Example sentences of "[verb] from [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the power withdrew the madness lifted from Aenarion 's mind . |
| 2 | The cloud lifted from Karl 's face . |
| 3 | He was younger than she had supposed from Jenny 's description — in his early thirties , and as good-looking as she had expected . |
| 4 | Shelley finished binding up an infected mosquito bite , and gave the name of an anti-histamine cream that the other patient could buy from Rosie 's shop . |
| 5 | He took rehearsals in an ancient overcoat that might have come from Gogol 's dustbin . |
| 6 | The main impetus for this had come from Roh 's policy of improving links with communist regimes , which had resulted in the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and its eastern European allies in 1988-91 . |
| 7 | So he stood with her , and held her , and very soon nature began to teach them both what to do , and before very long the neighbours heard a little shriek come from Pascoe 's cottage , and the old wives glanced and nodded to each other , content that the marriage had been consummated , and anxious to share with each other reminiscences of their own experiences in similar circumstances . |
| 8 | Some sixty per cent of the amendments that we 've adopted in this field have been incorporated in the finished legislation and that means in reality that much of the content of these laws has come from Nigel 's pen , the pens of the other trade unionists inside and outside the G M B that he 's plugged in to that system extremely worthwhile . |
| 9 | The major lines of objection have come from Quine 's pragmatism and Kuhn 's work on paradigms , and it is to these that we now turn . |
| 10 | It must have come from Colin 's collection . |
| 11 | Although the funds had come from Hurley 's budget , the yacht was bought in the name of Andreous Kasikopu , a retired Cypriot marine police captain who looked remarkably like Claude Rains . |
| 12 | The corruptions in the West have come from man 's failure to apply those beliefs correctly . |
| 13 | The sensation had come from Dexter 's imagination , a reminder that murder often had a smiling face and was just at home in bourgeois drawing-rooms as in seedy bed and breakfast hotels . |
| 14 | Today he 's just come from Potter 's office . |
| 15 | The rudest snub this year has come from Kenya 's president , Daniel arap Moi . |
| 16 | It was impossible to detect in the dried slough a darker hair which might have come from Lorrimer 's head , or with the naked eye to distinguish his blood . |
| 17 | ‘ Because they might not have come from Alain 's clothing at all and I did n't want to upset him unnecessarily . ’ |
| 18 | In 1817 the lost watch was unearthed by a mole , and a stirrup and horseshoe were found in the Queen 's Mire , though there is no firm evidence of their having come from Mary 's horse . |
| 19 | Half a mile away smoke still rose from Dangerfield 's machine , where he had crash-landed on fire after stopping a burst of tracer in the wing . |
| 20 | A dark cloud rose from Carey 's head and was swatted away by a wave ; it made a little slick that thinned and trailed out to sea . |
| 21 | If we are not to infer from Anderson 's breach of Grice 's Co-operative Principle that he is deliberately being rude ( unlikely , when McKendrick is a complete stranger to him ) then it is most likely to be seen as evidence of his vagueness or , less favourably , his self-centredness . |
| 22 | Arthur Newsholme , the Chief Medical Officer to the Local Government Board , believed it would be ‘ folly ’ to infer from Campbell 's report that ‘ the industrial occupation of mothers is not a most injurious element in our social life ’ , and in 1919 the Women 's Employment Committee of the Ministry of Reconstruction , set up to advise on the opportunities for women 's employment after the war , expressed the hope that ‘ every inducement , direct or indirect , will be given to keep mothers at home ’ . |
| 23 | He would know from Fouché 's response whether he agreed , or whether he was in league with them . |
| 24 | The 28-year-old has made his first shift from children 's telly with the Friday evening showbiz slot ‘ Entertainment Express ’ where he works alongside Selina Scott — and he is loving it . |
| 25 | To assess the relative numbers of thesis citations to publication citations , it may be possible to extrapolate from Haner 's study of government information contained in seven core journals in American geology . |
| 26 | The ‘ A ’ team 's ranks were swelled when Mark Ramprakash joined the side after being omitted from England 's World Cup squad . |
| 27 | The existence of these symptoms , however , will have caused these women to be omitted from Henderson 's analysis . |
| 28 | In Masterman 's view , the Battle of Orgreave stands as a salutary reminder that ‘ what is omitted from television 's agenda can not easily enter the general consciousness and that the control of information , whether it takes a brutal or sophisticated form , is the very cornerstone of political power ’ ( ibid.:108 ) . |
| 29 | ‘ I was suicidally depressed , ’ he said — a phrase that was omitted from Lahr 's book at Williams 's request — and called on Halliwell at his home . |
| 30 | A scientist has resigned from FoE 's board of directors in protest against the organisation 's decision to adopt a low profile over oil spills caused by the Gulf war . |