Example sentences of "[vb pp] from a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To defend their installed bases , equipment manufacturers , Input says , are responding to the trend by offering a growing portfolio of productised services which can be picked and mixed from a catalogue of traditional and new services . |
| 2 | Like an orange lifted from a fruit-bowl |
| 3 | If he needs lifting , he is likely to need a commode , unless there is enough room around the toilet to allow for him to be lifted from a wheelchair to the toilet seat . |
| 4 | He had been lifted from a detention cell and given the job of English teacher because the Colonel liked a boy who could smile into the face of an interrogator who wielded a rubber truncheon . |
| 5 | A SCHOOLBOY had to be lifted from a ravine after plunging 100 ft on a four-wheeled motor buggy and breaking his leg . |
| 6 | The mist had lifted from a countryside now hard and black under an iron frost . |
| 7 | If you are a gold fanatic , keep a look out for Sotheby 's mountain of coins , ingots and doubloons lifted from a shipwreck off Montevideo , Uruguay . |
| 8 | Almost concurrently came the report of Geoffrey Boycott having his golf clubs lifted from a train and chasing after the thief as though in pursuit of one of his own runs . |
| 9 | Like a cigarette lifted from an ashtray |
| 10 | Although the viewer 's eye is won from a consideration of material possessions to the contemplation of transcendent values , it is ‘ things ’ themselves which , properly understood , call his attention to this higher truth . |
| 11 | For the discussion today we are using examples that have come from a test version of the Derby files . |
| 12 | Susie had come from a village ten miles from the Oxfordshire market town in which the school was placed : her previous village primary school had had two teachers ; her experience in that school at a younger more protected age seemed to her less interesting and more childish . |
| 13 | I 've come from a village background actually , and homelessness was n't a major problem in our villages because a lot of these sorts of characters somehow were adopted by the community . |
| 14 | On arriving at Luxeuil amid the wild beauty of the Vosges mountains , the volunteers who had come from a year in the trenches with the Legion or from the spartan discomfort of the Ambulance Service , thought that life was almost too good to be true . |
| 15 | The calls had come from a call-box because there 'd been the call-box signal before the money was put in . |
| 16 | It turned out to have come from a machine in a nearby corridor . |
| 17 | Having come from a country afflicted by the worst drought in recent memory it should have come as no surprise that the Namibians were able to handle the Sicilian heat . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , master , ’ I neighed , ‘ I 've come from a country on the other side of the world . |
| 19 | and as soon as you 've parked , they 've obviously come from a home somewhere or from the hospital or whatever |
| 20 | A CALL for a big shake-up in the structure of the Scottish leagues has come from a shock source . |
| 21 | Radar can provide a more direct determination of axial period if there is a feature in the echo that can be inferred to have come from a surface feature on the planet , such as a mountain or a region with a particular composition or texture . |
| 22 | A fire blazed in a huge hearth beneath an oak lintel which , to judge by its thickness , must have come from a tree already at least a hundred years old when it was felled to help build this ancient building . |
| 23 | His shiny black coat could have come from a labrador and there was a suggestion of terrier in the pointed nose and priced ears , but the long string-like tail and the knock-kneed fore limbs baffled me . |
| 24 | And she also reminded herself that even if it had included a kiss it did n't mean a thing — especially as it had come from a man who was living in the outback to get away from women . |
| 25 | Compound documents of this type are traditionally assembled by layout artists from the various elements which may have come from a typesetting house , design studio , photographer or elsewhere . |
| 26 | And yet because you 've come from a P A Y E background , you feel you 've got to get up in the morning , and go to work . |
| 27 | Now most of you in the room have come from a P A Y E background , have n't you ? |
| 28 | Aid agencies all over the world have tried to ease their situation , but more immediate help has come from a Hereford farmer . |
| 29 | It may be genuine , but is likely to have come from a bifolium or double sheet . |
| 30 | We disembark , walking down the rusting ramp over white cockleshell sand and water so clear it could have come from a tap . |