Example sentences of "[vb pp] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was dominated from the start by Marxism , proclaiming the industrial proletariat as saviours of the human race . |
| 2 | Instead , he proposes a new domestic freedom : ‘ You must leave your surroundings sketchy , unfinished , so that you are never contained , never confined , never dominated from the outside ! ’ |
| 3 | Gallonage costs are based on the lowest figure , and up to 160 gallons may be mixed from the 20kg pack in a fish-only set-up . |
| 4 | In two rounds of sprinting heats on the previous day , the wheat had been sorted from the chaff . |
| 5 | Men descended to the galleries on ladders , often made from the timbers of wrecked ships , and ore was hauled to the surface in iron buckets called ‘ kibbles ’ , and sorted from the rock by women and children . |
| 6 | Yet when he made to take a line of stones he had surrounded from the board , the boy placed his hand over Tuan 's , stopping him , lifting his hand so that he might study the position , his face creased into a frown , as if trying to take in what he had done wrong . |
| 7 | Once the engine was exposed on both sides , hawsers were placed around it and it was then lifted from the hole . |
| 8 | The other classic Ce Ce Rogers anthem lifted from the vaults and dusted down for rerelease . |
| 9 | BORIS MAVRA was lifted from the Oxford University boat , consumed by exhaustion . |
| 10 | Romany washed the tea glasses in a bucket of water lifted from the river . |
| 11 | With a fair amount of jiggling , the big end caps were all parted from the con-rods and the crankshaft was lifted from the crankcase . |
| 12 | It was around fifteen minutes before the combined efforts of four policemen and two ambulance men succeeded and the driver was lifted from the wreck . |
| 13 | Flowered Up 's next single , ‘ Take It ’ , includes lyrics lifted from the soundtrack of Rude Boy , The Clash 's on-the-road movie . |
| 14 | St Agatha was lifted from the sofa and stationed at the window in a bridal veil , to the electrification of passers-by . |
| 15 | Once it has been lifted from the frames it will be offered to the NRM who have expressed interest in it for a projected display . |
| 16 | Large , brightly coloured and apparently celebratory , they have been developed from the découpages of Matisse , but are , on closer inspection , altogether less tasteful , with their short , smutty messages lifted from the scribble of a toilet door . |
| 17 | However , remember that you can clean the ball not only when lifted from the green , but also in the circumstances spelled out in Rule 23 . |
| 18 | Julie was awake when she was collected from the recovery room and was distressed by the sensation of being lifted from the theatre trolley into bed . |
| 19 | Turning to her companion , she held out her arms to be lifted from the saddle . |
| 20 | It was a load lifted from the heart , a load we had not even known weighed us down . |
| 21 | The RNLI 's new dock and boat hoist came into use at the Poole depot in early June , enabling lifeboats to be lifted from the water and positioned anywhere in the yard for storage or inspection and work on underwater areas . |
| 22 | A painting by Brueghel the elder was lifted from the Courtauld a few years back . |
| 23 | The spirit in the boy lifted from the bones , from the flesh , through the furs . |
| 24 | Her eyes lifted from the books before her on the desk to the tall , powerful figure standing just a few feet away . |
| 25 | With the workman 's help she was lifted from the boat and taken into the palazzo . |
| 26 | The blankets are folded back and the printing paper slowly lifted from the plate . |
| 27 | This is precisely the minefield that King is gleefully preparing to step into with her debut novel O.P.P. ( a title lifted from the rap hit by Naughty By Nature and standing for Other People 's , uh , Property ) . |
| 28 | ‘ You obviously knew her better than I do , ’ said Scarlet , growing confused with her tenses , for she had begun to identify Barbs with the sodden creature they had lifted from the canal . |
| 29 | when the watch was lifted from the dormitory |
| 30 | That is when all limits are lifted from the amount of alcohol and tobacco that can be brought into the country from Europe for personal use . |