Example sentences of "[verb] [pos pn] [noun pl] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly fearful she 'd attack him , he turned without picking the lamp up , only to find that the woman had already claimed her clothes from the snarl of sheets and was retreating to the bedroom door . |
| 2 | The election of a unashamedly right-wing leader , John Smith , should free its members from the loyalty oaths of the Kinnock era , particularly if shadow cabinet jobs are crudely dished out to his supporters . |
| 3 | Guido climbed out and snatched her cases from the back seat . |
| 4 | The National Trust runs its hundreds of properties as a charity … and apart from protecting its charges from the ravages of winter , covering up saves them five months dusting . |
| 5 | Surrounded by the slums of Portuguese and Arab immigrants , the campus drew its students from the middle classes , but did so under an authoritarian system of education that seemed hardly to have changed in 150 years . |
| 6 | He gave the example of a two-year Community Skills course in a local college that drew its recruits from the special schools . |
| 7 | In the sixth arrondissement , between the Boulevard Saint-Michel and the Rue des Saints-Peres , the Seine and the Luxembourg , about one hundred folk are traced , as they moved their operations from the Flore to the Deux Magots to the Brasserie Lipp or from the brothels of the Rue Gregoire de Tours to the cheap hotels , La Madison and La Lousiane but especially Le Montana . |
| 8 | Having won their votes from the gullible , as well as the dedicated , the republicans now show their utter contempt for democracy . |
| 9 | Together , most of the bodies lost ground in the fifteenth century , and were often forced to ‘ appropriate ’ neighbouring parish churches in order to swell their incomes from the tithes due from the laity ; this frequently became a source of bitter dispute locally , and lay patronage shifted away to the parish churches in the fifteenth century . |
| 10 | " What about my poor old Ducky , " she changed her demands from the pigeons to her pony . |
| 11 | Robyn queried awkwardly , averting her eyes from the feast of muscle , the dark , dark hair that travelled from his chest down and down … |
| 12 | She shivered as a stray gust of wind whistled around the corner of a side-street , averting her eyes from the shadows cast by the encroaching house frontages . |
| 13 | Hastily averting her eyes from the strong arched column of his tanned throat as he emptied his glass , she retraced her steps to the kitchen . |
| 14 | The value of A 2 is a measure of solvent-polymer compatibility , as the parameter reflects the tendency of a polymer segment to exclude its neighbours from the volume it occupies . |
| 15 | The NSFU found it necessary to escort its men from the vessel through the BSU pickets , with their branch secretary French at their head , while the BSU men , led by Shinwell , were determined not to let them pass . |
| 16 | He caught his jitters from the financial markets . |
| 17 | A puggaree of Indian cotton hung from the back of his hat , to protect his neck from the sun ; a brown veil shielded his eyes from the snow ; a whistle hung from his button-hole . ’ |
| 18 | She was obviously under the influence of drugs , booze or both and as we approached , typically averting our eyes from the embarrassing spectacle , a girl of about 11 wiped a candle of yellow mucus from the woman 's nose and resignedly helped her to her feet , staring at us with old , resentful eyes as we passed , reminding me of myself and the Saturday afternoon rescue missions . |
| 19 | Normally we 'd buy our meals from the downstairs kitchen , but for breakfast we had our own food so we did n't have to get up till late . |
| 20 | The San José Group of Foreign Ministers of the five Central American countries together with Panama met their counterparts from the 12 European Community ( EC ) member countries in Managua , the Nicaraguan capital , on March 18-19 for the seventh annual meeting on EC-Central American co-operation , which was also attended by the Foreign Ministers of Colombia , Venezuela and Mexico . |
| 21 | The San José Group of Foreign Ministers of the five Central American countries met their counterparts from the 12 European Community ( EC ) countries in Lisbon on Feb. 25-26 for their eighth annual conference , which was also attended by Colombia , Mexico and Venezuela . |
| 22 | Pictures of Lorna Lewis picnicking in pedal pushers , marrying in white and christening her baby daughters counterpointed these triumphs , and the couple , who lived their lives from the outside in , saw themselves looking happy in magazines and believed they were happy , although the combination of Hitchcock and post-natal depression persuaded Lorna to announce that she would take a year off to devote herself to her family . |
| 23 | She saw the hotel porter preparing to carry her bags from the post chaise . |
| 24 | June had been a lush warm month , drawing her seeds from the ground with charmed fingers , stretching the runner beans a full four feet from their first green sprouts , and winding them neatly up their bamboo canes . |
| 25 | The prosecution at the Old Bailey had alleged the boy attacked her yards from the London police station where she worked . |
| 26 | It took several journeys to unload her provisions from the boot . |
| 27 | Vass was gathering their bags from the car boot and leading Lisa and a wide-eyed Emily across a courtyard to the front door of the house . |
| 28 | After this paper was completed , the UK government announced its conclusions from the consultation process that had followed publication of the Green Paper on Abuse of Market Power in November 1992 . |
| 29 | They came to a halt before the doors of the Manse and grooms ran out to take their horses , unarmoured Hearthwares helping their comrades from the saddle . |
| 30 | The fishermen will get all this information for nothing : the fisheries information centre receives its funds from the government and fishing organisations . |