Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [vb past] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , clicking his heels together , he turned on his short legs and marched from the room . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's enough , ’ she whispered , looking away from his intense stare in case he read the truth in her eyes and recoiled from it . |
| 3 | She threw her shawl around her shoulders and hurried from the house . |
| 4 | She kissed him lightly on the lips and rose from the bed to get dressed . |
| 5 | I lit the models and drew from them until I was happy with the composition . |
| 6 | As the train was approaching the director 's station , he rose to his feet and drew from his pocket a visiting card bearing the name Dwerringhouse which he gave to his fellow traveller . |
| 7 | During the work , Mr Flaherty touched some live equipment carrying 11,000 volts and died from the injuries he received . |
| 8 | In addition they had two camel guns , small cannons which could be mounted on saddles and fired from the backs of camels ; for the circumstances these had been mounted on the back of a plush sofa which had been recovered from the rampart where it had served during the rains . |
| 9 | Robyn gritted her teeth and refrained from answering — she needed all her powers of concentration to stop herself from slipping . |
| 10 | As a result of over investment in the Japanese aphrodisiac market , the Maharajah fell upon hard times and suffered from a chronic liquidity crisis . |
| 11 | motor vehicles owned by the Forestry Commission or by local authorities and used from time to time for the purpose of fighting fires ; |
| 12 | Their successors , the Bronze Age miners , regularly rounded off a busy day 's metalworking ( which included making hoops for the new fangled wooden casks and vats ) with stimulating liquors brewed in splendid bronze cauldrons and quaffed from decorated pottery beakers … |
| 13 | George Bower first examined its possibilities and lowered from the top to a distinctive ledge beneath the steepest section . |
| 14 | The muddle was such that the welcoming committee threw away their lists of expected arrivals and started from scratch . |
| 15 | If managers say that they gain their vision and their pragmatic skill informally and from diverse sources , if they see their own development as something which took many years and came from a wide range of contexts , it is unlikely that a short-term substitute can be found which will fit into either the narrow limits of brief in-service training courses , year-long secondments or part-time study in higher education . |
| 16 | All who are engaged in intra-EC trade must now show thereon the total value of all goods dispatched to other EC customers and received from other EC suppliers in the special boxes provided on the return form . |
| 17 | On Monday and Tuesday , however , the government 's forces in the capital disintegrated as soldiers in the garrison ignored orders and streamed from the barracks to fraternize with civilian demonstrators . |
| 18 | As the fire brigade sped to the scene in Derwentwater Road , Julie lowered her daughter into the hands of neighbours and jumped from a ledge above the front door injuring her ankle . |
| 19 | When he had strength enough he turned his face into his arms and hid from the light . |
| 20 | Then she burst into tears and rushed from the chamber . |
| 21 | The rain beat against the peeling door and the uncurtained windows and dripped from the still bloody lambskin that swung spreadeagled from the washing line . |
| 22 | Once assured of their willingness to adopt the patriot cause the ‘ people ’ turned to their natural , local leaders and disappeared from the stage except for a few significant reappearances and a few protests against ‘ the rich ’ . |
| 23 | He had committed ‘ grave errors ’ in political decisions and strayed from the socialist road . |
| 24 | Economics ( and the fear of being bored witless for the third time in 10 days ) demanded that I , and my son , only got to the first two matches and watched from the Kop . |
| 25 | Jonathan put up his hands and stepped from behind his desk . |
| 26 | Surely no tide could have them if they clasped hands and fled from it side by side . |
| 27 | And so saying she gathered up her shawl , adjusted her mittens and scuttled from the room . |
| 28 | In her most recent show , d2 , Butcher 's dancers wore plain black or white trousers and T-shirts and danced from the stage up on to catwalks ; architectural drawings were projected and electronic music accompanied them . |
| 29 | He collected their drinks and turned from the bar where he had been at the centre of a laughing group of men who frequently glanced at her curiously . |
| 30 | Weathering of rocks by rain water , by frost , by chemical action which is then leaked into rivers and carried from rivers into |