Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly I went from pot to pot , pot to pot , giving each flower its drink of water . |
| 2 | So I graduated from watcher to player and clapped as the sons and the Omani drummers played and sang . |
| 3 | So he calls the heart a wild beast liable to impulsive leaps out of control , a situation archetypally illustrated in the story of the Fall when Eve 's eyes leapt to the apple and her heart followed and so she leapt from Paradise to the pains of mortality and took all men with her . |
| 4 | Perhaps they suffered from insomnia , because every night , just when everybody was settled in bed , a slow noisy little plane — we called it Pippo — came buzzing around . |
| 5 | And so he went from day to day , from one business deal to the next , pouring his heart and soul into his land agency business , trying to forget , always trying to forget , but being made to remember all the more . |
| 6 | It seemed to take two lifetimes for the group to climb past them , but finally they passed from sight if not sound . |
| 7 | For eighteen months or more I suffered from chest spasms or a form of acute asthma . |
| 8 | now she has an iris mountain , with Sir Cedric 's and the many more she grew from seed brought back from America , fenced off from the main garden in her ‘ Stalag 13 look ’ . |
| 9 | She would verbally attack her husband but the more she shouted the more he withdrew from confrontation . |
| 10 | A year later he collapsed from exhaustion but insisted in carrying on with eight shows a week . |
| 11 | He was charming , and found women desirable , so inevitably he weakened from time to time . |
| 12 | Three months pregnant , yesterday Shelley Williams lost her baby , today she returned from hospital what 's been her home for the last two months , a tent pitched on a grass verge outside the home of her boyfriend 's parents . |
| 13 | Even then I jinked from side to side as I pulled the hood back . |
| 14 | Jones had been doing research funded by the US Department of Energy ( DOE ) since May 1986 , had hints of neutrons and by September 1988 was in the process of starting to use a neutron detector sensitive enough to measure their energies and determine whether indeed they came from fusion . |
| 15 | Eventually it was standing so well that the twins were able to play teasing games with it , pushing and pulling and slapping its sides , so sometimes it fell and sometimes it lurched from side to side and recovered . |
| 16 | Indeed it drew from Moray the comment that this was the one matter that he had against their father : that he had married off his elder daughter , as a mere girl , to a man more than twice her age , as a matter of policy , to endeavour to attach Dunbar more firmly to the national cause , unsuccessful as this had been . |