Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pron] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereupon , declaring that no less precious food should thereafter pass her lips , the lady had , variously , starved herself to death or flung herself from the window , in which case her blood had forever coloured the ruddy rocks of Roussillon . |
| 2 | Moreover , Corbett realised that if de Craon knew he was asking questions it was only a matter of time before the Council of Guardians intervened and either put a stop to his activities or expelled him from the country . |
| 3 | Then swabbed the wash-basin clean guided Maxim downstairs and found their shoes and socks moving with a numb efficiency that abstracted him from the terrors of his imagination . |
| 4 | Her head lay next to the thin wall that separated her from the two of them . |
| 5 | They wandered down the cobbled streets to the Riviera , across the Villa Comunale and then over Via Caracciolo to the balustrade that separated them from the boulders that sat on the edge of the sea . |
| 6 | They became aware , therefore , of the vast gulf that separated them from the supreme Reality and the great confessional religions were born to meet these new conditions . |
| 7 | He scrambled down into the cold , howling plain that separated them from the stones . |
| 8 | Instead , he was leaning forward , peering through the glass that separated them from the chauffeur and glaring furiously at the car in front of them . |
| 9 | On certain nights the mirror had a faint lustre that separated it from the deeper shadows of the corner in which it stood . |
| 10 | They covered a large tract of ground , quite deserted , but conveniently illuminated by the high powerful lights round the warehouses that separated it from the still-working mainline railway . |
| 11 | It was Darwin 's fortune that spared him from the drudgery which wore out his contemporaries , and allowed him to do his research without worrying about whether he would have bread and cheese . |
| 12 | They ate and drank , sitting tucked into long grass that screened them from the river ; they could hear the flow of it , and the occasional plop of a fish . |
| 13 | Margaret Hughes wept in the backseat of the police car that took her from the court to prison . |
| 14 | The absurdity became clearer if one imagined twenty or thirty writers from another era occupying the air-conditioned coach that took us from the Hyde Park Regis to the Riverside . |
| 15 | Marion was sitting in the sun , her back to the hut that sheltered her from the cold wind . |
| 16 | But , to her relief , the voice that greeted her from the other side of the oak door , though indistinct , was that of the porter she had met so briefly the evening before . |
| 17 | I laughed at him but , when he heard footsteps in the corridor , he wrenched it off my neck himself and flung it from the window . |
| 18 | Rather than dropping his company 's commission bearing charge completely , he would have preferred to have reduced it and moved it from the front to the back end of his unit trusts — that is , charging investors as they leave the fund rather than as they enter . |
| 19 | At the market he started off down one of the narrow , clothes-thick alleyways , but we pulled him back and shielded him from the warren of stalls . |
| 20 | But Patsy decided she needed a hand with the unpacking and phoned him from the car on the way home . |
| 21 | Well , your mother came rushing in from the car with a rare display of energy and snatched it from the fellow 's hands . |
| 22 | The ruler of Sharjah , Shaikh bin Sultan Mohammed al-Qassimi , on Feb. 4 , 1990 , removed from his brother , Shaikh Abdel-Aziz bin Mohammed al-Qassimi , the title of Crown Prince and dismissed him from the deputy chairmanship of the Sharjah Executive Council . |
| 23 | Today I took on the world No 1 , and that 's not easy , and beat him from the back of the court . |
| 24 | The Supreme Council of the armed forces on Jan. 8 sentenced Mohamed Ali Seineldin , Luis Baraldini , Oscar Ricardo Vega and four other officers to indefinite imprisonment and discharged them from the army as the ringleaders of a military rebellion on Dec. 3 [ see p. 37913 ] . |
| 25 | He sat down and helped himself from the coffee-pot on the table , then refilled Lucy 's cup as well . |
| 26 | The raiders smashed the front door panel of the garage shop and helped themselves from the cigarette shelves . |
| 27 | Dom João offered her his hand and helped her from the litter . |
| 28 | It was Karl Franz who led the charge of the Reiksguard at the battle of Norduin against the Bretonnians , where the Emperor 's personal valour finally broke the resistance of the Bretonnian flank guard and drove them from the narrow defile which they had defiantly held throughout the battle . |
| 29 | This he derisively referred to as ‘ sociologism ’ and distinguished it from the true activity of sociology , the study of social action . |
| 30 | Dreamer came up to Tallis and tugged and twisted her from the frozen ground . |