Example sentences of "[vb past] from the [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She rose from the bed where she had spread out the rosettes , strode to the window and stared down into the garden . |
| 2 | He rose from the table forlornly , addressing his attention to the crease on his trouser leg . |
| 3 | He rose from the table then , pushing a chair roughly out of his way , and Robyn flinched at the severity of his expression . |
| 4 | Jessie rose from the table now , but she did n't move away from it , she leant her hands on the edge of it and , bending towards Agnes and in a mere whisper now , she said , ‘ Father 's got to understand that I have a life of my own ; I 'm not a china doll to be babied . ’ |
| 5 | The two men rose from the table together . |
| 6 | His flatmate had a mistress in Hampstead and so was seldom there , but the flat was squalid and the scents of garlic and oregano rose from the kitchens below . |
| 7 | Slowly , Emily rose from the chair where she had seen her father seated many times , not knowing the problems he faced or understanding how troubled he was . |
| 8 | BUDAPEST — The Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party , extinguished at the weekend by its congress , rose from the ashes yesterday in Budapest 's communist heartland , the industrial district of Csepel , Imre Karacs writes . |
| 9 | The Council of Mortgage Lenders announced on February 14th that the number of people who lost their homes last year because they could not keep up their mortgage payments nearly tripled from the year before . |
| 10 | Miss Evans moved from the sink where she 'd been all this time , standing quite still , and started to clear the plates from the table . |
| 11 | Why is n't it shouted from the start so that everybody knows from the start who you are ? |
| 12 | Mother took one tiny look down at all the people looking up — made a long , low moaning noise and fled from the box never to return . |
| 13 | The face , the hand and the candle withdrew backwards , still smiling at him , for the smile seemed to embrace all three , as though the withdrawing brightness emanated from the man rather than the flame . |
| 14 | The boy Crinan and Lulach strolled from the table together . |
| 15 | Then finally , Paul Reichmann saw the opportunity he had been waiting for in London , a city he fondly recalled from the days when he studied there as a young man . |
| 16 | I was shown into a bare room where paper spilled from the desks then taken back round the main hall . |
| 17 | RITUALISTIC as it was , the Tory grass-roots ' orgiastic display of support for their leader came from the heart yesterday . |
| 18 | May I on behalf of my right hon. and hon. Friends point out that the disgraceful barracking and shouting which came from the mob opposite during the reply was clearly an exercise orchestrated by the Labour Whips ? |
| 19 | ’ So they romanced for a time , whispering on the edge of sleep , until a noise of footsteps , first a few and then large numbers , came from the road outside . |
| 20 | All that came from the time when Central News was transmitted from Birmingham . |
| 21 | That was how he looked , but Trent hoped that part of the dead-eye effect came from the President not wearing his spectacles . |
| 22 | But enough light came from the landing on to which the door opened to silhouette the man standing there . |
| 23 | The assurance eventually came from the ARC literally minutes before the final deadline set by the Task Force for their abandonment of the project , and their promise to publicly disclose their reasons . |
| 24 | One came from a great fire on the shore where the pirates sat singing and drinking ; the other came from the Hispaniola out at sea . |
| 25 | Most income came from the hiring out of paladins as mercenaries in territorial disputes . |
| 26 | He had been trembling violently for several hours but now no sound came from the place where he lay . |
| 27 | and er , which we finished , and I would really just like to say that erm , thanks very much for the cooperation that we received from the offices generally across the authority . |
| 28 | In her most recent show , d2 , Butcher 's dancers wore plain black or white trousers and T-shirts and danced from the stage up on to catwalks ; architectural drawings were projected and electronic music accompanied them . |
| 29 | He collected their drinks and turned from the bar where he had been at the centre of a laughing group of men who frequently glanced at her curiously . |
| 30 | Bunty , in a rather grubby pink kimono , turned from the mirror where she was padding her face with a caked flat powderpuff . |