Example sentences of "[vb past] from [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | A lone horseman appeared in a vast landscape , a shot rang out in the badlands , dust rose from a wagon train . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | On yesterday 's new grey market , the shares rose from an issue price of 585p to 612p . |
| 38 | Ten miles distant , Sandweg church loomed into view ; it rose from an ocean of grain like a vast liner in the doldrums . |
| 39 | At last a long despairing cry rose from the back of his throat and screamed shatteringly across the churchyard as he threw the baton away and clung sobbing to the angel . |
| 40 | A heron rose from the river and flapped away into a clump of tall trees in the distance . |
| 41 | Sam Maggott 's head rose from the debris of his office . |
| 42 | At last she rose from the water , wrapping a towel about her damp body as she walked to her room , mentally weighed down by her thoughts , and physically wearied , too . |
| 43 | The bird , which Gould called the harlequin bronzewing , and which later became known as the flock pigeon , rose from the water beside him and alighted on the ground 40 yards away , just within reach of Gould 's expert aim . |
| 44 | As we walked , grouse rose from the heather , calling out in alarm , . |
| 45 | There rose , and she looked and looked with her needles suspended , there curled up off the floor of the mind , rose from the lake of one 's being , a mist , a bride to meet her lover . |
| 46 | Mountains on the other side of the valley rose from the mist like islands , and here and there flecks of cloud , as pale and fine as sea-spray , trailed across their sombre , wooded slopes . |
| 47 | Sure enough , in the morning , a small round table holding an appetising array of titbits rose from the floor a minute or two before Susan and Michael had finished their exercise routine . |
| 48 | She stood there until the rapturous applause died down and the peacock screen rose from the floor , hiding all behind it , then , her eyes clouded by emotional tears conjured up by the sheer beauty of what she had just witnessed , she turned blindly , colliding with a hard male body . |
| 49 | It rose from the floor , out of the tattered grey wall-to-wall carpeting … |
| 50 | It was a cold morning , and a thin jet of steam rose from the pinhole vent on the coffee cup lid . |
| 51 | He rose from the sofa and placed himself in front of a picture . |
| 52 | Mrs Sweet rose from the sofa . |
| 53 | Then she half rose from the desk , leaned across and gave me a dead fish handshake , and with a glazed stare directed somewhere over my left shoulder , she rattled out , all in one breath and with no punctuation , ‘ Thankyouverymuchforallyouhavedonegoodbye . ’ |
| 54 | He rose from the desk and came round to Duncan 's shoulder . |
| 55 | He rose from the desk and turned on another light in the room . |
| 56 | A peculiar head slowly rose from the hole and peered into the room with patient animal scrutiny . |
| 57 | When he was certain it was out of range , Adam rose from the trench and made his way towards the hangars , alert to any further helicopters being readied . |
| 58 | The girl in the mack was scrambling again through the puddles in the dirt of the wreckers ' yard ; the invisible and soundless shots from out of frame felled her at a signal from Jean-Claude and the partisans rose from the auto hulks , their own guns blazing . |
| 59 | Morse waved a hand vaguely aloft , drained his glass , rose from the settee , and walked to the door . |
| 60 | The other children , my playmates , meant little to me ; so little that one day they all rose from the field and vanished , like angels . |