Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority of elderly people ( 76% ) being cared for suffer from a physical disability only . |
| 2 | Norma Jones , left , wanted a change of image to cheer her up after recovering from a nasty injury . |
| 3 | England marksman David Hirst has trained for the first time in five weeks after recovering from a cracked ankle , and is desperate to link up with Chris Waddle . |
| 4 | Last season , in his first collection after returning from a lengthy absence to Chloe he re-established his presence with the prettiest reminiscences of the Seventies seen on Paris runways . |
| 5 | After returning from a 30 month tour with UB40 , I believe that Birmingham is establishing itself as Europe 's leading city of the arts and media . |
| 6 | The tragic accident happened ten days ago at the family 's Regent Crescent home in Carrickfergus after returning from a seven-day holiday in Jersey . |
| 7 | Six months after returning from the Soviet Union , Nizan spoke at the International Congress for the Defence of Culture of the possibilities in the current socio-political climate of establishing a genuinely human society freed from class divisions and class oppression . |
| 8 | From the liberal wing of the Ukrainian Communist Party , Fokin was regarded as a compromise candidate and was elected unopposed in the third ballot ( he had re-entered the contest after withdrawing from the second ballot ) , after the communist hardliners ' candidate , Aleksandr Bulyanda , had been persuaded to stand down . |
| 9 | Juan Bosch Gaviño , 82 , on March 15 told the Dominican Liberation Party ( PLD ) , which he had formed in 1973 after breaking from the Dominican Revolutionary Party ( PRD ) , that he had decided not only to resign as party leader but also to withdraw his party membership , because of the bitter fighting between the right and left wings of the party . |
| 10 | Eldon Brown 's 40-year-old victim broke her pelvis , ankle and four bones in her back , after jumping from a fourth floor window to escape him . |
| 11 | Henry Skelton , who was twenty one , died from severe head injuries after falling from a second floor window at his |
| 12 | An Oxford University student has died after falling from a second floor window during a party . |
| 13 | The man drowned after falling from a white water raft on a river also in California . |
| 14 | Twenty-six-year-old Christopher Saggers escaped with little more than a broken elbow and a neck injury after falling from the 22nd floor of flats in Salford , Greater Manchester , on Thursday night . |
| 15 | 14 year old Philip is said to have made a ’ terrific ’ recovery after falling from the same chair lift , but he keeps asking why it happened . |
| 16 | Stuart is known as Bobby to his team-mates after graduating from the ex-England manager Bobby Robson 's School of Excellence . |
| 17 | A Leading aircraftsman , he joined the RAF when it was formed in 1918 after transferring from the Royal Flying Corps . |
| 18 | Well , at least you ca n't lose remission for escaping from a loony bin . ’ |
| 19 | Applying Shirk 's concept of ‘ adaptive behaviour ’ ( Shirk 1982 : 5 ) , their enthusiasm for a number of major student ‘ tides ’ such as going abroad to study , doing business and having love affairs , can be viewed as strategies for escaping from the depressing reality of everyday life in contemporary China . |
| 20 | The major theorists on acting , on the other hand , such as Diderot ( 1957 ) , Stanislavsky ( 1937 ) , Brecht ( 1973 ) , Craig ( 1962 ) , Artaud ( 1970 ) and Brook ( 1968 ) tend to be interested in a particular theatrical style while writers on theatre such as Weissman ( 1965 ) and Barish ( 1966 ) choose to write about acting from a psychoanalytical point of view . |
| 21 | Instead of profiting from the enormous interest in gambling on football results through the ‘ pools ’ system , the FA 's puritanism led to a futile and absurd confrontation in 1936 , which involved the withholding of fixture lists to frustrate the pools companies . |
| 22 | After two years it was found that the fish eaters had up to 30 per cent less chance of dying from a second heart attack than those who had been told nothing about fish . |
| 23 | Those aged above 60 have a pedestrian casualty rate per head of population which is nearly double that of the 20–39 age group , whilst their greater likelihood of dying from a particular accident gives them a fatality rate six and one half times higher . |
| 24 | We have not yet been sufficiently educated to realize that the risk of dying from the greatest killer disease in the Western world could be drastically reduced if only we took preventative measures by eating sensibly and looking after our bodies . |
| 25 | Low comfortable chairs had been set out in a square ; too comfortable for-some , because there was a distinct buzz of snoring from the other side of a rack of trade journals , broken only by the bats ' wing rustle of folding and refolding newspaper . |
| 26 | Look out for products from companies such as Marshalls who have an attractive range of paving from the rugged , riven-faced textures of Heritage through to the seven shades of the brick-sized Keyblock system . |
| 27 | They 're part of the changing retail scene which ranges from the modern shopping centres at one end of the spectrum to squat shops , short term let shops and car boot sales at the other , for the other less source of er retailing , source of purchasing from a decreasing number of people erm trade in car boot sales are subject to the same controls as high street traders basically be product safety , erm , but as well as those problems we are increasingly coming across other problems in particularly counterfeit goods , goods like that on sale at car boot sales , quite attractive , wholly illegal and it wo n't be out for about six or nine months yet . |
| 28 | Little more than a year ago you could n't give away shares in the small computer company sector — so friendless were they that Star Computer Group Plc found it necessary to get into bed with a purveyor of pizzas to improve its visibility and rating : after Tadpole Technology Plc and now Division Group Plc — which soared to 107 pence on its first day of trading from the 40 pence placing price before settling at 96 pence — the rest of the sector looks set for a re-rating as investors seek to discern hidden charms that others have overlooked . |
| 29 | But a nice young man who wanted a bit of chivvying from a jolly girl-friend . |
| 30 | MIDDLESBROUGH offshore business Northern Ocean Services has won its first major contract in seven years of operating from the former Smiths Docks site . |