Example sentences of "[verb] from [prep] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Uncle Philip darted Finn Medusa glances from beneath his bushy brows . |
| 2 | If you decide that a tripod is the answer , you will find a selection of these to choose from at your local photographic dealers . |
| 3 | More than 30 prospective hedges to choose from in our comprehensive and detailed selector table . |
| 4 | Crilly , I 'll tell you about the sparkle of Belgravia , the shimmer of white marble , a sumptuous , salubrious white , the sugary white of fluffy friendship , cloudship , feely white , and the slim cobblestone road which led to the river where I met James who was fresh from Waterstone 's with his arms full of Pinter plays , O he was as a young Terence Stamp , Crilly , but for the sly cracks of wisdom about the corners of his eyes , and we drank espresso and he told me about Spain and the high mountains of India , and the Pyrenees he had taken on foot , and though I was as trite as my shopping Saturdays and my small muggy and squirming palms in summertime , he painted my body swirly-lined and peach upon a large canvas and made love to me upon the tip of the Heath with all of London a basin of rooftops beneath us while the sky loomed low in grey and pink , the Heath a dark pudding of sloping mountains , wild and white and wide as Brontë country , with only the smug suburban cliffs of Highgate Village peering from behind its sprawling hem , and big dogs scurried like brown birds to the crevice of foothills and then disappeared , so we made love for a while beneath that sky , which cast a blaze upon us the colour of cream . |
| 5 | Nevertheless Cara smiled at them that morning , as she smiled at the frail , clerical-looking gentleman who was both their saviour and their torment , the pawnbroker who held his court on one corner of St Jude 's Passage , the other corner housing the red-headed madam of the fringed shawl who did not emerge from behind her green shutters so early in the day . |
| 6 | She stopped , unable to believe the sound that croaked from between her own lips . |
| 7 | There was not one villager who had dared to emerge from behind his shuttered door , not since the foreigner had come to the village . |
| 8 | It must also strive to be first with the news , especially that emanating from within its national boundaries . |
| 9 | It must also strive to be first with the news , especially that emanating from within its national boundaries . |
| 10 | In other words , we 've been funding from within our own budget new developments that 'll come on stream next year and it 's a very complicated budget and it contains some quite erm controversial erm subjects , which no doubt we 'll go through in a minute , but overall erm , given the total financial situation , I 'm a relieved man today . |
| 11 | A tall , skinny man , with a soft voice that sometimes strikes the court as coming from behind his left ear . |
| 12 | Minimising — acceptance that the sufferer has a problem and that there are some consequences in the family but refusal to accept that any of this is of great significance or that the family can not cope from within its own resources . |
| 13 | It elects from among its own members a reorganized bicameral 542-member Supreme Soviet , which meets twice a year for three- or four-month sessions and is responsible for all legislative and administrative matters [ see pp. 36659-60 ] . |
| 14 | Beside her , Dauntless had become rigid , sounds of torment squeezing from between his clenched jaws . |
| 15 | Come on ! ’ he snapped , thumping the end of his stick on the floor and glowering from beneath his unkempt eyebrows . |
| 16 | He rocks forward out of his leather chair and walks from behind his long white desk . |
| 17 | a ) The affairs of the Society shall be managed by an Executive Committee of the Officers and the chairmen of the standing sub-committees , together with not less than two and not more than twelve other members representing all aspects of Medau activity , one of whom should be a representative of the Medau teachers elected from among their own number . |
| 18 | d ) The Executive Committee shall be able to call upon help and advice from an ‘ Advisory Panel ’ which shall consist of all fully-trained Medau teachers resident in Britain during the current year , who are not Officers or Members of the Executive Committee ; a representative of the Medau Leaders who is not an Officer or member of the Executive Committee , to be elected from among their own number by holders of the Medau Leadership award ; a Medical Adviser to be appointed by the executive Committee and such others as the Executive Committee may from time to time appoint . |
| 19 | The Executive Committee shall be able to call upon help and advice from an ‘ Advisory Panel ’ which shall consist of all fully-trained Medau teachers resident in Britain during the current year , who are not Officers or Members of the Executive Committee ; a representative of the Medau Leaders who is not an Officer or member of the Executive Committee , to be elected from among their own number by holders of the Medau Leadership award ; a Medical Adviser to be appointed by the Executive Committee and such others as the Executive Committee may from time to time appoint . |
| 20 | Internal drainage districts ( which maintained smaller streams and ditches , especially in the lowlands ) were to be funded from within their own areas . |
| 21 | As to where the money is to come from , it is true that the proposals will be funded from within my existing resources . |
| 22 | And there all the time , a line of kneeling archers , letting fly from behind their ranked shields . |
| 23 | Slowly , inch by inch , the three men advanced the half mile across no-man's-land , towards the Allied front line , pressing their faces back down into the mud whenever the moon reappeared from behind its unreliable screen . |
| 24 | Claws braced on the wall beneath it , the thing strained upwards , rolling its dripping head in agony — and something that had been lying tight beneath it on the pavement slid from under its ravaged body and into the basement . |
| 25 | Rose was the world , the sky that curved above you when you first took a tottering step , that held from behind your upstretched hands . |