Example sentences of "[verb] from the [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Flowered Up 's next single , ‘ Take It ’ , includes lyrics lifted from the soundtrack of Rude Boy , The Clash 's on-the-road movie . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | His torso lifted from the ground for a moment then collapsed into unconsciousness . |
| 9 | Electrical fittings , apparently lifted from the set of Terry Gillam 's Brazil , fizzed in gloomy corners . |
| 10 | We lie together beneath the crumpled warm sheet , and a tear trickles from the corner of my eye as if Jancey was dead . |
| 11 | The Thatcher Cabinet after 1983 radiated from the woman at the centre . |
| 12 | The dry store at Torness , on which a decision is awaited from the Secretary of State for Scotland , should also help reduce costs . |
| 13 | We have two wonderful prizes of bedroom furniture to be won from the top of Ducal 's range . |
| 14 | It was , the classic New Zealand manoeuvre , the line-out won from the top by Martin Bayfield , the ball moved quickly to midfield by Aadel Kardooni , carried vigorously into the heart of the opposing forwards by Victor Ubogu , and then returned to the backs going left . |
| 15 | In elections in Zurich on March 4 , 1990 , the city council was won from the centre-right by a Socialist-Green majority , the NA losing six of its 11 seats . |
| 16 | She was won from the League by Molly Braithwaite at a lecture demonstration , and herself became a dedicated Medau worker and ambassador , qualifying as a teacher in 1963 , and travelling by bus and train , apparatus and all , to take her numerous classes . |
| 17 | Our annual surplus of grain is roughly equivalent to the annual yield of the Cambridgeshire fens , won from the flood by Cornelius Vermuyden 300 years ago . |
| 18 | It 's been all downhill since he was wrenched from the helm of Private Eye by his homuncular protégé Ian Hislop . |
| 19 | He spoke to the lad who had come from the workhouse at the same time as Lydia . |
| 20 | We have come from the country to a city , and I shall have a chance to get settled in and find new friends before they all take off . |
| 21 | He must have come from the country for the lava-lava was rarely seen in the towns , however small . |
| 22 | The initiative has come from the order of Irish Dominican monks who live at San Clemente , and particularly from Father Leonard Boyle , prefect of the Vatican Library and former member of the community . |
| 23 | Did the new scheme come from the philosophy of government 's financial managers to save money rather than from the YTP providers themselves ? |
| 24 | The ‘ meaning ’ of the dream seems therefore not to have been implicit in the dream itself but to have come from the interaction between its imagery and Stevenson 's consciously controlled imagination — ‘ All the rest was made awake … ’ |
| 25 | Further support for this concept has recently come from the work of Iftikhar et al who showed higher concentrations of bile in oesophageal aspirates from patients with Barrett 's columnar lined lower oesophagus . |
| 26 | We learned soon that the money for Frank had come from the wife of our new romantic juvenile , Laurence Wheldon , a blonde and willowy man whose good looks far exceeded his acting powers but whose wife 's money was underwriting the company , to say nothing of her husband 's ambitions . |
| 27 | To-day a wild letter had come from the wife of one who refused subordinate office which will give me a sleepless night . |
| 28 | , John ( d. ante Feb. 1315 ) , popularly regarded as a saint , should not be assumed to have come from the village in Kent of that name . |
| 29 | A potential complication of the analysis could have come from the influence of the partner on the pulsar , had it been comparable with our Sun in size as well as in mass . |
| 30 | Wade goes further and questions , on the basis of American administrative history , the claim that bureaucratic growth has come from the expansion of established agencies . |