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 | 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 . |
| 7 | Incredulous wails rose from our demoralized band but the corporal was unabashed . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | " I admit failure ! " he wrung from his sodden brain . |
| 11 | His red-rimmed eyes peered from his grimy face anxiously and Anne said swiftly , ‘ It 's all right , Tony . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The fireplan would be under the control of the company once it moved from its final assault position on to the enemy position . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He moved from our old house to a smaller house in . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The floral tribute stemmed from her first-night performance in the West End show Who Shall I Be Tomorrow ? |
| 21 | Suppose he took it thinking that his malaise stemmed from his gastric trouble ? |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ Jessa — myn ! ’ it shouted from its dry mouth . |
| 25 | ‘ Get that woman out of my house , ’ grandfather shouted from his sick bed . |
| 26 | A FAMILY fled from their new council home yesterday — because it is infested with snakes . |
| 27 | Mr and Mrs Appleby and their two children , from Wakefield , Yorks , fled from their adjoining cabins because of the foul stench . |
| 28 | In the 1950s it was only occasionally activated , with nominal headquarters in London ; and indeed any proposals on defence that emanated from its Consultative Assembly were invariably ignored by the member governments . |
| 29 | Thus charismatic leaders , whose authority emanated from their personal qualities , have followings or disciples who form the ‘ body politic ’ . |
| 30 | Gittins has also suggested that female textile workers ' apparently greater knowledge of birth control methods emanated from their female friends and acquaintances at work ( although Elizabeth Roberts ' findings have not borne this out ) . |