Example sentences of "[vb -s] from the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We lie together beneath the crumpled warm sheet , and a tear trickles from the corner of my eye as if Jancey was dead . |
| 2 | Built of stone with long and short work on the corners , it is in four stages with pilaster strips from the ground to the belfry , round arches in the second stage , pointed arches in the third , and narrow window openings in the belfry . |
| 3 | Systematic multielement regional geochemical mapping of the United Kingdom landmass by the BGS 's Geochemical Survey Programme ( GSP ) has from the outset in 1968 provided regional data on the uranium levels of stream waters and on pH and conductivity , subsequently augmented by measurements of fluoride content and alkalinity . |
| 4 | The three streams which once ran beneath it have long since vanished , but , at the back of the town , the water still finds its way to the sea , as it has from the beginning of time . |
| 5 | When a patent is granted in respect of the equipment , the law of confidence drops from the scene to be replaced by patent law and , possibly , trade mark law if a registered mark is to be used with the equipment . |
| 6 | It was like being in an elevator which suddenly drops from the top of a twenty storey building to the basement . |
| 7 | The report goes on to say : ‘ Many professionals advise giving vitamin drops from the age of one month and we would support this practice , particularly if there is any doubt whatsoever about the vitamin intake at this time ’ . |
| 8 | In the latter he or she develops from the moment of birth . |
| 9 | The Moon accretes from the ring of material . |
| 10 | Nearly crash car again , as I pass what looks from the road like a progressive-minded chemist , but which turns out to be a printer 's shop . |
| 11 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 12 | The 52nd-minute header was his first Premier League goal and the blue hordes massed in the new Bridgford End stand , that looks from the outside like a poor man 's Pompidou Centre , went wild . |
| 13 | Note that appeal lies from the decision of a district judge to the designated family judge or a nominated care judge within the same court . |
| 14 | It is competent to appeal to either the sheriff or the sheriff principal , but no appeal lies from the sheriff to the sheriff principal ( Troc Sales Ltd. v. Kirkcaldy District Licensing Board , 1982 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 77 ) . |
| 15 | The high road linking the valley of the Adour to that of the Aure starts from the village of Sainte-Marie-de-Campan and crosses the Col d'Aspin . |
| 16 | One starts from the question of mind and behaviour and asks : ‘ How is it possible for a physical system , the brain , to produce this ? ’ |
| 17 | A guided walk around the South Cleveland Heritage Centre starts from the centre at Margrove Park , near Guisborough , at 10am tomorrow . |
| 18 | Just as the study of perception of the language used by deaf people starts from the discovery of difference , so does the study of memory . |
| 19 | The Second period is that which starts from the beginning of life and reaches onward to the time when the law of the survival of the fittest with its ruthlessness could no longer serve the aspirations towards increasing happiness that were beginning to creep into the dawning consciousness of primitive man . |
| 20 | Well geographically it starts from the roundabout at the bottom of Road , where Road meets Boulevard . |
| 21 | A bright yellow mantle starts from the top of the head and broadens as it stretches across the body , extending into the tail . |
| 22 | It starts from the dam at the northern end of the Talybont reservoir . |
| 23 | The trail starts from the shop in the middle of the campsite and follows a road to the east leading to a well-marked trail climbing into a plantation of larch trees . |
| 24 | Like Orwell , women 's relationship to miners starts from the basis of exclusion and mystery , but women live with the drama and danger of the pits , they live their solidarity with the pitmen . |
| 25 | It starts from the fact of disunity and asks which existing political mechanism can work best for unity . |
| 26 | As far as the author 's experience is concerned , what counts from the viewpoint of criticism is only what is embodied in the text , and that is wholly accessible to anyone with a knowledge of the language and culture to which the text belongs . |
| 27 | He writes from the perspective of later years when the dons of Magdalen were anything but congenial society to him . |
| 28 | Wrapp , in contrast , writes from the perspective of the chief executive trying to manage both the organization and his own task . |
| 29 | The area has been associated with cavalry exercises from the beginning of the 15th century . |
| 30 | But one can reasonably envisage a spectrum extending between two extremes of " language use " and " language exploitation " ; that is , between prose which conforms to the code ( Saussure 's langue ) and normal expectations of communication , and prose which deviates from the code in exploring new frontiers of communication . |