Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] from [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She put her hand tentatively to her face , a small , fretful , cry escaping from her bruised lips . |
| 2 | The second equation embodies the structural neutrality and rational expectations hypothesis : for each country only the unpredictable component of monetary growth causes output to deviate from its natural rate . |
| 3 | The van slewed wildly , but kept travelling , smoke appearing from its rear tyres as it swerved and skidded back towards the exit . |
| 4 | so I hope to hear from her this week . |
| 5 | Mr Christie said that he had accepted the invitation to join the board only ‘ while the manager and the team seek to recover from their present dangerous position in the Premier League ’ . |
| 6 | Michelangelo 's works have a strong , peculiar and marked character : they seem to proceed from his own mind entirely , and that mind so rich and abundant , that he never needed , or seems to disdain , to look abroad for foreign help . |
| 7 | The ceaseless thrust and bustle came from something deep and primaeval in man . |
| 8 | This meant a shift in the burden of taxation towards workers , reducing the extent to which their take home pay benefited from their stronger bargaining position . |
| 9 | The pathological connotations of the term paranoid-schizoid are more appropriate to the reappearance of certain of these strategies later in life , when they become overextended from their normal place , and therefore develop as aspects of rupture , as when an adult attempts to gain power and control over another person as a substitute for the development of self-discipline . |
| 10 | If I now consider an event of a moment ago , my idle contemplation of the cup on my table , and attempt to subtract from my present conception only a part of it-the subject within the event of a moment ago-and to hang on to the remainder , I am in fact left with something other than the content of the event . |
| 11 | I think coming from my working-class background , I was frightened of everything that had a vague look of an institution about it . |
| 12 | In fact , men 's wrinkles only start to show from their mid-thirties . |
| 13 | Nuadu could see that her fingers were gone now , and that she was trying to pull herself back into the heartwood , which would have been her dwelling and the place from which she drew sustenance and vitality , but the Robemaker made another of his sudden curt gestures and the slaves fell to their work again , sweat streaming from their half-clad bodies and Nuadu saw the heartwood splinter and fall apart . |
| 14 | Congress , well I 've seen from my written report that the current material , building materials pay round has been an extremely tough one . |
| 15 | I 'm suing you , Varna , for every cent you 've made from your dirty little deals — and for the designs . |
| 16 | What he wanted in its place was put more colourfully , but very succinctly , when he said , also in 1965 , ‘ However , big the glass which is proffered from outside , we prefer to drink from our own glass ; while at the same time clinking glasses with those around us ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ Half the room is wearing clothes they 've brought from your posh shop , ’ he said to Daisy . |
| 18 | She said levelly , ‘ I hope you 've recovered from your unfortunate accident , madame . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ We 've learnt from our past mistakes in approaching Thurrock and Nottingham and we 'll use the experience we gain from Southwell to the full at Telford to build something on a far grander scale , ’ Muddle says confidently . |
| 20 | Although stocks have fallen from their earlier high of 32 million tonnes due to an upsurge in the steel industry , at the end of June 1984 stocks still stood at 18 million tonnes . |
| 21 | Lily said to Robert light-heartedly , ‘ I have heard from our Rumanian friends . |
| 22 | Instead , they tell of the support they have received from their extended family in Kirkby . |
| 23 | Yet I offer to you as much as I possess , and so much as old age has left me , with the utmost satisfaction , as being at least a testimony to the instruction and delight that I have received from your marvellous invention . |
| 24 | This in no way is meant to lessen the significance and importance of help which we have received from our other supporters which is very much appreciated . |
| 25 | Together , these mean that piglets need protecting from their own mothers as well as from other sows . |
| 26 | Only 2 points have come from their last 4 league games , but they want revenge for last season 's 5-3 defeat at the Manor . |
| 27 | Delegates agreed to open Eureka 's project database to east European companies and research institutes , although funding would , as in other countries , have to come from their own resources or from the governments ( which had so far provided less than 30 per cent of funding ) . |
| 28 | Blood gushes forth like nothing I have seen from my own body . |
| 29 | At the same time , a growing share of those older people who remain in work until ‘ normal ’ retirement age have moved from their main or life-time job to another , less-skilled , part-time , temporary or self-employed job . |
| 30 | With this in mind , we have drawn from our 30 years of experience as one of the most successful tour operators in the UK , to produce the COSMOS ‘ all inclusive — all on board ’ programme of exciting FUNBREAK holidays to the spectacular EURO DISNEYLAND Theme Park , so you and your family or friends can sit back and look forward to a truly memorable time in this spectacular wonderland of fantasy and make believe , whilst making sure you do n't pay more than you need to . |