Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He constructed his own refined version of the newly-invented telescope and peered through it from the top of St Mark 's tower in Venice . |
| 2 | Abolition of the Southern League also robbed players of a useful safety valve , for no transfer fee was payable when a player moved into it from the League . |
| 3 | Vehicles started up again and a familiar voice shouted to him from the side of the truck . |
| 4 | Sun Microsystems Inc hopes to get one of its workstations on BBC1 's Tomorrow 's World science television programme in the UK tomorrow : Oklahoma State University 's Dr Marvin Stone has developed a hand-held device dubbed ‘ the thumper ’ which can measure the ripeness of a watermelon by delivering a blow to its skin and Sparcstations can put up a colour map indicating the ripeness of a field of watermelons from data downloaded to it from the thumper . |
| 5 | A dog with more breeds in its blood than hairs on its back foamed and yapped at them from the limit of its rope ; the curtains of several trailers were drawn back by shadowy witnesses ; two girls in early adolescence , both with hair so long and blonde they looked to have been baptized in gold ( unlikely beauty , in such a place ) rose from beside the fire , one running as if to alert guards , the other watching the newcomers with a smile somewhere between the seraphic and the cretinous on her face . |
| 6 | Naylor entered the building and was still looking for me when there on the mat right outside your door he saw a set of keys which he instantly recognised as mine from the Alsace wine fob on the key-ring . ’ |
| 7 | The Archbishop arrived in Munich between performances of La finta giardiniera , and although he was not to hear the work himself , he learnt about it from the Elector and his family : |
| 8 | She came with us from the orphanage back home , two hundred heads in two hundreds beds and two hundred broken hearts under two hundred army surplus blankets and the good nuns to look after us . |
| 9 | Certainly the paradoxical view of ugliness as a special kind of beauty appealed to him from the start . |
| 10 | He , too , suffered from an occasional enlightening vision which came to him from the dim past and which he must have suppressed at the time … |
| 11 | These images came to her from the metal engravings of the conquest of Libya which had appeared in the illustrated journals ; she did not remember the different countries of the Italian empire in question , for all of Africa — Libya , Somalia , Eritrea alike — beat out a rhythm of adventure and spoils and heroism . |
| 12 | Five years after the revolution Lenin complained that the Communist Party had good political control only over the top echelons of the vast bureaucracy : ‘ Down below , however , there are hundreds of thousands of old officials who came to us from the Tsar and from bourgeois society and who , sometimes consciously and sometimes unconsciously , work against us ’ ( quoted in Merkl , 1977 , pp. 166–7 ) . |
| 13 | Then he muttered to me from the corner of his mouth . |
| 14 | ‘ He came at her from the front then ? ’ |
| 15 | An explosive snort came at him from the centre of the room behind him . |
| 16 | Agricultural produce flowed into it from the surrounding rural territory , some from estates which seem to have been owned by the temple , the rest in the form of tribute or offerings from the owners of private estates . |
| 17 | Fernando turned to her from the fridge where he was taking out a bottle of wine . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's more than you 'd dare , Deveraugh , ’ she threw at him from the relative safety of the riverbank , and he laughed softly , the sound of it filling her ears as she sped across the grass . |
| 19 | As to the other , I heard about you from the other side as well , did n't I ? |
| 20 | When he returned to it from the telephone box outside , it was unoccupied . |
| 21 | The boy walked beside him from the Post Office to Lipton 's , talking about the secret that was safe between them , pursuing him into the shop itself . |
| 22 | When he threw open shutters to let in air and light , pictures sprang at her from the walls . |
| 23 | Jonathan 's face grinned at her from the telescreens . |
| 24 | In spring , summer and autumn it grinned at them from the greenwood . |
| 25 | Shelley sat at the desk and took the pile of cards Miguel dumped before her from the filing cabinet . |
| 26 | He waved to her from the gate , where she stood like any housewife seeing off her man . |
| 27 | He called to me from the place . |
| 28 | The rising tower of debris blossomed and drifted , starting to fall as the shockwave pulsed at me from the dune . |
| 29 | She waved at him from the door and went down to the street . |
| 30 | Everyone waved at us from the street and were ever ready to help with directions . |