Example sentences of "[vb past] from a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inside , the venue is dark , sweaty , with a pounding house beat from a rota of name DJs such as Alfredo , Danny Rampling and Andy Weatherall . |
| 2 | Sterling also rallied from a low of $1.4767 to close at $1.4825 , two thirds of a cent lower on the day . |
| 3 | But it also rallied from a low of 2,851.0 to close just 2.8 down on the day at 2,861.1 , with just over 700 million shares changing hands . |
| 4 | To get a replacement kidney , patients must either find somebody willing to part with one of their 's or get one transplanted from a donor who has just died . |
| 5 | The pellet entered her nose , bounced from a bone and ended less than a millimetre from the optic nerve of her right eye . |
| 6 | John D. Rockefeller rose from a clerk in a commission merchant 's house to become one of the world 's richest men . |
| 7 | At the latter , over the third quarter of the eighteenth century , slavers rose from a quarter to a third of the merchant fleet . |
| 8 | Unemployment rose from a level of about 10% ( which had been maintained throughout most of the '20s ) to a high of 23% in 1932 . |
| 9 | On a deeper level , it will be shown that the case for the traditional view of the Muftilik-essentially that it rose from a position of relative unimportance to become , in the time of Suleyman , the principal office in the learned hierarchy-rests largely on premises conditioned by what one might call the " hierarchical " viewpoint . |
| 10 | A voice rose from a heap of clothes on the pavement , accompanied by the stench of alcohol-laden breath , a voice begging for a drink or money to buy a drink . |
| 11 | Warm scents rose from a honeysuckle hedge at Monboddo , the much-changed home of a man who , according to Sir Walter Scott , went out at night with a candle to inspect his turnips growing in the fields ; who , hating to sit behind a horse 's backside , would not travel in a carriage and therefore — he was in his eighties — rode to London on horseback ; who took a cold bath every day and damaged his children 's health by insisting they did the same ; and who , when in residence at Edinburgh , gave dinner parties at which his wine-flagons were wreathed in garlands of roses . |
| 12 | Following the first oil shock , inflation rose from a figure of about 5 per cent in both countries in the early 1970s to an annual average of 16 per cent in Britain and 19 per cent in Spain in the period 1973–8 . |
| 13 | At secondary level , enrolments have declined steadily since the beginning of the 1980s , while drop-outs rose from a low of 9.5 per cent in 1976 to 16.3 per cent in 1987 and repetition from 5.3 per cent in 1975 to a high of 13.5 per cent in 1985 . |
| 14 | Superheat surged from the quadruple nozzles , liquefying the flesh and fat of the nearest targets — boiling those liquids so that greasy steam rose from a pool of slumped steaming bones . |
| 15 | The Campbell gestured to the remains of a terraced street which rose from a wasteland of redevelopment . |
| 16 | Mrs Langley rose from a chair by the fire and Alexandra was aware of her daughters and someone else on a sofa in the great square bay window ; and even as Mrs Langley was greeting her she could hear Rose say clearly , ‘ Well , whatever else she has n't got , she certainly has elegant clothes , ’ and Alexandra , stung out of all terror quite suddenly , said crisply , ‘ I will tell my aunt how much you admire her taste . |
| 17 | Nobody showed any surprise at Dinah 's arrival ; the assembly rose from a table spread with books and slates ; the tutor , the governess , and the pale-faced children . |
| 18 | A lone horseman appeared in a vast landscape , a shot rang out in the badlands , dust rose from a wagon train . |
| 19 | From 1953 to 1964 the total fertility rate in England and Wales rose from a nadir of 2.14 in 1951 to its zenith of 2.94 in 1964 . |
| 20 | Social problems are crowding in on a city where the body-count for murders rose from a record 1,905 in 1989 to a new record of more than 2,200 in 1990 . |
| 21 | Total unleaded petrol rose from a market share of 7.7 per cent in January 1987 to 32 per cent by the beginning of 1991 . |
| 22 | On yesterday 's new grey market , the shares rose from an issue price of 585p to 612p . |
| 23 | Ten miles distant , Sandweg church loomed into view ; it rose from an ocean of grain like a vast liner in the doldrums . |
| 24 | Embarrassed , she drew from a shelf a book on Møn . |
| 25 | When she got back to the kitchen , Finn was reading an old newspaper , seated on the table and eating dry chunks of bread gouged from a loaf in the crumb of which his fingers had left grey prints . |
| 26 | In a list of favourite boys ' books compiled by Edward Salmon in 1888 , Kingston came second to Dickens , and Salmon observed , ‘ Mr Kingston is Captain Marryat transformed from a novelist into a juvenile romanticist ’ . |
| 27 | These ranged from a peak flow meter and a sphygmomanometer to oxygen and a defibrillator . |
| 28 | Benefits realised varied from site to site , but ranged from a doubling of throughput per week at a cost more than halved , through to a headcount reduction of one third . |
| 29 | Her literary endeavours ranged from a play , White Lies ( 1903 ) , to the mammoth task of editing her father 's Collected Works ( 1910–15 ) in twenty-four volumes . |
| 30 | During the trial , the mean fibre score in the diet group rose to 33.6 and over the three years for which reliable results are available , compliance in taking the high fibre diets seemed good with very little ‘ drift ’ in mean values that ranged from a minimum of mean ( SEM ) 31.0 ( 3.7 points ) at 36 months to a maximum of 325.5 ( 2.2 ) at 12 months . |