Example sentences of "[vb past] from [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A childish voice wafted from behind the thin curtain . |
| 2 | I do n't know I do n't know who Mr is referring to er Chair , but I presume you wish me to reply to some comments that came from across the other side of the room . |
| 3 | Well it was n't er the wife it was a bit of a setback , we had a bungalow you see , a small bungalow which was in a very , very nice part of Plymouth , well on the outskirts of Plymouth actually , almost in the country and er , to come and find this , well to her it 'd be like a , a terraced house , her mind went back to the old days in Manchester where she came from with the old terraced houses and I think she visualized that then to go in a house that had a , a square room , do you follow ? |
| 4 | Muted sounds , and , once , a cry of pain , came from behind the closed doors that led off it on either side . |
| 5 | He walked to Newlyn , where the paintings and the pilchards came from in the old days , and returned along the sea-front with the street-lamps struggling against the great plain of darkness that was the sea . |
| 6 | Eighteen of the votes against came from among the 23 deputies representing the Moslem Brotherhood . |
| 7 | Some of them even came from within the nuclear fold , concerned that the truth should be told from the inside out . |
| 8 | In effect , those who operated from within the comfy confines of the constitutional approach , froze the constitution when the set-up is never fixed . |
| 9 | The open-air stairways were shadowed with creepers and flickering with the eerie lights of televisions that glowed from within the screened windows of the small apartments . |
| 10 | I went past one as the sounds of the seven o'clock service grew from behind the gaping shutters . |
| 11 | Even without a new signing Keegan still has an embarrassment of players to chose from for the vital Brighton clash . |
| 12 | Patronage in effect chose from among the qualified candidates those whose rise would be accelerated , and its advantages in easing the movement upwards on a rapidly narrowing ladder is evident . |
| 13 | But one or two MPs emerged from behind the public show of loyalty to warn that Mr Major has been given one last chance . |
| 14 | On cue , the rowing boat appeared from around the coastal bend and in it two topless dykes roaring and cheering were urging their little craft into the cove . |
| 15 | He had not washed merely a handkerchief either his underclothes , too , had a grey look , and so did his shirt , whose grey cuffs peeped from beneath the dirty , tattered sleeves of his morning coat . |
| 16 | Karelius crawled from beneath the wooden bivouac he had occupied during the night . |
| 17 | The seaman reappeared from behind the curtained off bunk section of the cabin . |