Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dot was n't allowed into Mrs Parvis 's kitchen except at the regulation meal-times and she was n't sure about how food was prepared , but she was pretty certain that when Mrs Parvis cooked what was called a nice egg-dish , it was made from an orange coloured powder spooned up from a deep cylindrical tin . |
| 2 | The driver got down from the cab and walked slowly down the platform and disappeared through a solid wooden door . |
| 3 | The administrator kept careful account of money laid out from the estate . |
| 4 | Barry 's Mum got up from the desk as they went into the waiting-room , and put her coat on . |
| 5 | A double stairway led up from a dusty hallway past walls of hieroglyphics and adolescent gods , set between huge mirrors advertising an Italian cognac popular in the 1920s . |
| 6 | At the 40th session of the UNHCR Executive Committee in October 1989 the 43 member states adopted a general programme budget of $190,000,000 for the first six months of 1990 only ; after extensive debate at an extraordinary session in May 1990 and at the regular session in October , the Executive Committee finally adopted a general programme budget for 1990 amounting to $378,885,900 , including the $38,000,000 deficit carried over from the previous year . |
| 7 | Civil Service have conceded fewer goals than any other team in the division , and had Howell not taken the decision to stand down from the top flight , he could have been elevated to the Scottish senior international training squad this summer . |
| 8 | Now , suddenly , a jay looks down from a hiding place in a lichened oak and slips away without breaking the silence : stealthy , cunning , typical of the inveterate egg thief . |
| 9 | Nineteen Cubans and Spaniards were allowed to disembark , plus three passengers with authentic visas ; the remaining 900 or so Jews waited for news of the negotiations which involved , variously , the Cuban President , his director of immigration , the shipping line , the local relief committee , the ship 's captain and a lawyer flown in from the New York headquarters of the Joint Distribution Committee . |
| 10 | The president got up from the chair and came round the table , his hand outstretched in the Western style . |
| 11 | As I crouched against the wall which offered some protection against the rain , the mortar team Corporal got up from the grass where he had been sitting and , crossing over to the small pile of H.E . |
| 12 | Its tough pale grass grows on mud and clinker dredged up from the docks . |
| 13 | Convinced that the Chinese communists were supplying the Vietcong ( Communist guerrillas of South Vietnam ) , the Eisenhower administration increased its aid to Diem and sent several hundred " advisers " to organize the army of South Vietnam , though the President drew back from a full commitment of US forces . |
| 14 | Then this pantomime carried on from the coast . |
| 15 | Practice varies , and it is good practice to find out from the beginning in order to avoid unpleasant surprises at a later date . |
| 16 | That morning , when he was about a quarter of a mile from the school gate , a Volvo estate car drew out from a side-road and drove straight at him . |
| 17 | As they were working , the smell of puris frying wafted over from the houses round the square . |
| 18 | He glanced back up at the house , where warm orange light spilled out from the dining room into the grey afternoon . |
| 19 | A professor came down from the university to investigate the project . |
| 20 | Boxer came out from the nearby farmhouse carrying a bag of oats and waved . |
| 21 | One evening Rosslyn 's horse came up from the paddock as usual for his dinner , but instead of practically knocking her over like he normally did in his enthusiasm to get at the food , he stopped quietly at her side and put his head in her hands , saying non-verbally : ‘ I hurt ! ’ |
| 22 | In his first reign at Everton , Kendall 's fortunes changed when his side came back from the dead in a Milk Cup tie against Oxford back in 1984 . |
| 23 | The evening light came through the skylights high overhead , glossing the scurfy backs , the sores , the scabby manes , and a soft echo came back from the walls of the vast , bare concrete building of animal content , feeding . |
| 24 | Nurse Rose had to exercise all her powers of concentration to sort out from the mumblings and digressions exactly what Mrs. Fanshawe wanted to say . |
| 25 | An unexpected bonus came up from the Uncle Ben 's food team whereby , regardless of the convection temperature , lkg of long grain dry rice cooked with 2.5 litres of water in 20 minutes on full power . |
| 26 | Again , the light level was subterranean , but there were no curtains so a fair amount of yellow light came in from the streetlamps outside . |
| 27 | Violence spilling over from the conflict in Croatia has escalated dramatically in recent weeks after the republic 's 1.9 million Muslims and 750,000 Croats voted overwhelmingly to secede from Serb-controlled remnants of Yugoslavia . |
| 28 | The eruption lasted between June and November of that year , and in those six months about eleven cubic kilometres of lava flowed out from the fissure , covering an area of nearly 600 square kilometres . |
| 29 | The blood poured out from the gash while he groaned and begged for water . |
| 30 | Great shafts of white after-rain light poured down from the edges of the clouds and soon the sun shone alone in a patch of blue , a weakening autumn sun . |