Example sentences of "[vb past] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Vale dominated the first 45 minutes against a Stockport side they dismissed from the second division play-off last Wednesday . |
| 3 | Thick , sluggish blood seeped from the great jagged holes where his arms and legs had been and , with them , a watery pus . |
| 4 | Direct exports by OPEC national oil companies rose from a negligible proportion of production within the area to some 50–55 per cent over the course of the 1970s . |
| 5 | Then she lit him up the stairs , and went before him into the panelled solar , where Rhodri rose from a tall chair by the fire to receive him . |
| 6 | As the two girls entered , a man rose from a deep armchair , and Sophie looked at him with interest . |
| 7 | The percentage who had seen Labour in second place rose from a mere 13 per cent in the Pre-Campaign Wave to 78 per cent in the first fortnight and 95 per cent in the second . |
| 8 | In Wellingborough the number of male boot and shoe makers rose from 613 in 1841 to 814 in 1851 and to 861 in 1861 ; female numbers rose from a mere 37 in 1841 to 473 in 1851 and to 744 a decade later . |
| 9 | Such was the rapid rate of expansion that ensued that the workforce in Britain 's mines rose from a mere 50,000 at the beginning of the nineteenth century to over 1 million on the eve of the First World War . |
| 10 | He rose from a cushioned wicker chair as soon as he saw her and came to take the tray , saying , ‘ You 're Belinda , of course . |
| 11 | The dumpy woman went bustling into a large stone flagged kitchen where a great fire flamed in an open fireplace and the smell of roasting meat rose from a thick flank of beef on a spit . |
| 12 | Inside , a grand and generous staircase rose from a pale stone flagged hall patterned with black stone diamonds . |
| 13 | Son of a postal worker and trained as a car body builder , Floirat rose from a humble upbringing to become a major industrialist nicknamed ‘ man with the golden fingers ’ for his financial expertise . |
| 14 | And in the course of each evening numbers rose from a dozen or so to a hundred , and then diminished as people wandered away to supper . |
| 15 | In the presence of H pylori , the median G17 concentration rose from a basal value of 6 pmol/l ( <2.4–25 ) to 43 pmol/l ( 9–95 ) ( p<0.0001 ) at 20 minute postprandially , and after eradication rose from <2.4 pmol/l ( <2.4-23 ) to 17 pmol/l ( <2.4–52 ) ( p<0.0001 ) . |
| 16 | The steam rose from the cavernous sink and the furniture loomed at us like shapes in a jungle night . |
| 17 | ‘ It was banked and a pillar of smoke rose from the right wing . |
| 18 | Screams of pain and ecstasy rose from the wounded man . |
| 19 | It had been a hot summer , and dust rose from the rough flags as they settled . |
| 20 | Edward II 's cousin and the most powerful of his earls , he rose from the middle ranks of the gentry into the upper ranks of the baronage . |
| 21 | Few , if any , rose from the lowest rank , but nonetheless there was a career path open to prison governors to progress through the intermediate rank of Assistant Commissioner to a full Commissionership . |
| 22 | He rose from the ridiculous chair and made his way carefully down the crowded row , responding politely to those who greeted him by name , noting with carefully repressed surprise that two of the women who gave him private little smiles were seated next to each other , friends who had no idea they had something more than friendship in common . |
| 23 | Steam rose from the scant grass they lay on , from their bodies and from the concrete of the pillbox . |
| 24 | No sound of any kind rose from the hot deserted streets — no traffic noise , no hustle of people , no children , no animals . |
| 25 | Ochre dust rose from the blazing pavements . |
| 26 | She rose from the furry white armchair which he was sure was her choice . |
| 27 | He rose from the muddy ground and began to run towards the woodland . |
| 28 | It rose from the demolished vastness of the old Army Clothing Depot . |
| 29 | She rose from the stiff armchair . |
| 30 | Amun , " the hidden one " , was an early deity , later described in the creation legend of Hermopolis as a formless god who rose from the primeval ocean . |