Example sentences of "[verb] at [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other , whom I recognised at once from the camp at Southampton and from the training centre at Achnacarry was sitting u– on the stretcher cursing his bad luck in getting a piece of shrapnel in his leg . |
| 2 | The battle of politics and ideas which focuses on the inner city represents a conflict between sets of interests and values which have a long history , dating at least from the 1830s and the New Poor Law of 1834 . |
| 3 | In the last century engravings showed hollyhocks with huge double flowers , all open at once from the top of the stem to the ground ! |
| 4 | so we 've got long red faces in Gloucester … while in Oxford we 've got dark blue flags flying at half-mast from the boathouses … yes the unthinkable happened on saturday … |
| 5 | Nothing follows at once from the presence of these various kinds of meaning in the facts of experience , language , action , and self-consciousness . |
| 6 | He shows the way " clearcutting " by the US Forestry Service is registered as bald scars on the mountain ranges — hard to distinguish at once from the destruction caused by natural forces . |
| 7 | Punch said nothing but slid at once from the room . |
| 8 | In the other two scenes , what is involved is not much more than a relatively conventional dramatic mechanism : in the Sunday Morning scene ( Act Two , scene one ) the music in church provides a kind of running commentary to the developing quarrel between Ellen and Peter ( in the manner of countless 19th-century operas from Faust to Werther ) , while the barn dance of Act Three similarly updates an ironic tradition stretching at least from The Marriage of Figaro to Wozzeck . |