Example sentences of "[vb past] from [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was afternoon — the morning had gone on Crabb Robinson — which meant that all the ample , high , soft-blue leather desks along the spokes of the great wheel that radiated from the Superintendent 's desk , ensphered by the Catalogue , were taken , and he had to be content with one of the minimal flat triangular ends of the late-come segments inserted between these spokes . |
| 2 | He stood for a moment , a towering dark figure and watched as the blood — sluggish now — seeped from the boy 's mangled body . |
| 3 | Bouterse 's disagreements with Shankar stemmed from the government 's attempt to negotiate a peaceful end to the armed revolt of the Surinamese Liberation Army ( SLA ) , led by Bouterse 's former bodyguard Ronnie Brunswijk [ see pp. 37493-94 ] . |
| 4 | Its brevity , awkward composition and lukewarm style of its writing stemmed from the Committee 's revisions . |
| 5 | A potential source of an unfair offence stemmed from the pupils ' position as ‘ pupils ’ as opposed to ‘ teachers ’ where , by definition , teachers hold the ultimate authority . |
| 6 | Harris shouted from the cabriolet 's driving seat . |
| 7 | It virtually excluded from the student 's experience ( and so from the likely experience of that student 's future pupils ) any serious engagement with the imaginative and creative uses of the mother tongue . |
| 8 | Dalgliesh was aware of the heightening tension : small individual tremors of anxiety which shivered on the still , sea-scented air , unified and focused on the car door and on the tall figure which unwound from the driver 's seat , leapt easily over the low stone wall and walked deliberately across the courtyard towards them . |
| 9 | But again , Lloyd sounded dislocated from the work 's emotional current , even in the gentle , passionate slow movement exchanges with the violin , which perhaps offer the most satisfactory music . |
| 10 | When the guns exploded from the Rebecca 's beam , three of the boats capsized in the heave of the sea under the impact of the cannonballs ; in spite of their horror of the lightless waves , some of these warriors swam on , thinking to scale the vessel . |
| 11 | The incompetence of the king , and the arrogance and greed of the Despensers , had so alienated men from the court that none except the few who profited from the king 's favour would fight for him . |
| 12 | They were quiet at this early hour and the cobbled stones still glistened from the night 's rain . |
| 13 | The giant wrought-iron entrance gates , for example , came from the people of Tetbury , the fruit trees espaliered against the walls of the vegetable garden were presented by the Worshipful Company of Fruiterers and the herbs came from a women 's institute in Sussex . |
| 14 | These works came from a Morris 's glass catalogue . |
| 15 | for one thing , the group did not choose the name , which came from a reviewer 's description of a painting by Monet . |
| 16 | Terhune was an assault specialist solo who had sub-contracted for H-M on several occasions , and Rodriguez was their top Colorado Op , further qualified because he came from the quarry 's home turf . |
| 17 | He tried harder , and the whole carcase moved a little and water came from the animal 's nose and mouth . |
| 18 | With EDS funding due to end next year , ICL is lobbying the European Commission to extend financing for more software research until 1994. 50% of ICL 's EDS research budget came from the EC 's Esprit purse . |
| 19 | Everyone in the place heard the gasp that came from the Trunchbull 's throat . |
| 20 | Eventually a reply came from the Islands ' Director of Administration and Legal Services , Rowan McCallum . |
| 21 | The threat came from the ANC 's spokesman on sport , Steve Tshwete , who said his organisation are unlikely to sanction any more overseas trips . |
| 22 | They were still sitting together when Hotspur came from the prince 's apartments . |
| 23 | Another important source of secondary danger clues came from the parents ' life histories : for example , parents who had certain ‘ personality traits ’ , had been abused or ‘ in care ’ themselves as children , had been in regular ‘ trouble ’ as children or/and as adults , were seen as being more likely to harm their children . |
| 24 | All the power came from the speaker 's lungs ; he addressed the mouthpiece at a distance of about one inch , and projected his message at the top of his voice . |
| 25 | An order to this effect came from the president 's office . |
| 26 | The other bit of information came from the Bishop 's female Deacon , what was her name ? |
| 27 | It came from the paper 's Atticus column , and was a couple of years old — it looked as if Bill had n't yet got round to filing the latest news on Puddephat . |
| 28 | These plans came from the Commission 's Cultural Directorate , DG-X . |
| 29 | On the ceiling is a Baroque fresco , The Judgement of Solomon which originally came from the Burgrave 's House . |
| 30 | No weapon , no footprints , no fingerprints , all the bits of fibre caught on bushes came from the deceased 's clothes . ’ |