Example sentences of "[vb past] from [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here and there logs surfaced from it like the inclined hulls of sinking ships . |
| 2 | Reluctantly she made her way back to the house , then gave a gasp of dismay as Penry erupted from it like a rocket . |
| 3 | Before the side-car receded from her along the straight avenue , she observed a gun case ( sometimes Anderson shot the bogs with Dada ) , a rod case , and a bulging Gladstone bag tied together in the space ( called the well ) situated between the opposite wings of the sidecar . |
| 4 | Yeah hall hired from you for a function |
| 5 | ‘ It came from me in the first place , did n't it ? |
| 6 | She turned from him on the words and was aware that her tone had risen at the last . |
| 7 | He turned from her with a casual wave of his hand and began making his way back towards the barn . |
| 8 | He stabbed a man scrambling up the bulwarks beside him , and cheered as Hector 's galleys swept up to the shore and another horde of Macleans poured from them to the rescue of their clansmen . |
| 9 | Eliot borrowed from it for The Waste Land , thus making it permanently famous ; Pound could not have known of it in 1911 , but if he had then visited the Templars ' cavern-church in Aubeterre he could hardly have failed to remember it in the light of jessie Weston 's argument . |
| 10 | Lesley walked to the microphone as the chairperson retreated from it to a spatter of applause . |
| 11 | I did n't know and I hid from them in the semantics lab when they came to shrink me , and I sold myself to someone who did n't know how to do it . |
| 12 | The cat withdrew from her like a sooty ghost and stole away along the slope towards the standing stone . |
| 13 | He spread it out , and glanced from it to the screen . |
| 14 | How the hell was he going to get the information he required from her with the conductor prattling about ? |
| 15 | She shook her hips , and the flimsy garment fell from her like a leaf from a tree , revealing her glorious nudity . |
| 16 | Doyle looked from him to the Woman and back again and his face twisted into an expression of complete scorn . |
| 17 | Michael looked from him to the offending cigarette and back again , then reluctantly stubbed it out . |
| 18 | Caroline looked from him to the wall . |
| 19 | He looked from me to the suitcase and back again in amazement . |
| 20 | Maxim looked from her to the marble and back . |
| 21 | ‘ I have n't any serious plans to marry him , if that 's what you 're asking , ’ she told him as levelly as she could , and had the hardest work in the world in hanging on to her temper when his glance flicked from her through the open door into her sitting-room . |
| 22 | At dawn he walked again , and coming to a boating lake he drank from it like a horse , and filled his rubber bag . |
| 23 | If Simon had n't had other things on his mind — if he had n't been distracted by you — ’ the word burst from him with a violence which made her recoil ‘ — he would never have made that fatal error . ’ |
| 24 | The words burst from him in an angry rush , and she glanced at him in surprise . |
| 25 | All my frustration burst from me in a torrent of incoherent shouts and I grabbed the chain and began to pull on it frenziedly . |
| 26 | ‘ By adding up the days migraine stole from me in the past , I calculate that I shall be able to enjoy living for three extra weeks in a year ! ’ |
| 27 | George slid from us into the darkness . |