Example sentences of "[vb past] from [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here and there logs surfaced from it like the inclined hulls of sinking ships . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ It came from me in the first place , did n't it ? |
| 4 | She turned from him on the words and was aware that her tone had risen at the last . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He spread it out , and glanced from it to the screen . |
| 9 | How the hell was he going to get the information he required from her with the conductor prattling about ? |
| 10 | Doyle looked from him to the Woman and back again and his face twisted into an expression of complete scorn . |
| 11 | Michael looked from him to the offending cigarette and back again , then reluctantly stubbed it out . |
| 12 | Caroline looked from him to the wall . |
| 13 | He looked from me to the suitcase and back again in amazement . |
| 14 | Maxim looked from her to the marble and back . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 17 | George slid from us into the darkness . |