Example sentences of "[verb] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently the profile was taken straight from an old late-'50s Gold Top belonging to Paul Chandler , while the Austin Special 's neck was lifted from a pre-CBS Strat . |
| 2 | Venables was lifted from a precarious 30-degree ice slope , by an Indian army helicopter pilot flying perilously close to his aircraft 's maximum altitude limit . |
| 3 | When the restriction was lifted from the Senior Chief Inspector 's annual report about examining the effect on maintained schools of local authorities ' financial and finance-linked resources , it became a report about national quality . |
| 4 | It ran across three weekly issues , and was blatantly lifted from the big city papers and radio , but the editorial comment was strictly home town . |
| 5 | Next , a story lifted from the Daily Mail about Professor Jerrold Petrofsky 's work in Dayton , Ohio , and the hope it gave to the paralysed PC Philip Olds . |
| 6 | INXS : ‘ Taste It ’ third single lifted from the Antipodean funk rockers ' Number One album ‘ Welcome To Wherever You Are ’ . |
| 7 | The interim dividend is being lifted from an adjusted 2.7p to 3.02p on June 18 . |
| 8 | His shop was in the merchants ' quarter of the city — a maze of buildings which had been divided and sub-divided , so great was the demand for space , which lay within the strictly enforced boundaries of the streets which radiated from the Golden Yurt like the spokes of a wheel . |
| 9 | The paid friend may well act from the impure motive that ‘ the customer is always right ’ ! |
| 10 | If a tear develops , peel from the opposite corner and work towards the damage . |
| 11 | But a nice young man who wanted a bit of chivvying from a jolly girl-friend . |
| 12 | A survey of 35 countries with interim reporting regulations indicated that of those requiring only semi-annual interim reports , the average maximum period permitted from the interim date to publication of the interim report was 108 days . |
| 13 | For me , going on a strict vegan diet where all animal products were banned , where there was no place for tea or coffee , where even fish , eggs , salt and sugar were forbidden , was like leaping from a warm bed into the icy seas of Antarctica . |
| 14 | The ‘ rule of thirds ’ has been treated as the standard method of division , but other arrangements were sometimes made which might reflect the contractor 's view of the likely profits to be won from a particular campaign . |
| 15 | About half of these had been won from the moderate middle-class parties and were augmented by the vote of about 6 million new voters , half of whom were young people voting for the first time , and the other half of whom were people who up to now had been too weary , cynical or lacking in hope to vote at all . |
| 16 | More often than not Ma starts me off only to leave me stranded above the waterdragon with my–backside wedged into the Young Person 's Patent Toilet Seat Adaptor ( another trophy won from the WI jumble by Pa ) . |
| 17 | List ten things that you can buy from a vending machine . |
| 18 | Once cut , however , they should be treated as any other cold meat and kept under refrigeration , usually with the cut end covered — do not buy from a cut salame which is not refrigerated . |
| 19 | Jan Fischer produced a transporter that might well have come from a professional machine shop . |
| 20 | My father was a missionary had come from a dusty little town in South Africa , I 've got many wonderful experiences in my life , I 've had experience of heart transplant . |
| 21 | The material with which a major museum has to deal , both within its own collections and on offer to it , will have come from a wide variety of sources . |
| 22 | Those who have been successful in their applications to the GEP have come from a wide range of backgrounds . |
| 23 | Although much research , comment and controversy have focussed on the population of North African origin , immigrants in fact come from a wide variety of sources both within and outside Europe . |
| 24 | Despite the fact that he had come from a long line of soldier forebears , even the combination of breeding , upbringing and training no longer made it easy for him to bear the tedium of army life with good grace . |
| 25 | They have come from a war-ravaged country where their parents or friends have thought the best thing to do is to get them on a plane to some safer place . |
| 26 | I stopped wearing Tampax ( cotton wool pricks ) , and I stopped eating meat in case the chunk of sizzling corpse I was about to sit down to had come from a male animal . |
| 27 | Had the plea come from a budding starlet or perhaps an Italian supermodel , Jagger would have tripped over his lips in an effort to scrawl his name — and perhaps his phone number — in her book for posterity . |
| 28 | Most notably , the Spanish strategy was being implemented by a modernizing , socially reformist government , while in Britain the increasing pressures on the railways in recent years have come from a radical Conservative government hostile to the public sector in principle . |
| 29 | The glass firm said all the suspect bottles had come from a new lightweight bottle-making process which had now been halted . |
| 30 | You do risk crackles and pops , but many will have come from a good home — and you can always get them washed . |