Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he 'd been able to keep from gloating , she 'd have ended up in his bed , which was what he 'd intended right from the beginning . |
| 2 | TAFF Gregory , the Army cook who won a Gulf War BEM ( Eating Out August 14 ) , has quickly marched on from the Hartforth Hall Hotel at Gilling West , near Richmond . |
| 3 | Well the thing is you see I think wha from what I 've gathered on from the radio programme is that the actual erm the attitude of the kids to the metro had got so much worse that they 're having to do something about it |
| 4 | National Guardsmen and military police flown in from the USA to help stem looting in the immediate aftermath of the hurricane were withdrawn gradually towards the end of the year . |
| 5 | Nineteen Cubans and Spaniards were allowed to disembark , plus three passengers with authentic visas ; the remaining 900 or so Jews waited for news of the negotiations which involved , variously , the Cuban President , his director of immigration , the shipping line , the local relief committee , the ship 's captain and a lawyer flown in from the New York headquarters of the Joint Distribution Committee . |
| 6 | The competitors were in various categories for judging and were to be judged by professionals specially flown in from the States . |
| 7 | Not just Giles 's spite-filled revenge , but the expression in Nathan Bryce 's eyes as he had gazed down from the dais . |
| 8 | A month later , Churchill told the Commons that the role of the ‘ overlords ’ had developed naturally from the functions of Cabinet-committee chairmen in the Second World War and that ‘ the co-ordinating Ministers have no statutory powers . |
| 9 | Topics are likely to be examined only from the viewpoints held within the individual disciplines . |
| 10 | Fearfully , Seb drew closer and could see her dress had been ripped down from the neck to waist . |
| 11 | In this damp clay I had left footprints , and over these footprints I now found the splayed-out pug marks of the tigress where she had jumped down from the rocks and followed me , until the kakar had seen her and given its alarm-call , whereon the tigress had left the track and entered the bushes where I had seen the movement . |
| 12 | Her family have travelled down from the city to the Devon hospital where the attack happened . |
| 13 | She had heard enough from the Julians to recognise in the disrepair something of the troubles of the Dersinghams . |
| 14 | Patched together from the remnants of the Docklands ramp which some yonks back had been acquired by Neil , Liverpool 's mini was a pretty unconventional affair — big transistors tweaked with smaller ones , no more then a few feet of flat bottom — and it rode like a ditch . |
| 15 | It is a convention in Elizabethan drama that slander is always believed , which can be explained perhaps from the necessities of the limited time available , or is perhaps a truth about life ( how many of us instantly disbelieve bad report ? ) . |
| 16 | For our experiments we used a cubical tank of water seeded with silicon carbide grit of fairly uniform size , which was cooled uniformly from the top . |
| 17 | With their emphasis on a world of forest spirits and magical dominations , they seem to have differed little from the experiences and practices of mainland Northern Europe . |
| 18 | Siddhi , who had been Foreign Minister for 10 years but was considered hostile to Chatichai 's Cambodia policy and to any rapprochement with Vietnam [ see p. 37654 ] , was dropped altogether from the government . |
| 19 | Yet he is included quite correctly on the Bayeux memorial to the missing as belonging to the S.A.S. By some error , however , his name is omitted altogether from the Edinburgh University war memorial under the arches of the Old Quad , where daily we used to meet . |
| 20 | Then this pantomime carried on from the coast . |
| 21 | Otherwise whoever it was would probably have come in from the corridor . |
| 22 | A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time . |
| 23 | It was a relief when Stephen Copley , the Senior Chemist , arrived just before ten , bustling in as usual , his rubicund face with its tonsure and fringe of black curly hair glistening as if he had come in from the sun . |
| 24 | The train had come in from the sidings and stood in the station , warm and pulsing , its engines reattached , the horses and grooms on board and fresh foods and ice loaded . |
| 25 | Ray had come in from the country bank and we sat with Margaret through the short service . |
| 26 | OVER the past two years , Swedish investors have come in from the cold . |
| 27 | The majority of domestic workers are young women without any formal education who have come in from the countryside . |
| 28 | Then , when the horse is brought out of the stable , instead of just walking quietly along ( which it would if it had just come in from the paddock ) , it is jumping out of its skin , ready to spook and shy at anything , nostrils dilated , eyes bulging , and tail hoisted high . |
| 29 | ‘ This report has just come in from the Environments Officer . |
| 30 | It was quite soon after the terrible motor accident that had crippled him for life , and she had just come in from the garden with a bunch of flowers for him . |