Example sentences of "[verb] from [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once again , good evening ladies and gentlemen , and once again I 'd like to offer an especially warm welcome to this centenary lecture to those of you who 've come from outside the university . |
| 2 | Several seconds passed before Isabel realised her name had come from beyond the wall and not from the man whose fingers still gently caressed her cheek . |
| 3 | She had come from across the county in Southend . |
| 4 | An explorer who does not compile maps as he or she proceeds is likely to end up going round in circles ; likewise , a society that does not know where it has come from in the past has no chance of knowing where it is going in the future . |
| 5 | Most of the resources for this work have come from within the Division 's normal programme of research . |
| 6 | Dr Murdoch resigned from the British Medical Association over its attitude to the Arthur case , but criticism has also come from within the BMA . |
| 7 | It oozed from under the rugs and the thatches of Grecian 2000 ; made atlases of blouses and bulging summerweight suits ; flowed in fan-shaped alluvial deltas down barer , pocky/downy carcinogenically tanned backs . |
| 8 | Its fast technique for assessing samples drilled from beneath the sea for oil companies is a commercial winner , and a go-ahead team under Dr John Bather is having to expand to keep pace with the demand . |
| 9 | She surfaced from under the sheets and her father saw that her hair was wound on huge electrically heated rollers . |
| 10 | Chrissie rose from beside the bed , and took Jack 's hand as they walked to the stairs . |
| 11 | A dog with more breeds in its blood than hairs on its back foamed and yapped at them from the limit of its rope ; the curtains of several trailers were drawn back by shadowy witnesses ; two girls in early adolescence , both with hair so long and blonde they looked to have been baptized in gold ( unlikely beauty , in such a place ) rose from beside the fire , one running as if to alert guards , the other watching the newcomers with a smile somewhere between the seraphic and the cretinous on her face . |
| 12 | Hector rose from under the desk and limped after her . |
| 13 | She rose from behind the desk , her face full of surprise . |
| 14 | A head rose from behind the counter . |
| 15 | As the man rose from behind the conference table , D'Arcy realised just how tall he was . |
| 16 | They saw Billy and Mary appear from behind the island still thrashing the water as they moved towards them . |
| 17 | This meant that Crawford would ride it out , appearing from under the water ; divers with oxygen bottles enabled him to breathe . |
| 18 | The huge " club fender " of early Edwardian times should have held on to its proper suggestions of Christmas , when a group of laughing guests sat there , full glasses in their hands , while child actors performed in a glittering pantomime , entrances and exits from behind the Christmas tree . |
| 19 | This is an exaggeration , but you should remember that the older the history book ( especially over 20 years ) the less reliable it can be considered to be , because ( i ) new evidence is always being unearthed ( ii ) all historians tend to write from within the perspective of their own times ( " every generation writes its own history " ) ( iii ) most professional historians update their own interpretations according to personal preference and in the face of scholarly criticism . |
| 20 | The Audi Quattro honked from across the road . |
| 21 | supply from within the library system but not from the particular service point ; |
| 22 | When you asked phoned up say from from the yard at Street , and asked an inspector , the shift er the man on the shift , Er what about er tomorrow ? |
| 23 | ‘ Well thrown , sir ! ’ someone shouted from across the playground , and Matilda , who was mesmerised by the whole crazy affair , saw Amanda Thripp descending in a long graceful parabola on to the playing-field beyond . |
| 24 | Barrington 's words erupted from behind the court like venom . |
| 25 | It lay asleep on a piece of sacking the gardener had discarded from around the rose-bush he was planting . |
| 26 | Under sail the yacht can be enjoyed from behind the wheel in the spacious cockpit , or when the weather gets nasty there is a second steering station with complete instrumentation and controls under the dodger . |
| 27 | Martin Chuzzlewit returning from across the Atlantic Ocean is like one returning from the dead , a ghost ( the allusion is to the drowning of Pharaoh 's host in the Red Sea as described in Exod. 14 . |
| 28 | He criticised the committee for failing to say where the extra money needed to come from in the defence budget . |
| 29 | Piaget believed that educational development had to come from within the child , through a process of building and testing hypotheses within the microworld of a child 's perceptions . |
| 30 | As she brought Shine On out of his box , Bill and Winnie approached from across the yard . |