Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] from [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is an exaggeration , but you should remember that the older the history book ( especially over 20 years ) the less reliable it can be considered to be , because ( i ) new evidence is always being unearthed ( ii ) all historians tend to write from within the perspective of their own times ( " every generation writes its own history " ) ( iii ) most professional historians update their own interpretations according to personal preference and in the face of scholarly criticism . |
| 2 | An explorer who does not compile maps as he or she proceeds is likely to end up going round in circles ; likewise , a society that does not know where it has come from in the past has no chance of knowing where it is going in the future . |
| 3 | On the move : has transferred from to the personnel department . |
| 4 | They want to build from within the club and restore the atmosphere and team spirit that was perhaps missing last year . |
| 5 | . But on a Saturday I had another paper round , from the same people , which involved travelling from to the Sanatorium on Road which is probably two and a half mile , with a cycle , advertising Smiths with the carriers on . |
| 6 | Grubby brown chipboard has emerged from under the designer fitted units and the cobalt blue Mexican tiles appear to have rusted . |
| 7 | Ohrid , the deepest lake in Yugoslavia ( 286 m ( 935 ft ) at its greatest depth ) is of great scientific interest , as it contains a species of trout which , like the omul in Lake Baikal , has survived from before the last Ice Age , the lake having being formed during the Tertiary period . |
| 8 | However , few musical laudarios are extant , and only one of Florentine provenance has survived from before the 15th century : the renowned , luxuriantly decorated early 14th-century manuscript , MS Banco Rari 18 , which belonged , rather surprisingly , to one of the more modest Florentine companies , the Compagnie delle laude di Santo Spirito . |
| 9 | Here the Athenian artist ( the face is directly in the tradition of the calf-bearer ) has learnt from beyond the Aegean to realise the body under the clothes but has rejected the elaborate schema . |
| 10 | Although the passengers were concealed by drawn curtains , an unpleasant thug dressed in a coachman 's uniform could be seen dismounting from behind the reins . |
| 11 | As the baby grows up , 24-hour rhythms begin to appear from about the second month of life onwards . |
| 12 | He criticised the committee for failing to say where the extra money needed to come from in the defence budget . |
| 13 | Guests — all Sikhs — began to appear from around the nearby houses and , after greeting Mrs Puri , quietly took their place cross-legged in ranks on the ground . |
| 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 | ‘ The month began quietly , but things really began to move from about the 10th onwards , and in terms of takings we recorded a couple of record days . |
| 16 | Our lucid moments , those times when the shadow seems to fall from off the face of our inward confusion , these are the times when we are drawn closer to God , to our inward Source . |
| 17 | Because still in 1988 , under the pressure of social instability and political crises , homosexuality could be regarded as a kind of privation or error , an ‘ inverted positivity ’ , an inimical , pernicious , inauthenticity always threatening to return from within the true and the authentic . |
| 18 | These are believed to come from beyond the Solar system , i.e. from interstellar space , the space between the stars . |
| 19 | The orang-utan lineage appears to have originated from within the first trend , with further modifications of skull and postcrania , but with little change in environments . |
| 20 | Collision along what is now the Indus-Tsangpo suture zone seems to have occurred from about the Late Paleocene until the Early Eocene , or possibly a little later . |
| 21 | And there were quite a few members had started coming from up the lane and some of the people . |
| 22 | Then he said , ‘ Sheet , ’ softly , and Trent , forced to watch from between the leaves , saw him shake the water out of his pistol . |
| 23 | Dogs start screaming from around the back . |
| 24 | The institutes which began to open in London in the late 1850s appear to have recruited from among the lower-middle class , though Waldo McGillicuddy Eagar , a young Edwardian club worker ( later to be a leading figure in the National Association of Boys ' Clubs ) claimed that ‘ as anxiety about the working classes was intensified , some Youths ’ Institutes reached down from the middle classes to the poor , and increasingly diluted their formal educational programmes with recreational activities . |
| 25 | Mathers had pointed from behind the windshield . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Once again , good evening ladies and gentlemen , and once again I 'd like to offer an especially warm welcome to this centenary lecture to those of you who 've come from outside the university . |
| 28 | She had come from across the county in Southend . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |