Example sentences of "[adv prt] [to-vb] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A CHILDLESS woman was sacked from her job at a private hospital after she took time off to recover from the loss of surrogate twins , it was said . |
| 2 | Do you have any reminiscences of the the Great War and the way it affected , were many of the men called up to serve from the area ? |
| 3 | As he did in midweek against Wolves , Whitton stepped up to score from the spot . |
| 4 | And when they gave over I ventured back to see from the hillside , where there was some cover . |
| 5 | ‘ The dangerous dreamed melon of the sage ’ which turned out to come from the dream of Descartes . |
| 6 | Yet this paper led to our century 's great revolution in astronomy , for here an American engineer , Karl Jansky , announced his detection of ‘ static ’ , which turned out to come from the sky . |
| 7 | To my knowledge there has been no research that has set out to study from the start how far a child 's attachment to a new family or carer is impeded or not or whether ‘ the child 's personality will be damaged ’ where a birth parent or relative keeps contact whilst the child is with psychological parents . |
| 8 | But Smith admitted : ‘ We 've got three points out of four , and that 's what we set out to achieve from the first two games . |
| 9 | This is also the first time that the Under-Secretary of State , the hon. Member for Maidstone ( Miss Widdecombe ) , has been allowed out to speak from the Treasury Bench in the Chamber . |
| 10 | The first recipient of the original scholarship was Norcross Burrowes in 1880 , who went on to graduate from the Victoria University of Manchester in 1884 . |
| 11 | The were about to select from the sweet trolley when , at a nod from his mother , the proprietor dimmed the houselights and a young waitress brought in a surprise birthday cake , the reflection from the candles throwing her face into warm relief . |
| 12 | There may be a second , or even a third rabbit about to emerge from the one hole and you must be ready to ensure that no opportunities are missed . |
| 13 | Although the quantity of its output so far may not satisfy some observers , there is every reason to believe that , over the next year , preparers , auditors and users will be suffering from indigestion as a result of the material about to emerge from the pipeline . |
| 14 | It was as he was about to emerge from the far end of the wood that the figure on the ground brought him to a standstill . |
| 15 | The abbeys and priories I passed slumbered gently in the lee of fresh green hills , unaware of the destruction about to crawl from the hellish pit of Henry 's lusts . |
| 16 | Brazil had only five cases of infection but the real fear was that cholera was about to spread from the Peruvian into the Brazilian Amazonian river system . |
| 17 | Sensing that the old woman was about to rise from the bench , the cat jumped from her lap and stood by her side . |
| 18 | This is usually a sure sign that she is about to quote from the collected works of Old Mother Walsh , and this , indeed , is what she did : ‘ Shoes are remarkable , warm , bright and neat . |
| 19 | Theo was about to travel from The Hague to Etten , en route for a new post in Paris , and Vincent pressed him to ‘ leave the train ’ on the second leg of his journey and stay with him for a day or two . |
| 20 | The cutting went on to quote from the review , which had certainly been unusually savage : ‘ puerile nonsense ’ and ‘ unmitigated twaddle ’ were two of the phrases Sykes had used . |