Example sentences of "[vb past] from [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 A red glow radiated from the depths of the shaft .
2 Milky liquid oozed from the stalks .
3 His eyes were round and staring , and a thin , bloodied foam seeped from the corners of his distorted lips .
4 At Thirsk a lamb with a broken leg had been put up for sale , and transit offences to cattle and sheep rose from no convictions in 1990 to 15 last year .
5 An audible sigh of relief rose from the ranks of mainstream macroeconomists .
6 Tyson , the man who rose from the ghettos of New York to the pinnacle of boxing success , had his world destroyed when he was judged guilty of violating a beauty queen whom he was convicted of luring to his room and raping .
7 The lower slopes , smoky purple with heather , incised by green-banked burns , and in this season splashed with the intense russet of dead bracken , rose from the woods surrounding Balmoral .
8 The stout cylinders rose from the decks of Flettner 's amazing rotor ships to about two-thirds the height of the masts on a sailing vessel .
9 Laughter and a smell of cut grass rose from the lawns , and in the distance children played tennis .
10 Although they moved stealthily on Devraux 's instructions , great flocks of black parrots rose from the tops of the trees as they passed below , darkening the sky and filling the air with the sustained applause of their flapping wings .
11 I was an innocent let loose in an exotic , heraldic kingdom of mythical beasts and grotesque hermaphroditic figures that rose from the copulations of the kings and their sister-queens .
12 His flatmate had a mistress in Hampstead and so was seldom there , but the flat was squalid and the scents of garlic and oregano rose from the kitchens below .
13 As the last of the militiamen were swallowed up by the forest a great roar of delight rose from the gipsies and they crowded around Noah to congratulate him on the unexpected victory he had scored over the Burford magistrate .
14 BUDAPEST — The Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party , extinguished at the weekend by its congress , rose from the ashes yesterday in Budapest 's communist heartland , the industrial district of Csepel , Imre Karacs writes .
15 ICM — the newcomer that rose from the ashes of Marplan — is owned by its management .
16 Well , time moves on and Maxwell rose from the ashes of this setback , but it is remarkable that the telling verdict of the DTI inquiry should have been so utterly dismissed by the risk-assessors of so many banks .
17 Halfway across , as the Channel became La Manche , language reassembled itself , rose from the waves and became French .
18 Heat rose from the depths , and every smooth cold surface was damp with condensation .
19 Then he felt the floor tremble beneath his feet , and a deep throated rumble rose from the bowels of the building .
20 A little later , as filmmakers began to expend the medium 's storytelling capacities , they drew from the techniques developed for the magic lantern or diorama and audiences saw a woman interrupting her husband in the act of kissing the maid , or a miller grappling with chimney sweeps in front of a windmill .
21 Nor did the cheering cease when the runners got down to business and the three-mile race commenced , for at almost every fence Arkle and Mill House produced leaps which drew from the spectators whoops of appreciation .
22 People followed jobs and moved from the regions of economic decline to the more buoyant areas , typically the outer parts of Greater London and selected centres in the Home Counties .
23 Historians have indi-cated a ‘ structural weakness ’ in the Angevin Empire which stemmed from the obligations of its rulers to perform homage to the French crown from 1151 onwards for most of their continental dominions .
24 The archosaurs stemmed from the thecodonts , an order with teeth set in sockets rather than being welded to the jaw as with modern-day lizards .
25 A potential source of an unfair offence stemmed from the pupils ' position as ‘ pupils ’ as opposed to ‘ teachers ’ where , by definition , teachers hold the ultimate authority .
26 He added : ‘ At the last election the Tories shouted from the rooftops that with them in power there would be no tax increase .
27 I shouted from the depths of my hurt .
28 Other nomads erupted from the deserts of Arabia in the seventh century ; within a hundred years their armies had reached the shores of the Atlantic and the borders of China but , in fascinating contrast to the Huns and Mongols , the Arabs created a new and enduring civilization and founded a faith which today numbers six hundred million adherents .
29 During the whole of the 1980s , refugees fled from the wars in Chad and in Ethiopia .
30 He argues that a demand which emanated from the earnings of export staples became itself the driving force behind even greater efforts to balance the increasing import of desired English manufactured goods .
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