Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] from [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Murdoch resigned from the British Medical Association over its attitude to the Arthur case , but criticism has also come from within the BMA . |
| 2 | Bad enough to feel the way she did , let alone have to spend time with a man who treated her as if she 'd just crawled from under a stone . |
| 3 | Her prosecutor was looking at her as if she 'd just crawled from under a stone . |
| 4 | What he would have really profited from at the beginning , he believes , was a coach and it was only some time after he joined the Vets movement that he found the next best thing , encouragement and advice from a distinguished Vet member of Cambridge Harriers , David Coward . |
| 5 | ‘ Natty suddenly called out , ‘ Look massa ’ ; in an instant the air before us seemed literally filled with a dense mass of these birds , which had suddenly rose from under the trees at his exclamation ; we had scarcely time to raise our guns before they were seventy or eighty yards off ; our united discharge , however , brought down eight additional specimens , all of which being merely winged and fluttering about , attracted the attention of our kangaroo dogs , and it was with the greatest difficulty that they could be prevented from tearing them to pieces ; in the midst of the scramble , a kite , with the utmost audacity , came to the attack , and would doubtless , in spite of our presence , have carried off his share , had not the contents of my second barrel stopped his career . |
| 6 | Her eyes were as blue as the patch of bright sky which had suddenly emerged from between the clouds and when she looked at him he was sure there was invitation in their depths . |
| 7 | He also said he had long fought from within the shadow cabinet for a change in Euro policies . |
| 8 | The close racial and cultural connections between the inhabitants of Bougainville and those of the Solomons , together with the geographical proximity of the territories , meant that BRA units had frequently operated from within Solomon Islands ' territory and had often received unofficial military and political assistance . |
| 9 | Finance has always been a headache for a group whose adherents have often come from amongst the poorest strata of society . |