Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A peculiar head slowly rose from the hole and peered into the room with patient animal scrutiny . |
| 2 | After he finished , it is said , a wind suddenly arose from the floor of the desert and blew sand across the spectators . |
| 3 | On this occasion I personally moved from The Bun Shop to a pub I believe was called The Volunteer run by a well-known and aged bare-knuckle fighter from London 's East End called Joe Mullins . |
| 4 | A woman suddenly shouted from the back of the crowd . |
| 5 | The 1.5 per cent pay rise for the public sector was announced by Mr Lamont in his autumn statement , but the details only came from the pay review bodies yesterday . |
| 6 | Some of his difference obviously came from the milieu from which he came and the milieux — there were a half dozen of them — in which he moved . |
| 7 | This opposition naturally came from the left of Irish politics , with support from left Labour figures such as Noel Browne and David Neligan , trade unionists such as Michael Mullen of the ITGWU and members of the Workers ' Party . |
| 8 | He could not raise the additional finance to purchase the bacon-curing business so withdrew from the agreement , recovered his £1,000 deposit and purchased a yacht with the intention of doing charter work to the Caribbean . |
| 9 | On my last visit I noticed that an image of James Joyce had been engraved on a tiny glass window on the seat behind me , and other historical figures literally emerged from the woodwork when I looked a little closer around the bar . |
| 10 | Another ‘ combatant ’ suddenly appeared from the Orchard end of the course , hurrying towards the farm . |
| 11 | He suddenly emerged from the water , in front of her . |
| 12 | Carrie asked but Albert did n't reply because Mister Johnny suddenly spoke from the doorway . |
| 13 | He had seemed to sniff at the opened envelope as though it carried some scent , but the letter inside only peeped from the teat and was not taken out . |
| 14 | A boar , tusked and red-eyed , suddenly burst from the undergrowth and Corbett jumped in fear as it blundered its way amongst the trees . |
| 15 | The assurance eventually came from the ARC literally minutes before the final deadline set by the Task Force for their abandonment of the project , and their promise to publicly disclose their reasons . |
| 16 | This was a fraction of the damage it eventually suffered from the acquisition it made instead , Crocker National . |
| 17 | Public spending savings mostly came from the abolition of SERPS . |
| 18 | Large figure-of-eight shields were depicted on the walls of the East Wing of the Labyrinth , possibly to indicate that the building was under divine protection ; the dappled hides of which the shields were made presumably came from the bull , the sacred beast , and this may have given them additional prophylactic value . |
| 19 | But I soon recovered from the chloroform and really appreciated the company of the other Mums . |
| 20 | Galliéni returned to Paris , but later again reached Joffre by telephone and , with passionate argument , finally wrung from the Commander-in-Chief acceptance for his plan to strike north of the River Marne . |
| 21 | He finally graduated from the University of Erlangen in 1779 at the age of twenty-four . |
| 22 | Arguments of this kind normally started from the assumption that the powers of Europe were still in a ‘ state of nature ’ with respect to each other and that each of them was engaged , consciously or not , in a ceaseless struggle to increase its influence at the expense of its neighbours . |
| 23 | The debate generally proceeded from the assumption |
| 24 | The Unionist party thus emerged from the war reassured in its identity as the national party , more closely in touch with the national mood than in 1914 , with its electoral prospects much improved . |
| 25 | We finally departed from the house as the pillager 's husband was scrabbling through the kitchen drawers in search of a rubber band he knew he 'd once seen in there somewhere … |
| 26 | The two police surgeons who so bitterly opposed them and who scarcely emerged from the inquiry untarnished , work on , while Sue Richardson , Cleveland 's child abuse adviser , still works in the county , but with abused adults . |
| 27 | She finally emerged from the water to see her friend with her bikini-top around her neck and the bottom dangling from one ankle . |
| 28 | After 45 minutes they finally emerged from the storm under broken cloud , and then made good time to Rangoon . |
| 29 | Or to worry about the thin but penetrating drizzle that greeted him when he finally emerged from the subway . |
| 30 | I was sure that I 'd be safe from then when I finally emerged from the city on the far side — it was n't likely that rats would abe allowed too close to the Divine Sanctum — but I could n't yet see any sign of a far side . |