Example sentences of "and [verb] from [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His application of the variation principle to plainsong , Lutheran hymns , and Huguenot psalms goes far beyond the ‘ organ hymns ’ and versets of earlier generations , and differs from his secular variations in that the basic melody is generally preserved intact as cantus firmus in one part or another throughout . |
| 2 | Even a Roman road might be interfered with in this way and diverted from its ancient line ; and in the course of time its exact line became lost and the subject of an archaeological problem today . |
| 3 | ‘ It needs a born Highlander to understand aright our Scottish Highlanders ’ , goes on JTR , ‘ and to gather from them all the lore they know , so as to give us pictures that will live on in after ages . |
| 4 | Newspaper correspondents and representatives of the Ministry of Information were frequent visitors to Burma , and we did our best to give them what news we had , to tell them about government hopes and plans , and to extract from them any news and wisdom they had to give us . |
| 5 | The sun 's warmth falls on my body , its rays filling me and driving from me all fear and shadows . |
| 6 | At Tennis World , we try to bring all of your favourites to your door step by way of our fan club services , six newsletters a year , giving news , views , results and quotes from your favourite players . |
| 7 | Continuing with the above situation , when young carers do eventually withdraw their help and support from their ageing parent , they will almost inevitably feel guilty . |
| 8 | Limp and detached from her fast-shifting surroundings — maybe overwhelmed by those — she needed to be guided , almost carried along by Meh'Lindi for a while . |
| 9 | And his voice befitted his size , a great hull bellow surging from the depths of his powerful chest and booming from his gaping jaws . |
| 10 | It was hardly surprising that kings wanted solemn oaths from their servants , the bishops , that they looked upon bishoprics as income and that , in line with the symbolic ceremonies of society , they expected to " invest " their appointees and to receive from them solemn oaths of fidelity . |
| 11 | AS DAY DAWNED in the remote jungle of the Venezuelan Amazonas the traveller reached for his sodden clothes and rotting boots , shook them free of invading ants and poisonous hairy caterpillars , and crawled from his smelly , fungus-covered mosquito net . |
| 12 | West Indians , for example , were , less than two hundred years ago , sold into slavery and separated from their African culture . |
| 13 | Some doubts having been expressed about the validity of her divorce in America , I caused enquiries to be made and received from my American agents copies of the decree of divorce which was issued on 7 April 1961 . |
| 14 | The germanium layer confines the charges just under the skin , preventing them from bumping into the surface and scattering from their designated path through the transistor . |
| 15 | Images of food drew it onwards to the tall , detached house at the end of the street ; thoughts of petting and cuddling from its playful , pleasant owners made it scamper through the shadows . |
| 16 | Sainsbury maintains tight control of costs and benefits from its large investment programme were behind its success with capital expenditure expected to reach £800m by the end of the year . |
| 17 | Those giving papers were asked to emphasize humans as meaning-makers , rather than humans as biological primates , and to elucidate from their own ethnographic experience the indigenous meanings of concepts relevant for an understanding of human interpersonal and , wherever applicable , intersocietal relations . |
| 18 | All these reminiscences told the same story : a big , healthy , gregarious man , full of fun and sport , always living life to the full and extracting from it all the juice it contained , and more . |
| 19 | If , on the other hand , he refuses to accept this relationship and responds from his own adult ( Y ) on a ‘ do n't talk to me like that ’ basis to the adult or child of the first individual , this is a new stimulus and the transaction has broken down . |
| 20 | Aloof and separate from her ugly dress , Nicandra 's beauty had an air-blown helpless quality divided from her proper self — the self that carried whisky to cloakroom maids and , in the act , lost her man . |
| 21 | It is now necessary to draw some of these strands together and reach some general conclusions about the merit of the Essex project , and to derive from them some prescriptions for action for anyone seeking to enhance library provision in similar ways . |
| 22 | He draws and paints from his flayed nerves as much as from his baulked emotions . |
| 23 | But David Evans was a fair-minded young man , and knew from his historical studies that bad luck can not be avoided by even the greatest of men . |
| 24 | 2 Chron 7.14 — ‘ If my people , who are called by My Name , will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land . ’ |
| 25 | And judging from his own reactions he knew that was impossible . |
| 26 | Watt found great difficulty in working with the Cornish mine captains and obtaining from them full payment for the engines they had built or modified . |
| 27 | Everything he did was enriched by a warm concern for other people that inspired affection from even slight acquaintances , and love from his closer colleagues . |
| 28 | In the first method the scrap value of the asset at the end of its life is estimated and deducted from its original cost to the company . |
| 29 | In the first method the scrap value of the asset at the end of its life is estimated and deducted from its original cost to the company . |
| 30 | He gripped her arm and pointed imperiously to the seat and she was glad to hurry and escape from his hard hand . |