Example sentences of "[vb past] from [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The oil mixed with the glutinous juices which oozed from her agitated vagina to create a mess such as she 'd never known between her legs .
2 A flood of milk seeped from her open twat , and the audience chuckled at her predicament .
3 A pale , feeble line of blood seeped from his starving flesh .
4 Beth rose from her front row seat , turned , and allowed the audience to get a good look at her before making her way out .
5 Again it rose from its leafy perch and soared up into the sky .
6 Benedict rose from his own chair so hastily that it almost tipped over .
7 He rose from his enormous desk and lit a big cigar — it could n't have been a Havana — and strutted around his vast office like a peacock , admiring his reflection in the long mirror .
8 Incredulous wails rose from our demoralized band but the corporal was unabashed .
9 She glanced from one end of the kitchen to the other , noting the sparkling sink without a cup or plate in sight , and the gleaming table top , then the freshly scrubbed floor that was still damp in the corners ; the coconut matting beneath her feet bristled from its merciless thrashing .
10 He stood smiling , licking his own with relish , and wiping the ends of his moustaches where the ice dung to them , and you and Lucia , befuddled from your interrupted sleep echoed his gurgles and grunts of pleasure at the taste ; he 'd brought back a tub , filled with a variety of ice creams : ‘ A macedonia ! ’ he 'd call out , a fruit salad of ices .
11 " I admit failure ! " he wrung from his sodden brain .
12 His red-rimmed eyes peered from his grimy face anxiously and Anne said swiftly , ‘ It 's all right , Tony .
13 The outflow of his books ranged from his early verses to English Cheeses of the South and West ( 1956 ) , Jack Hobbs : Profile of the Master ( 1981 ) and Arlott on Wine .
14 The only way to compare them is to calculate what they would be paying over the whole 25 years if neither of them moved from their present home .
15 The fireplan would be under the control of the company once it moved from its final assault position on to the enemy position .
16 Quinn 's tough background dictated that he had to know how to take care of himself , especially when at a young age he moved from his native Mexico into an area of Los Angeles where everyone was either Irish , Mexican or black .
17 Transport was scarce and we had to carry special identity cards when we moved from our own villages .
18 He moved from our old house to a smaller house in .
19 When I moved from my own place er in Walmgate to here I still underestimated how much furniture I 'd got .
20 I moved from my little flat to join a transsexual community , people the other way round to me — men to psuedo-wimmin — but who understood me .
21 This , of course , stemmed from their general lack of interest in the significance of the criminal justice system — the final feature that distinguishes them from classical criminology .
22 Although much of its growth may be accounted for by the rapid increase in headhunting in financial services in the mid-1980s , the firm 's capability and success in this market stemmed from its secure reputation established over the preceding decade .
23 The floral tribute stemmed from her first-night performance in the West End show Who Shall I Be Tomorrow ?
24 Suppose he took it thinking that his malaise stemmed from his gastric trouble ?
25 Che Guevara , whose analysis stemmed from his own experiences in Guatemala in 1954 ( Hodges : 1977 , pp. 15–16 ) , said , in an interview given on 18 April 1959 :
26 When John Barbour , archdeacon of Aberdeen , wrote his long verse account of the career of Robert Bruce , king of Scots , about 1380 , he emphasised that his hero 's successes against the English stemmed from his military qualities , his understanding of his men , his appreciation of the tactics required for victory , in a word his ‘ professionalism ’ as a man in arms .
27 He bent from his great height to take her right hand into his own large one , turned it over to look at the scars and callouses hard manual labour had inflicted on its once pink and white delicacy .
28 ‘ Jessa — myn ! ’ it shouted from its dry mouth .
29 ‘ Get that woman out of my house , ’ grandfather shouted from his sick bed .
30 A FAMILY fled from their new council home yesterday — because it is infested with snakes .
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