Example sentences of "[verb] from [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 28 July 1930 I disembarked from the Sorrento at Constanza in the Black Sea . |
| 2 | It was dominated from the start by Marxism , proclaiming the industrial proletariat as saviours of the human race . |
| 3 | To defend their installed bases , equipment manufacturers , Input says , are responding to the trend by offering a growing portfolio of productised services which can be picked and mixed from a catalogue of traditional and new services . |
| 4 | Inside , the venue is dark , sweaty , with a pounding house beat from a rota of name DJs such as Alfredo , Danny Rampling and Andy Weatherall . |
| 5 | Men descended to the galleries on ladders , often made from the timbers of wrecked ships , and ore was hauled to the surface in iron buckets called ‘ kibbles ’ , and sorted from the rock by women and children . |
| 6 | If he needs lifting , he is likely to need a commode , unless there is enough room around the toilet to allow for him to be lifted from a wheelchair to the toilet seat . |
| 7 | A SCHOOLBOY had to be lifted from a ravine after plunging 100 ft on a four-wheeled motor buggy and breaking his leg . |
| 8 | If you are a gold fanatic , keep a look out for Sotheby 's mountain of coins , ingots and doubloons lifted from a shipwreck off Montevideo , Uruguay . |
| 9 | Flowered Up 's next single , ‘ Take It ’ , includes lyrics lifted from the soundtrack of Rude Boy , The Clash 's on-the-road movie . |
| 10 | Large , brightly coloured and apparently celebratory , they have been developed from the découpages of Matisse , but are , on closer inspection , altogether less tasteful , with their short , smutty messages lifted from the scribble of a toilet door . |
| 11 | Her eyes lifted from the books before her on the desk to the tall , powerful figure standing just a few feet away . |
| 12 | That is when all limits are lifted from the amount of alcohol and tobacco that can be brought into the country from Europe for personal use . |
| 13 | But it was equally likely that truly dreadful things were wiped away , which was why she had no recollection of being lifted from the wreckage of the vehicle in which her parents had died . |
| 14 | His torso lifted from the ground for a moment then collapsed into unconsciousness . |
| 15 | Jack Heinz and I thought as one : that if the drawings could be housed in a Portman Square modernised for fire and climate control , and have the financial burden lifted from the shoulders of the RIBA , this would allow for spatial manoeuvre in Portland Place . |
| 16 | It was as if a great burden had been lifted from the shoulders of the people . |
| 17 | Nothing should be done to further trade with the Iranian Government until that fatwa is lifted from the shoulders of Salman Rushdie . |
| 18 | Electrical fittings , apparently lifted from the set of Terry Gillam 's Brazil , fizzed in gloomy corners . |
| 19 | This was worse , with impossible moves on gritty walls and creaks and trickles from the cliffs of ice . |
| 20 | We lie together beneath the crumpled warm sheet , and a tear trickles from the corner of my eye as if Jancey was dead . |
| 21 | A red glow radiated from the depths of the shaft . |
| 22 | The Thatcher Cabinet after 1983 radiated from the woman at the centre . |
| 23 | When the seaman Peters , a thief and later a mutineer , protests against the commuting of the death sentence to the disgrace of being flogged round the fleet , Marryat as author finds it a matter for critical comment that the members of the court-martial are clearly surprised that a mere seaman should act from a sense of honour : |
| 24 | The dry store at Torness , on which a decision is awaited from the Secretary of State for Scotland , should also help reduce costs . |
| 25 | In so far as the interview is a critique of Thatcherism — and that is not as far as might have been supposed from the headlines in yesterday 's papers — it is misplaced . |
| 26 | He was a boy again , leaping from a rock into one of the sweet rivers of Yorkshire . |
| 27 | Bring history leaping from the pages of those boring , old textbooks — Battle of Hastings , 1066 — Magna Carta , 1215 — Great Fire of London , 1666 . |
| 28 | Although in these circumstances the ethnographic method is the best way to obtain trust , it does not ensure it will be won from every respondent in the field . |
| 29 | Although the viewer 's eye is won from a consideration of material possessions to the contemplation of transcendent values , it is ‘ things ’ themselves which , properly understood , call his attention to this higher truth . |
| 30 | We have two wonderful prizes of bedroom furniture to be won from the top of Ducal 's range . |