Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] from [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Mario , you felt that if you were walking through the wilds and a bear came bellowing from behind a tree , Mario would seize its paw , shake it vigorously and tell it a good story . |
| 2 | At the time , the proposal was plausible although , of course , it still ducked the issue of where the spores had come from in the first place . |
| 3 | It was as if a blinding sun had emerged from behind a black cloud . |
| 4 | She started crying , and within two minutes Aubrey had arrived from round the corner , with some others behind him . |
| 5 | It lay asleep on a piece of sacking the gardener had discarded from around the rose-bush he was planting . |
| 6 | Several seconds passed before Isabel realised her name had come from beyond the wall and not from the man whose fingers still gently caressed her cheek . |
| 7 | Piaget believed that educational development had to come from within the child , through a process of building and testing hypotheses within the microworld of a child 's perceptions . |
| 8 | He was told in detail of the fields Riddle had bought from under Sidney 's very nose and how Riddle then served him with notice to quit . |
| 9 | Her Italian friend had gone from behind the bar , but his replacement was proving equally obliging . |
| 10 | Now the sound of the river seemed to come from beneath their feet . |
| 11 | Ajayi looked up at the door to the winding-stair expecting to see an attendant , but the voice had come from behind her , and she could see Quiss 's face starting to turn red , his eyes widening , the lines around them spreading out further . |
| 12 | Mathers had pointed from behind the windshield . |
| 13 | There was no fear of pursuit even if their escape had been discovered , for if the Tower had disappeared from off the surface of the Waste so also had they . |
| 14 | In the ensuing days , as the country suffered a series of aftershocks measuring up to 6.3 on the Richter scale , medical teams and supplies began arriving from around the world . |
| 15 | So now he knew where the mouse droppings had come from on Egan 's clothes . |