Example sentences of "and [verb] from the " 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 | There are African masks and Polynesian sculptures bought at Sotheby 's ; goats ' skulls slung over doors ; and hanging from the walls are his own canvases — massive primitive paintings that he says are fertility symbols of women . |
| 3 | Driving through the market place I thought again that Darrowby on Christmas Day was like Dickens come to life ; the empty square with the snow thick on the cobbles and hanging from the eaves of the fretted lines of roofs ; the shops closed and the coloured lights of the Christmas trees winking at the windows of the clustering houses , warmly inviting against the cold white bulk of the fells behind . |
| 4 | Greenery was everywhere , in bowls and screens and hanging from the open balustrades , giving the teahouse the look of an overgrown garden . |
| 5 | For the rest of the war Youth Allyah depended on its own brave attempts at self-sufficiency and , when these failed , on charitable appeals and grants from the RCM . |
| 6 | There are now several benefits — family credit , free school meals , housing benefit and grants from the Social Fund , for example — that can help families in financial need , but the processes of application and appeal for these are complex enough to warrant the assistance of social workers in many instances . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I was bitten by a neighbour 's dog and heard from the police that the same dog had bitten two other ladies — a Mrs Gentles and a Mrs Savage ! |
| 10 | A man-made millpond with a splashing waterfall can be seen and heard from the rear rooms . |
| 11 | While I sulked in the tent , nursing my wounds and recovering from the thorough sandbagging , Mick was hatching a plan . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The economists did n't get to this position by hanging back and wingeing from the sidelines . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The Builder pointed out that although Scott ‘ has sought not the style of any particular country , but Gothic in abstract , and gathered from the works of all countries ’ , perhaps because of the numerous secular mediaeval buildings in Italy , the character of his design ‘ is more Italian , or at least Continental than it is English ’ . |
| 16 | Added attractions include Sound Garden Club DJs Tony Ross , Nipper and The Spinmasters from Manchester as well as Fabian and Grooverider from the capital . |
| 17 | It too will have extra time and kicks from the penalty spot if necessary . |
| 18 | She stood up , on legs that were stiff and aching , and limped from the cruig-morn , massaging circulation back into her flesh . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The results show an excellent correlation between the quantity of bicarbonate infused into the oesophagus and that measured and calculated from the aspirates ( correlation coefficient r=0.965 , p=0.0001 , Fig 4 ) . |
| 21 | The collapse first of the Roman Empire in the fifth century and consequent withdrawal of protection and influence from the states of the Empire — England , France , Germany , Spain — and , later , the phased withdrawals of the Eastern half of the Roman Empire eastwards to Byzantium , left behind chaos , disruption and the total collapse of Roman civilised life in the countries of western Europe . |
| 22 | It has been suggested that this linear design process should be replaced by a cyclical process , whereby at each stage of development of the system there would be opportunity for feedback and influence from the users and their representatives . |
| 23 | On 20 January 1301 he met his Parliament at Lincoln , which had been summoned to consider the reports of the commissioners for disafforestment , and asked from the magnates a declaration that he could ratify the perambulations without injuring the Crown or violating his coronation oath . |
| 24 | In sharp contrast , Art of the Persian Courts : Selections from the Art and History Trust Collection by Abodala Soudavar gives a survey of Iranian and Persian manuscript painting , calligraphy and drawing from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries ( £55 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ He was wounded in the war and paralysed from the waist down . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Usually they cleared underbrush and weeds from the rubber groves from one o'clock until sunset , but the new quotas ordered by Duclos that morning meant they had to tap and collect from more than a hundred extra trees through the hot afternoon although their energies were largely spent . |
| 28 | THE COST of comprehensive insurance premiums should drop now that one of the major insurance companies has followed General Accident and withdrawn from the ‘ knock-for-knock ’ agreement . |
| 29 | In each case the pipette should be gently inserted and withdrawn from the fluid in order to minimize disturbance . |
| 30 | 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 . |