Example sentences of "[verb] risen [prep] [pos pn] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yet I believe that Satan himself , the Prince of Darkness , has risen from his cauldron in Hell and now stalks this sun-dappled place . ’ |
| 2 | Most record-company chiefs had risen to their position by one of two ways ; either they were ‘ record men ’ born and bred , who by their own taste and judgement had quietly built their own companies , or had risen through the sales and marketing ranks of some multinational to positions of prominence ; or they were lawyers or accountants , practised in the art of negotiation and creative bookkeeping . |
| 3 | Come on , now — ’ He had no need to say more because Cameron had risen to his feet in the greying light and a song was coming from him in a steady flow of sound and a hard gravelly voice that resonated like a pipe . |
| 4 | General Francis had risen from his chair by the examination couch and was supporting himself with his sticks . |
| 5 | Only in the Soviet Union could a blind woman have risen to her eminence in cinematography . |
| 6 | In Avondale Road , the Wilcox boys have risen from their beds at last and are making the most of their unsupervised occupancy of the house . |