Example sentences of "[verb] from a [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 | But a nice young man who wanted a bit of chivvying from a jolly girl-friend . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | List ten things that you can buy from a vending machine . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Jan Fischer produced a transporter that might well have come from a professional machine shop . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Those who have been successful in their applications to the GEP have come from a wide range of backgrounds . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The glass firm said all the suspect bottles had come from a new lightweight bottle-making process which had now been halted . |
| 19 | You do risk crackles and pops , but many will have come from a good home — and you can always get them washed . |
| 20 | One night at a Sandinista party high on the mountains outside of Jinotega , I found out the advise had first come from a certain political adviser with offices in Old Compton Street , London . |
| 21 | Some scholars think that the infancy stories in Luke 's Gospel come from a separate source . |
| 22 | The South Americans have come from a five-nation tournament in Hamburg , where they beat Spain 2-1 and lost to Australia 3-2 . |
| 23 | Its name come from a Gaelic word Lagh which meant Law — Mountain of Lawgiving . |
| 24 | In role the teacher enters as a traveller to tell them that she has come from a neighbouring village , where Roman soldiers are delivering a decree that all will have to pay a new tax ; the traveller has to go on her way . |
| 25 | Those who have come from a joint family in India , Pakistan or Bangladesh to live alone with their husbands in Britain suffer most . |
| 26 | The most elaborate shells in the collections held in the British Museum ( Natural History ) have come from a sub-littoral population of Rhoscolyn ( Anglesey ) . |
| 27 | She broke down and wept bitterly when Wexford told her that that her husband 's supplementary income had come from a criminal source . |
| 28 | Later it was revealed that the money had come from a different source . |
| 29 | I knew so little about who had held them and how they had got out , it seemed as if they had come from a different world , a different time . |
| 30 | She claimed to have come from a different school but her story somehow did n't ring true . |