Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long black hair tumbled from the top of the boy 's head . |
| 2 | The prince limped from the polo field at Smith 's Lawn , Windsor , yesterday and lay in agony on the sidelines after straining his back . |
| 3 | She felt the steel strength of his arms around her and her skin quivered from the warmth of his breath on her cheek before he released her as if she might contaminate him . |
| 4 | This technique arose from the inability of a child to perform the ‘ rituals ’ of the adult psychoanalytical tradition in couch-based sessions of verbal exposition . |
| 5 | The right of the pursuers to rescind the contract arose from the principle of mutuality and the materiality of the defenders ' breach , but the intention of the defenders is also relevant . |
| 6 | as if in reply an almost palpable sulphurous wave arose from the dog and eddied around me . |
| 7 | Technically , it is on commercial grounds , and they can not recoup the money made from the everyday operation of the reactor to pay for the refurbishment of the reactor , that is true . |
| 8 | A further difficulty arose from the departure of a large number of middle-class families from the Belfast area to neighbouring dormitory towns , a migratory pattern in line with changes in the demography of British cities generally for the last two decades or so . |
| 9 | My impression was that the members of the GPB were very concerned about the matter , but unfortunately no formal policy decision arose from the meeting and no action plan was devised . |
| 10 | The decision arose from the case of Nancy Curzon , who was allowed to die on Dec. 26 after a Missouri court authorized the removal of her feeding tube [ see p. 37911 ] . |
| 11 | The sum of £250 had been borrowed from Joseph Barnard , the treasurer , to make good the actual deficiency which ‘ had not arisen from any defect or negligence whatever in the management of the institution , but on the contrary arose from the great success of the Infirmary and the high reputation it had acquired , so that the number of patients had increased rapidly ’ . |
| 12 | No sound of any kind rose from the hot deserted streets — no traffic noise , no hustle of people , no children , no animals . |
| 13 | An early-morning mist hung over Branchester , the cathedral rising up like some ghostly fairy-tale palace while cobwebs glistened on iron railings and moisture dripped from the branches of the lime trees that fringed the roads . |
| 14 | Less than a minute later noise erupted from the drawing room and excited voices drifted down the hall . |
| 15 | Most of her life was spent pushing barges loaded with silt dredged from the narrow canals around Birmingham . |
| 16 | Some of these are essentially historical : the interest developed in part as a reaction or antidote to Chomsky 's treatment of language as an abstract device , or mental ability , dissociable from the uses , users and functions of language ( an abstraction that Chomsky in part drew from the post-Bloomfieldian structuralism that predominated immediately before transformational generative grammar ) . |
| 17 | One interesting source of feedback arose from the EIS survey of its members in Further Education on the operation of the National Certificate : the survey was conducted during November and December 1987 . |
| 18 | Imperial College arose from the unification of three main entities — the Royal College of Chemistry , the School of Mines and the City and Guilds Institute . |
| 19 | Explosions : red flames and chunks of rock spouted from the slopes where the Counsellors had been standing . |
| 20 | There were reports that Iraq had received another Russian system , the SS-21 , though specialist circles are uncertain about this and arrival was not independently confirmed — perhaps the confusion arose from the last digits of the SS-12 having been inverted . |
| 21 | The light swished from the back-cloth . |
| 22 | The indictment arose from the allegation by federal prosecutors that he had accepted $100,000 in bribes from military contractors and lobbyists . |
| 23 | Lucy Keane , defending , said the tragedy arose from the mother 's unhappy childhood and adolescence and the unhappy relationship she had which resulted in the birth of her son . |
| 24 | The customs duty source of revenue arose from the adoption of the CET . |
| 25 | A degree of light emanated from the silently hurtling water , which she felt as a force urging her forward , as though she were in its grip and swept along with it . |
| 26 | The slender figure rose from the chair , and flung back its veil . |
| 27 | As they entered the yard a figure rose from the side of a pile of tins lying on the unpaved part of the ground , in his hand what looked like a piece of iron guttering . |
| 28 | Only a murmur rose from the town below me . |
| 29 | Above , where hot lava erupted from the crust to be chilled by cold sea-water are purple , bulbous pillow lavas . |
| 30 | Thick , sluggish blood seeped from the great jagged holes where his arms and legs had been and , with them , a watery pus . |