Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She crossed to the doorway and led them away from the shed . |
| 2 | But typewriters we had problems with because , if they went in for repair , you never got them back from the Ordinance Core , and so at one place in Tunbridge Wells we handed a typewriter in and because the army were allowed to buy greaseproof paper , we bought a lot of greaseproof paper which came in the package of a new typewriter . |
| 3 | Dexter levered himself up from the chair , his eyelids leaden with sleep , and murmured that he had to go home and rest . |
| 4 | She levered herself away from the door , crossed to the heavy old sideboard and took out the bottle of whisky and a glass . |
| 5 | Elvis had then travelled forwards in time , locating each potential mother of the Anti-Christ and wooed her away from the Satanic father to be . |
| 6 | Tutilo took Daalny suddenly between his hands , with grieving gentleness , and moved her aside from the doorway . |
| 7 | It was a glimmering he had , but no more than that , and she cast him down from the height of her knowledge . |
| 8 | She began to take a different route so that she approached her home from the other end of Magdalen Street and avoided a meeting with John . |
| 9 | A firm hand caught hold of her left arm , drew it away from the female curve of her body . |
| 10 | Forging onwards in this way , they found themselves away from the river and in a hinterland of commercial London that was as alien to them as New York or Hong Kong . |
| 11 | Great flights of fire-breathing beasts swooped on the armies of the night , and drove them back from the heart of Ulthuan to the shores of the island-continent . |
| 12 | The mystery of the communal Trinity was revealed and the Holy Spirit descended upon Jesus , who received him gladly from the Father who spoke of his love for his Son , though the crowds at the baptism did not understand the significance of the event . |
| 13 | Shaffer drove him there from the Park West flat . |
| 14 | He lifted her down from the train , kissed her swiftly , then began to lead her towards the taxi rank . |
| 15 | ‘ I knew she was on this wavelength , ’ Elinor said excitedly , ‘ I believed her right from the start . ’ |
| 16 | In my diary I recognised it almost from the beginning , probably because I made no connection between it and non-eating , but seemed to have ascribed it to being overworked academically or being hounded into sporting activities which I resented for their profound pointlessness . |
| 17 | The Livre des Coutumes of Bordeaux contains a note that ‘ [ In 1259 ] king Henry did homage for Bordeaux , Bayonne and all the land of Gascony [ Gasconha ] which was [ then ] free allod [ franc en alo ] to Louis , king of France … but let it be known that this Gascony was the most free allod that the king of England had , before … king Henry received it back from the French king in homage ’ . |
| 18 | He hauled me up from the bowels of the villa , took off his jacket and placed it tenderly round my shoulders . |
| 19 | Maxie withdrew himself reluctantly from the excitement of the football game he was watching on television . |
| 20 | This was the only time she allowed herself away from the business of the shop or the house above it . |
| 21 | Laura hauled herself up from the sofa and went to answer it . |
| 22 | She did n't know how long it would take for someone with a gun to get into position to fire at her , so she took another deep breath , and threw herself away from the buoy , cutting under the surface as she headed for the opening . |
| 23 | And now Jimmy had taken her hand as she hauled him back from the desk and … |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm not good at waiting , ’ she persisted stubbornly , as he handed her down from the cruiser . |
| 25 | He hauled her bodily from the van in his rage and hurled her in front of him , through the kitchen to the hall , and down the steps that fell away sharply to the brick-built cellar . |
| 26 | The others hauled her back from the edge . |
| 27 | With her mind muzzy from sleep and cold , instinct alone turned her away from the Welsh Back . |
| 28 | But I hated her right from the start . |
| 29 | Like other elements of the left-wing movement , however , activists in this sphere were subjected to extensive government oppression , which prevented almost all activity until 1918 and hampered it severely from the late 1920s . |
| 30 | She immediately opened it again from the other side . |