Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] from under [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A perfect end to a perfect day : a chocolate-smeared face peers up from under the table . |
| 2 | He hauled a pillow out from under the bedspread and arranged it to ease his throbbing temples . |
| 3 | He returned to his room and pulled his holdall out from under the bed . |
| 4 | She brought her fingers up from under the sheets and stared at them . |
| 5 | Gavin stuck his head out from under the duvet , giving me cause once more to marvel at the impressive way the lad 's shoulders merged into his head with no apparent narrowing in between ( this appeared to be the principal physical benefit bestowed by the game of rugby ; the acquisition of an extremely thick neck , just as the most important thing one could take to the sport was a thick skull , and from it an intact one still in satisfactory two-way communication with one 's spinal cord ) . |
| 6 | I used to be frightened to fall asleep at night sometimes , afraid I 'd stick my head out from under the clothes while I was asleep and wake up to find my head in a dragon 's mouth , before I died . ’ |
| 7 | She started to snake out from under the bed , clutching the renegade shoe . |
| 8 | He saw him pull a couple of rabbits out from under a bush so he must have had the boots too . ’ |
| 9 | As he moved towards the table Joe noticed that , although they had been bidden to take their seats , neither Mrs Carver , nor Mick , nor Carrie did until Mr Carver was seated ; then , each pulling a chair out from under the table , they sat down ; and having done so , Mick pointed to a carved chair with a leather seat and said to him , ‘ Come , sit down . |
| 10 | He slipped a sheet of paper out from under the blotting-pad on his desk , then put on a pair of spectacles to read from it . |
| 11 | Suck all the air out from under the plastic so it is forced down over the wooden former . |
| 12 | Confident in the knowledge that he now had the general support of most of the top brass to his world control plan , Mueller considered that he was now in a much stronger position to start pulling the rug out from under the Regional Area Managers . |
| 13 | ‘ Apparently Mr Delors pulled the rug out from under the EC negotiator ( Ray MacSharry ) and those are the words of the EC negotiator who then resigned , ’ Eagleburger said . |
| 14 | Thus as we have seen Darwin pulled a plank out from under the creation stories . |
| 15 | He added that splinter groups should not be pulling the carpet out from under the coalition . |