Example sentences of "[vb past] from [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | Direct exports by OPEC national oil companies rose from a negligible proportion of production within the area to some 50–55 per cent over the course of the 1970s . |
| 4 | Then she lit him up the stairs , and went before him into the panelled solar , where Rhodri rose from a tall chair by the fire to receive him . |
| 5 | As the two girls entered , a man rose from a deep armchair , and Sophie looked at him with interest . |
| 6 | He rose from a cushioned wicker chair as soon as he saw her and came to take the tray , saying , ‘ You 're Belinda , of course . |
| 7 | The dumpy woman went bustling into a large stone flagged kitchen where a great fire flamed in an open fireplace and the smell of roasting meat rose from a thick flank of beef on a spit . |
| 8 | Inside , a grand and generous staircase rose from a pale stone flagged hall patterned with black stone diamonds . |
| 9 | Son of a postal worker and trained as a car body builder , Floirat rose from a humble upbringing to become a major industrialist nicknamed ‘ man with the golden fingers ’ for his financial expertise . |
| 10 | In the presence of H pylori , the median G17 concentration rose from a basal value of 6 pmol/l ( <2.4–25 ) to 43 pmol/l ( 9–95 ) ( p<0.0001 ) at 20 minute postprandially , and after eradication rose from <2.4 pmol/l ( <2.4-23 ) to 17 pmol/l ( <2.4–52 ) ( p<0.0001 ) . |
| 11 | The steam rose from the cavernous sink and the furniture loomed at us like shapes in a jungle night . |
| 12 | ‘ It was banked and a pillar of smoke rose from the right wing . |
| 13 | Screams of pain and ecstasy rose from the wounded man . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Steam rose from the scant grass they lay on , from their bodies and from the concrete of the pillbox . |
| 17 | He rose from the muddy ground and began to run towards the woodland . |
| 18 | It rose from the demolished vastness of the old Army Clothing Depot . |
| 19 | She rose from the stiff armchair . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Aunt Sophie embraced her warmly and the soft scent of lavender rose from the pleated bodice of her gown . |
| 22 | Katherine rose from the little table . |
| 23 | Corbett returned to his cell , carefully bolted the door and drew from a large leather pouch , parchment , pumice-stone , inkhorn , quill pens , a long thin razor-edged knife and a wad of red sealing-wax . |
| 24 | In Edna O'Brien 's A Pagan Place , which followed Veterans at the Royal Court in 1972 , Eyre drew from a 16-year-old school girl called Veronica Quilligan , who had never acted before , a performance of exquisite subtlety and emotional truth . |
| 25 | Then , as slowly and deliberately as before , Macmillan drew from an inside pocket of his coat a smallish piece of paper and raised it to within a couple of inches of his right eye . |
| 26 | She drew from an enormous hold-all an array of archaeological cakes and buns , and displayed them with pride . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | They ranged from a tiny mouse , with lifelike whiskers and a twitchy nose , to a metre-high Pied Piper , whose grin was so wickedly triumphant that she almost expected to see the children of Hamlin following behind . |