Example sentences of "from [adv] [pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From somewhere she could hear a lecturer droning ; maybe it needed speeding up a little . |
| 2 | From below he could see that its skin was strangely pale and pink between its wide-straddled hind legs and the tight black bag of its scrotum , he thought , seemed incongruously small and toylike for such a massive , murderous animal . |
| 3 | From inside we could hear screams of ‘ please , open the door ! ’ |
| 4 | From inside she could hear raised voices and a shrill cry , as if someone were in pain . |
| 5 | From henceforth he shall continue To judge hatred and arrogance . |
| 6 | We 'll find , while he 's just finding that look there 's just one more item that 's erm a Christmas card from so I 'll pass that round so you can have a while we 're just trying to find . |
| 7 | From outside he could hear the muted hum of London 's traffic . |
| 8 | I 've seen the film of this where they 're trying to g and all around from outside you can see the graves the graveyard . |
| 9 | There is , therefore , before any understanding of historic agents and movements , a certain aporia in all social ensembles : from afar they may appear whole , but close to , they can be seen as riddled with holes . |
| 10 | A decade from now we 'll wonder what the fuss was about . |
| 11 | You 're talking about about two months from now we 'd have our first year anniversary . |
| 12 | In five years time from now it will have developed into an all powerful , constitutionally independent institution responsible for the Community 's monetary and exchange rate policies . |
| 13 | Sixty years from now you will bless him . |
| 14 | I am now looking forward to coming home , and am thinking that a fortnight from now I should have arrived in Hong Kong . |
| 15 | From behind I could have been a man with my hood up . |
| 16 | From behind he could hear horses whinneying , brakes applied , a crash and splintering wood . |
| 17 | From tomorrow they will have BA flight numbers . |
| 18 | sort of , to put it , I 'm gon na be is that as from tomorrow we will have identified what erm desking and so on will be moved during the reorganization erm , and obviously any of the desking that is n't gon na be moved until the organization , we 'll be tidying up the cables . |
| 19 | but you know that er our Susan wanted to go down to erm , get her hair done this morning so erm I says to her come up here , we 'll get a taxi from here we 'll go down the hairdressers and shall permission to collect our money , so we got a taxi from here down to erm what they call that street where er that erm oh dear me Street |
| 20 | From here we could go on to explore how the people in the castle manage without Melric . |
| 21 | From here we could see for quite a distance , but there was no sign of the hunt , nor any sound . |
| 22 | From here we can suggest that , perhaps , all stars vary their output periodically , but that for obvious practical reason we have no way of knowing that this is so in the case of stars whose periods are sufficiently long . |
| 23 | ‘ Look , Master Corbett , from here we can see all the river in our view , but if we were in a boat on that river , what would we see ? |
| 24 | From here they can move forward to interpose themselves when the enemy is too close . |
| 25 | From here they can see convoys coming half a mile away . |
| 26 | From here they must await their wave , drop into it , and be swept beneath the overhang into the cave where they grope around in total darkness filling their bags with birds ' nests . |
| 27 | From here they could control both river valleys , and deny Douglas his passage home by either . |
| 28 | From here they could see a light from an inner window of the gatehouse . |
| 29 | From here he could observe the great world outside , before plunging back into it . |
| 30 | From here he could see the two talking men quite clearly , and he picked up various objects on display , looking at them quite interestedly , and keeping only half an eye on the scene outside . |