Example sentences of "[vb past] from the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His shop was in the merchants ' quarter of the city — a maze of buildings which had been divided and sub-divided , so great was the demand for space , which lay within the strictly enforced boundaries of the streets which radiated from the Golden Yurt like the spokes of a wheel . |
| 2 | Vale dominated the first 45 minutes against a Stockport side they dismissed from the second division play-off last Wednesday . |
| 3 | The steam rose from the cavernous sink and the furniture loomed at us like shapes in a jungle night . |
| 4 | ‘ It was banked and a pillar of smoke rose from the right wing . |
| 5 | Screams of pain and ecstasy rose from the wounded man . |
| 6 | It had been a hot summer , and dust rose from the rough flags as they settled . |
| 7 | Edward II 's cousin and the most powerful of his earls , he rose from the middle ranks of the gentry into the upper ranks of the baronage . |
| 8 | Few , if any , rose from the lowest rank , but nonetheless there was a career path open to prison governors to progress through the intermediate rank of Assistant Commissioner to a full Commissionership . |
| 9 | He rose from the ridiculous chair and made his way carefully down the crowded row , responding politely to those who greeted him by name , noting with carefully repressed surprise that two of the women who gave him private little smiles were seated next to each other , friends who had no idea they had something more than friendship in common . |
| 10 | Steam rose from the scant grass they lay on , from their bodies and from the concrete of the pillbox . |
| 11 | Ochre dust rose from the blazing pavements . |
| 12 | He rose from the muddy ground and began to run towards the woodland . |
| 13 | It rose from the demolished vastness of the old Army Clothing Depot . |
| 14 | She rose from the stiff armchair . |
| 15 | Amun , " the hidden one " , was an early deity , later described in the creation legend of Hermopolis as a formless god who rose from the primeval ocean . |
| 16 | Aunt Sophie embraced her warmly and the soft scent of lavender rose from the pleated bodice of her gown . |
| 17 | Katherine rose from the little table . |
| 18 | We drew from the four books ( two double volumes ) and took the occasional snippet from our fellow adaptors . |
| 19 | Some of these are essentially historical : the interest developed in part as a reaction or antidote to Chomsky 's treatment of language as an abstract device , or mental ability , dissociable from the uses , users and functions of language ( an abstraction that Chomsky in part drew from the post-Bloomfieldian structuralism that predominated immediately before transformational generative grammar ) . |
| 20 | He drew from the high soprano instrument sounds totally different from what we think of as saxophone tone , remarkably pure and wide-ranging in timbre and dynamic . |
| 21 | She finally found her voice , screaming as she bolted from the hideous life-form that was shaping even as she watched into the form , the outward appearance of a dead human . |
| 22 | Most of her life was spent pushing barges loaded with silt dredged from the narrow canals around Birmingham . |
| 23 | He was holding a cage in his hands , dredged from the bottom-most depths of the Luggage . |
| 24 | Diehard opinions ranged from the virulent obscurantism of Northumberland , Page Croft and Cooper , who saw politics as a black-and-white struggle between good British imperial-minded Christians and Jewish-dominated marxist wreckers , to the high-minded Association of Independent Peers , who were primarily concerned with the effect of coalition on the standards of public life and its failure to halt the drift towards class politics . |
| 25 | This smaller and shyer animal once ranged from the Spanish Sierra Nevada to the Urals , but has suffered greatly in the last century from hunting and the disturbance of agricultural development . |
| 26 | The more strictly domestic staff of the Chamber ranged from the four esquires of the body through the fairly honorific bannerets , knights of the household , and chaplains to a range of lesser men : grooms , pages , yeomen , doctors , surgeons , barbers , minstrels , masters of grammar , messengers ; and so on . |
| 27 | These ranged from the mighty Rutland and Ampair models to the Forgen , an entirely different design of wind generator which has deeper vanes that rotate round a vertical shaft . |
| 28 | Organs ranged from the 1,000 guinea pipe organ to ‘ The Sunday School Union 's ‘ New Baby Organ ’ ’ which sold for five guineas and promised a ‘ very sweet tone ’ . |
| 29 | Punishments ranged from the formal reprimand to outright dismissal . |
| 30 | Her diets ranged from the high protein steak and salad to the Hay diet , which cuts out eating starch and protein at the same time . |