Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] 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 So we move from semantics to pragmatics , from virtual to actual meaning .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 It seemed to take two lifetimes for the group to climb past them , but finally they passed from sight if not sound .
8 For eighteen months or more I suffered from chest spasms or a form of acute asthma .
9 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 ’ .
10 As Derrida makes clear , this lack of totality with language — something he sees as one of its inevitable qualities — occurs because , as a supplement , it reveals that there is always something missing from language .
11 She would verbally attack her husband but the more she shouted the more he withdrew from confrontation .
12 A year later he collapsed from exhaustion but insisted in carrying on with eight shows a week .
13 He was charming , and found women desirable , so inevitably he weakened from time to time .
14 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 .
15 Yes , well he knows from experience .
16 As there was no rail link between Scotland and England , almost everyone travelling from south of the border did so by train to Liverpool and boat from there to Ardrossan .
17 Even then I jinked from side to side as I pulled the hood back .
18 Alright well , generally then I think from hearing what you 're saying , erm , some good points , some perhaps things that you 'd do differently next time , and then what it obviously says about you is that , you 're all managers and you all have different styles , and you possibly do things in different ways .
19 And then she disappears from sight ; the diary entries stopped , and the next written record is her death certificate eleven years later .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 erm , as long as , cos they can only claim benefit for a certain length of time ca n't they ? , then it switches from unemployment to Social Security .
23 If it is really necessary to think of mental states as having qualitative content ( and see Dennett , 1988 , for some powerful arguments that it is not ) , then it follows from functionalism that such qualia do not have causal interactions with other mental states or behaviour and are mere epiphenomena .
24 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 .
25 Yet I see from Church history the many glorious illustrations of God 's weak people .
26 Instead it increases from act to act .
27 Again it runs from North Africa through Spain and up into the Alps .
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