Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [noun sg] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The knights engaged in close combat but the jousting was cancelled after the first few contests as the horses were unsure of their footing in the mud and consequently the inept efforts of the knights produced only laughter from the spectators . |
| 2 | It was a continuation , in effect , of the 1930s Special Areas policy ( which had received further impetus from the Barlow Report on industrial location ) and from the carry-over of wartime controls which gave the government far more effective power in its sphere than it had ever possessed [ Brown , 1972 ] . |
| 3 | A three-man delegation from Bayern Munich — the team coach , Erich Ribbeck , general manager , Uli Hoeness , and club vice president , Karl Heinz Rummenigge — travelled back to Germany yesterday after watching Ferguson and having received further information from the last Scot to have played for them , Allan McInally . |
| 4 | They could see only darkness from the invisible bars of their prison . |
| 5 | ‘ Blessed art Thou , O Lord our God , King of the Universe , Who bringeth forth bread from the earth . ’ |
| 6 | the ability of a program to flow automatically text from the end of one column or page to the beginning of the next . |
| 7 | THREE women widowed in the Gulf war have been told by Government officials that they will not set aside money from the publicly-donated Gulf Trust to help them with an education fund for their children . |
| 8 | Such retrospective interests are not uncommon but often elicit only disdain from the youths who see clearly that their parents ' belated enthusiasm is a product purely of the tangible rewards sport brings along . |
| 9 | With his fingers he broke away mud from the river bank and wet it in the river . |
| 10 | In the Ministry of State Properties a long memorandum of October 1855 brought together information from the provinces concerning the abject condition of state-owned peasants . |
| 11 | Audrey , a lively girl ( previously the leader of her own gang and described in the book as a ‘ misfit ’ ) , develops as a decidedly sympathetic character and elicits mainly admiration from the reader . |
| 12 | He had a degree in fine arts from the Sorbonne ; he had further training from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London , and the Beaux Arts in Paris ; he knew more about the history of jewellery design in general , and of the de Chavigny company in particular , than anyone else except the man he was going to see now . |
| 13 | For example , the freesia buds are quite thick and , if they were placed in the same layer as the petals , they would prevent the thin flowers from receiving even pressure from the weight above . |
| 14 | If the plan goes through , the mine would push further west from the workings acquired when Wheal Jane lined up with a second mine , Mount Wellington , a couple of years ago . |