Example sentences of "[verb] from [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | It ran across three weekly issues , and was blatantly lifted from the big city papers and radio , but the editorial comment was strictly home town . |
2 | Next , a story lifted from the Daily Mail about Professor Jerrold Petrofsky 's work in Dayton , Ohio , and the hope it gave to the paralysed PC Philip Olds . |
3 | INXS : ‘ Taste It ’ third single lifted from the Antipodean funk rockers ' Number One album ‘ Welcome To Wherever You Are ’ . |
4 | His shop was in the merchants ' quarter of the city — a maze of buildings which had been divided and sub-divided , so great was the demand for space , which lay within the strictly enforced boundaries of the streets which radiated from the Golden Yurt like the spokes of a wheel . |
5 | The paid friend may well act from the impure motive that ‘ the customer is always right ’ ! |
6 | If a tear develops , peel from the opposite corner and work towards the damage . |
7 | But a nice young man who wanted a bit of chivvying from a jolly girl-friend . |
8 | A survey of 35 countries with interim reporting regulations indicated that of those requiring only semi-annual interim reports , the average maximum period permitted from the interim date to publication of the interim report was 108 days . |
9 | For me , going on a strict vegan diet where all animal products were banned , where there was no place for tea or coffee , where even fish , eggs , salt and sugar were forbidden , was like leaping from a warm bed into the icy seas of Antarctica . |
10 | The ‘ rule of thirds ’ has been treated as the standard method of division , but other arrangements were sometimes made which might reflect the contractor 's view of the likely profits to be won from a particular campaign . |
11 | More often than not Ma starts me off only to leave me stranded above the waterdragon with my–backside wedged into the Young Person 's Patent Toilet Seat Adaptor ( another trophy won from the WI jumble by Pa ) . |
12 | List ten things that you can buy from a vending machine . |
13 | Once cut , however , they should be treated as any other cold meat and kept under refrigeration , usually with the cut end covered — do not buy from a cut salame which is not refrigerated . |
14 | Jan Fischer produced a transporter that might well have come from a professional machine shop . |
15 | The material with which a major museum has to deal , both within its own collections and on offer to it , will have come from a wide variety of sources . |
16 | Although much research , comment and controversy have focussed on the population of North African origin , immigrants in fact come from a wide variety of sources both within and outside Europe . |
17 | Those who have been successful in their applications to the GEP have come from a wide range of backgrounds . |
18 | Despite the fact that he had come from a long line of soldier forebears , even the combination of breeding , upbringing and training no longer made it easy for him to bear the tedium of army life with good grace . |
19 | They have come from a war-ravaged country where their parents or friends have thought the best thing to do is to get them on a plane to some safer place . |
20 | I stopped wearing Tampax ( cotton wool pricks ) , and I stopped eating meat in case the chunk of sizzling corpse I was about to sit down to had come from a male animal . |
21 | Had the plea come from a budding starlet or perhaps an Italian supermodel , Jagger would have tripped over his lips in an effort to scrawl his name — and perhaps his phone number — in her book for posterity . |
22 | You do risk crackles and pops , but many will have come from a good home — and you can always get them washed . |
23 | Some scholars think that the infancy stories in Luke 's Gospel come from a separate source . |
24 | The South Americans have come from a five-nation tournament in Hamburg , where they beat Spain 2-1 and lost to Australia 3-2 . |
25 | Its name come from a Gaelic word Lagh which meant Law — Mountain of Lawgiving . |
26 | In role the teacher enters as a traveller to tell them that she has come from a neighbouring village , where Roman soldiers are delivering a decree that all will have to pay a new tax ; the traveller has to go on her way . |
27 | Those who have come from a joint family in India , Pakistan or Bangladesh to live alone with their husbands in Britain suffer most . |
28 | The most elaborate shells in the collections held in the British Museum ( Natural History ) have come from a sub-littoral population of Rhoscolyn ( Anglesey ) . |
29 | She broke down and wept bitterly when Wexford told her that that her husband 's supplementary income had come from a criminal source . |
30 | She claimed to have come from a different school but her story somehow did n't ring true . |