Example sentences of "[verb] from the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The other classic Ce Ce Rogers anthem lifted from the vaults and dusted down for rerelease .
3 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 .
4 The spirit in the boy lifted from the bones , from the flesh , through the furs .
5 Her eyes lifted from the books before her on the desk to the tall , powerful figure standing just a few feet away .
6 Jack Heinz and I thought as one : that if the drawings could be housed in a Portman Square modernised for fire and climate control , and have the financial burden lifted from the shoulders of the RIBA , this would allow for spatial manoeuvre in Portland Place .
7 It was as if a great burden had been lifted from the shoulders of the people .
8 Nothing should be done to further trade with the Iranian Government until that fatwa is lifted from the shoulders of Salman Rushdie .
9 This was worse , with impossible moves on gritty walls and creaks and trickles from the cliffs of ice .
10 A red glow radiated from the depths of the shaft .
11 Labour MP Miss Hilary Armstrong and the Liberal Mr Matthew Taylor have already agreed to speak , but a reply is still awaited from the Conservatives , says Mrs Robinson , who wants to put Darlington 's political contenders in the hot seat with a similar local meeting .
12 In so far as the interview is a critique of Thatcherism — and that is not as far as might have been supposed from the headlines in yesterday 's papers — it is misplaced .
13 Bring history leaping from the pages of those boring , old textbooks — Battle of Hastings , 1066 — Magna Carta , 1215 — Great Fire of London , 1666 .
14 Leaping from the cabs , Rocky and his fellow trucker ran to the back of their rigs and threw open the rear doors .
15 In these circumstances , rape by a husband might very well be thought to be more disturbing in its effects than rape by that classic stranger leaping from the shadows .
16 Undertakings to be won from the lairds binding themselves to undertake nothing punitive against tenants seen at meetings . ’
17 In 22 of the 40 seats Labour won from the Tories , the swing in the constituency was higher than the regional average , and there was a significant cluster of above 6 per cent swings .
18 Groups of GPs will negotiate and buy from the hospitals of their choice the ordinary range of services their patients need .
19 Working class intellectuals have often come from the ranks of printers in the past , but it is rare to find one such who like Jean Henderson was a woman .
20 Maj. Joseph Michel François , acknowledged by diplomats to have been a ringleader , insisted to foreign journalists that the main impetus had come from the ranks of the 8,000-strong army who feared the growing influence of Aristide 's new foreign-trained 50-member presidential guard .
21 Also , their inmates may often have come from the ranks of the noble and landowning class .
22 I do n't I thin I think there 's probably a lot lot less sexism just in terms of I think we 've won their respect by you know and and certainly when th they did n't want us to picket in the beginning , and then over the months really the women have done quite a lot of successful picketing when we 've been asked and and we 've staged quite big pickets quite a lot of you know the big pickets were really organized and the rallies have been organized by us and really sort of quite a lot of the input into into the strike I think has come from the women 's support group in in quite a unique way .
23 Support was supposed to have come from the labelmates Thrill Kill Kult , but they pulled out following an incident in Germany , when Kult singer Frantic had had his leg broken in three places after being attacked onstage by ‘ neo-nazi ’ thugs in the audience .
24 Support was supposed to have come from the labelmates Thrill Kill Kult , but they pulled out following an incident in Germany , when Kult singer Frantic had had his leg broken in three places after being attacked onstage by ‘ neo-nazi ’ thugs in the audience .
25 The vivid illustrations in the Blue Books of the 1840s could as well have come from the mines of Shropshire in 1770 .
26 Much of the spur for the tight rein which has been kept on emotion has come from the players themselves after their 10-9 victory over England at Cardiff a fortnight ago .
27 Pictures that could only have come from the Americans or the British , ’ Kragan answered warily .
28 In 1921 a report placed before the Prussian Diet revealed that of the 460,884 hectares of land purchased by the Commission up to that time , only 27.4 per cent had come from the Poles ; a staggering 72.5 per cent had been purchased by the Commission from German estate owners .
29 However stable isotope analysis shows that all the fragments belong to one piece of marble , demonstrating the overall integrity of the piece , and also that the marble is likely to have come from the quarries at Carrara in Tuscany .
30 And , the most tremendous teaching of this , of of the whole world have come from the lips of Jesus .
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