Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb past] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The world bank , the world bank is actually a branch started from the U N. Yes ? |
| 2 | ‘ A runner came from the front trenches , down the communicating trench . |
| 3 | Hussa arrived with her mother and while Shama eased herself on to the carpet and settled against a cushion , Hussa picked up one of the newspapers which a driver brought from the village each morning . |
| 4 | A year and a half earlier , she had lost her previous camp home when a shell fired from the Israeli-armed Lebanese Christian enclave to the south hit the roof . |
| 5 | It was just after 9 p.m. that a PC arrived from the railway station carrying a small brown envelope , which Morse accepted with delight , smiling radiantly at Lewis but saying nothing as he slit open the top and looked briefly inside . |
| 6 | He was also asleep when a gramophone blared from the open window of a flat in the block across the way . |
| 7 | Only a murmur rose from the town below me . |
| 8 | The shape of a vardo loomed in the twilight and the whinny of a horse came from the trees . |
| 9 | As I passed the bottom of Crag Woods a figure emerged from the undergrowth . |
| 10 | I was just getting back into the driving seat when there was a shout and a figure emerged from the gully about fifty metres above me . |
| 11 | A figure emerged from the doorway , a figure almost as gigantic as he . |
| 12 | As they entered the yard a figure rose from the side of a pile of tins lying on the unpaved part of the ground , in his hand what looked like a piece of iron guttering . |
| 13 | We were playing The Nortons , a side collated from the villages of Great and Little Norton , two hamlets whose relative size made it difficult for the outside observer to decide which was which . |
| 14 | One floor above , a light blinked from the implant on Jonathan 's left wrist , but he tinkered on with his impossible screwdriver . |
| 15 | Eventually a reply came from the Islands ' Director of Administration and Legal Services , Rowan McCallum . |
| 16 | A heron rose from the river and flapped away into a clump of tall trees in the distance . |
| 17 | It used to be thought that a binary resulted from the fission or breaking-up of a formerly single star which was spinning rapidly , and became unstable . |
| 18 | A car emerged from the dark between two tenements and passed by the building , slowed by the still-growing crowd . |
| 19 | And one day a lady came from the clinic . |
| 20 | The light above the front door was switched off , and a cleaner emerged from the theatre with a black plastic bag of rubbish and a broom , and began to brush the foyer , ignoring Jude — who was the last visible occupant — until he reached her , when he gave her a glance of such venom she decided to put up her umbrella and stand on the darkened step . |
| 21 | A girl emerged from the dairy with a pan of milk and was instantly surrounded by the stable cats , mewing pleadingly as though they had not caught a single mouse for days . |
| 22 | A girl appeared from the next room . |
| 23 | A guard emerged from the hut behind the boomgate and approached the Golf . |
| 24 | It is the generally accepted method of succession in our family , but , ’ the corpse sighed , or at least a sigh came from the air a few feet above it , ‘ it soon became obvious that none of my three children is sufficiently powerful to wrest the lordship of the Wyrmberg from the other two . |
| 25 | Leeds goal came with a move started from the middle of the Oldham half with a ball stabbed forward from McAllister ( probably the only thing either good or bad he did all night ) to Speed on the edge of the box . |
| 26 | Below the wood , a curlew started from the grass and winged beneath us , its mate calling from across the dale . |
| 27 | But not a sound came from the cottage , and Virginia grew bold enough to glance across at it . |
| 28 | Johnson mordantly remarked that the only propaganda for such a conference emanated from the State Department ; he endorsed the recommendations of the joint chiefs that no conference be held . |
| 29 | As we drank our coffee , a lorry arrived from the main group to pick up Macier whose blisters had burst , preventing him from walking . |
| 30 | In the final volume , Proust speaks of involuntary memory as being used in art , being used in such a way that , and I quote , ‘ this moment , freed from the bondage of time , recreates within us the sensation of a self freed from the bondage of time . ’ |