Example sentences of "and [verb] from [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This doorway was made high in order to permit laden waggons or carts to enter the barn and to unload from the threshing floor into the bays . |
| 2 | By the wall stood a rattan couch with cushions ; and hanging from a bracket by the open french windows was a small brightly polished bell with a faded maroon tassel hanging from the clapper . |
| 3 | And hanging from a hook in its holster , her father 's army revolver . |
| 4 | Today I want you to turn that corner and change from a feeling of ‘ I 'm never going to do it ’ to ‘ I will do it ’ . |
| 5 | The second story came from Branson himself , and arose from a tip-off from a journalist named Carla Dobson who worked as the assistant to the Daily Mail gossip-columnist Nigel Dempster . |
| 6 | They acknowledge that elephants and man , for instance , have a very close relationship , having climbed the evolutionary ladder side by side , losing hair together , returning to and re-emerging from the sea again , growing warm blood , emotion and long memories . |
| 7 | Power is seen as residing in office , and stemming from the bureaucrat 's high social prestige and wide discretion to act within very broadly defined colonial policies . |
| 8 | And at 6.15 Miss Danziger entered the drawing-room , where at least eighteen of the guests were gathered drinking tea and eating from a selection of Danish pastries and pies , and talking with unusual excitement . |
| 9 | although many famous names were missing from the register : notably Moffatt , Nadin , Legrand ( already sure of retaining his crown and recovering from a knee operation ) , Rabatou , Godoffe , Cortijo and Edlinger . |
| 10 | Kit ordered Ariel brought , so that the islanders could see she was as well as could be expected , and recovering from the wound to her thigh . |
| 11 | The decree was intended to wipe out the illegal cash holdings of black-marketeers , and to drain from the economy up to 20 per cent of the money supply , which had become bloated by the printing of new money to cover budget deficits in recent years . |
| 12 | Added attractions include Sound Garden Club DJs Tony Ross , Nipper and The Spinmasters from Manchester as well as Fabian and Grooverider from the capital . |
| 13 | It too will have extra time and kicks from the penalty spot if necessary . |
| 14 | She stood up , on legs that were stiff and aching , and limped from the cruig-morn , massaging circulation back into her flesh . |
| 15 | To measure oesophageal body motility , variables measured were : ( 1 ) amplitude of contraction ( mm Hg ) , defined as the difference between the baseline pressure and the maximal pressure during the pressure event ; ( 2 ) duration of contraction ( s ) , defined as the time elapsed between the start and the end of the pressure event ; ( 3 ) area under the pressure curve ( mm Hg×s ) , calculated from the sum of all pressure values between the start and the end of the pressure event , multiplied by the sampling interval ; ( 4 ) propagation velocity ( cm/s ) , defined as the speed of a contraction and calculated from the delay time and the distance between the sensors ; ( 5 ) contractility ( mm Hg/s ) , defined as the maximal increment between consecutive pressure values divided by the sampling interval ; ( 6 ) total contractions ( No/24 h ) , defined as pressure curves that are not rejected as artifacts ; ( 7 ) propagated contractions ( No/24 h ) , defined as contractions that are detected by a proximal pressure transducer and followed by a contraction at the distal sensor . |
| 16 | ‘ He was wounded in the war and paralysed from the waist down . |
| 17 | The award to David Robinson , now 25 and paralysed from the neck down , came after Deputy Judge Patrick Bennett , QC , had expressed amazement at the initial failure of negotiations to reach a settlement in his damages claim . |
| 18 | In each case the pipette should be gently inserted and withdrawn from the fluid in order to minimize disturbance . |
| 19 | In this period , all South African military forces must be disbanded and withdrawn from the country except for a residual force of 1,500 troops who will be confined to bases at Grootfontein and Oshivello . |
| 20 | How much true do you think there is in the picture of a scientist as highly intelligent , completely amoral and withdrawn from the world . |
| 21 | More recently , Russian philologists have proposed a super-family of languages , bigger than Indo-European and deriving from a proto-language ( Nostratic ) twice as old . |
| 22 | With that last heave , Maurice 's anchor had wrenched clear of the mud , and the mooring-ropes , unable to take the whole weight of the barge , pulled free and parted from the shore . |
| 23 | And peer from a door , as if for his life , wondering |
| 24 | It is 355mm long and fits from the back to the front of a wardrobe , extending forward a further 210mm . |
| 25 | He knew the feeling of old — operating outside the rules and hidden from the surveillance of his superiors . |
| 26 | However , four goals in the last 23 minutes quietened the boos and whistles from a crowd which arrived with great expectations and feared they would go home asking for more , much more . |
| 27 | George Bower first examined its possibilities and lowered from the top to a distinctive ledge beneath the steepest section . |
| 28 | There were shouts and jeers from every part of the huge auditorium . |
| 29 | These are , at best , no more than useful physical aids to illustrate the mechanical response and suffer from the disadvantage that a given process may be described in this way using more than one arrangement of springs and dashpots . |
| 30 | As vicar , the Rev W H Dale Chapman owned a piece of land which went down to the lake but , when he began to plan such a service , the idea came to him to follow the example of Christ and preach from a boat . |