Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] from [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now make another table of what you expect from your house , and award points from one to ten in the same way : |
| 2 | He watched her dab her cheeks , then wipe her eyes , his heart torn from him by the tiny shudder she gave . |
| 3 | Even now he had learnt that Pete Foster , the man being investigated for murder and fraud in the Docks , a hard man , was terrified of his old mother and had kept his successful career in crime hidden from her for sixteen years . |
| 4 | When Simon the Trapper parted from him on the great north ride the Friar loosened the rope that girdled his waist , dragged up his gown a score of inches to free the movement of his lower legs , re-tied his girdle tightly , wiped his hands on the none too clean garment and taking hold of his staff set off up the highway in pursuit of his sack , of Marian , and of the verderers . |
| 5 | His glance zipped from one to the other . |
| 6 | ‘ What is going on ? ’ he rasped , his glance darting from one to the other . |
| 7 | This can be expressed in Hume 's terms of the tendency of the mind to pass from one to the other , but one must be careful how one interprets such a tendency . |
| 8 | He felt at rest , the dark weight of tension lifted from him by the woman . |
| 9 | Well , Adolph , it certainly was a real pleasure to hear from you after all these years . |
| 10 | Lady Merchiston let out a cackling guffaw , and then noticed her godson 's glance going from one to the other , his face a study . |
| 11 | Total revenue ranges from nil to about £55,000 . |
| 12 | Marc let his glance laze from one to the other , then his lips quirked in a humourless smile . |
| 13 | A flower demonstration called From Me To You by Ian tomorrow , seven for seven thirty tomorrow at the Festival Hall , Kirkby in Ashfield , Nottingham , two pounds fifty and that includes refreshments . |
| 14 | He pumped cannon shells at the las cannon on that Titan 's carapace — while searing light pulsed from it towards theirs . |
| 15 | One part of the project was of course specifically concerned with creating a core of schools and the dissemination of good practice derived from them in the inservice education and training of teachers ( Objective 4 ) . |
| 16 | But Leith 's glance went from him to where , at some time in the night , he must have become too hot and in stupor had shed his clothes , which were now in a crumpled heap by the side of the bed . |
| 17 | ‘ I have n't any serious plans to marry him , if that 's what you 're asking , ’ she told him as levelly as she could , and had the hardest work in the world in hanging on to her temper when his glance flicked from her through the open door into her sitting-room . |
| 18 | Ambition oozes from him like sweat . |
| 19 | This tells us two things : there is a conception of what amounts to trust wording ; but there is a willingness to depart from it in certain circumstances . |
| 20 | Mr. Back Q.C. , for the appellant , contended that if Mr. Occhi consented to the appellant taking the £6 , he consented to the property in the money passing from him to the appellant and that the appellant had not , therefore , appropriated property belonging to another . |
| 21 | Our philosophy differs from theirs on this point . |
| 22 | Yeah hall hired from you for a function |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , yes , yes ’ — the old lady nodded from one to the other at the table now — ‘ in a crocodile , from the school to the church , from the school to the conciergerie , from the … ’ |
| 24 | The cat withdrew from her like a sooty ghost and stole away along the slope towards the standing stone . |
| 25 | ‘ Did you think I was going to be left behind ? ’ responded de Villiers cheerfully , his bright , interested gaze going from one to the other . |
| 26 | The rate of propagation varies from one to a hundred metres per second , depending on the diameter of the axon . |
| 27 | I 'd heard so much about the blinking cruise being in October and not in September that I 'd considered it done and June , fool that she is , chose not to challenge me outright because her tactic is to suffer in silence until her suffering spills from her like lava , devastating everyone in its path . |
| 28 | Any debris dislodged from them by hydraulic action sinks to the depths and can not be used by the waves to attack the cliffs . |
| 29 | As they came up , Meredith was surprised at the amount of body-heat coming from them in the low outside temperature . |
| 30 | The boy looked from one to the other of them and it was a moment or two before he could find his voice , then : ‘ I do n't know what you mean . ’ |