion , she held out her arms to be lifted from the saddle .
24 It was a load lifted from the heart , a load we had not even known weighed us down .
25 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 .
26 A painting by Brueghel the elder was lifted from the Courtauld a few years back .
27 The spirit in the boy lifted from the bones , from the flesh , through the furs .
28 Her eyes lifted from the books before her on the desk to the tall , powerful figure standing just a few feet away .
29 With the workman 's help she was lifted from the boat and taken into the palazzo .
30 The blankets are folded back and the printing paper slowly lifted from the plate .
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