Example sentences of "and [verb] from [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Infants who die of dehydration , their tongues blackened ( their mothers say ) and hanging from their mouths , compete for attention with equally brutal images of thirst-driven sertanejos who walk hundreds of kilometres to escape the drought of the sertão or hinterland . |
| 2 | I see me in my shame , the horror of this hour ; mascara fallout littering my face like ashes , my skin dank with the sweat of Crilly and myself , my underwear torn and hanging from my hips , and me , small and stoned and sobbing , beneath the stern emphatic white of Siobhan 's cross . |
| 3 | According to Western reports , during the first months of 1990 the Khmers Rouges increased their infiltration of fighters and supplies from their border camps into Cambodia proper . |
| 4 | At the age of seven he had been put on a ship to Britain , kissed by his mother and sisters , shaken hands with by his Pop , and banished from their sight for the next eleven years , save two brief holidays . |
| 5 | He packed his belongings , made his goodbyes , and parted from his hosts . |
| 6 | There was a much-told tale of her Australian infancy that was held to be prophetic in this respect — about how at the age of three she had , by the sheer force of her will , compelled her uncle Walter ( who was taking her for a walk to the local shops at the time ) to put all the money he had on his person into a charity collecting-box in the shape of a plaster-of-Paris boy cripple ; as a result of which the uncle , too embarrassed to admit to this folly and borrow from his relatives , had run out of petrol on the way back to his sheep station . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For example , they looked in detail at each major recession and argued from their observations that the money supply declined for reasons other than the recession itself and that the fall in money national income generally followed the fall in the money supply . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Announcements on college noticeboards often gave details of students who had been involved in ‘ inappropriate conduct ’ and dismissed from their studies . |
| 11 | Liu Binyan had been expelled from the party and dismissed from his post in 1987 , and is living in exile in the US . |
| 12 | Voice of Vietnam radio announced on March 12 that Bui Tin had been expelled from the CPV and dismissed from his post as deputy editor-in-chief of the party daily Nhan Dan . |
| 13 | They were dragged , shrieking and weeping from their homes and hurled like so much old clothing into the middle of the road . |
| 14 | Their crowns bare and dripped from their feet . |
| 15 | Rain ran down the harsh planes of his face and dripped from his chin on to the slick oilskin . |
| 16 | Aunt Tossie had a faint dribble of desire at the corners of her mouth when , at length , she laid down the slate pencil and rose from her chair to face Mrs Geary , her companion in what was to be an immortal triumph : its finale that most acceptable of puddings before diets and regimens were conceived : a really beautiful Trifle . |
| 17 | She felt the burden of their eyes upon her , and rose from her bench silently , waiting . |
| 18 | Then she nodded with decision and rose from her chair . |
| 19 | " If you do n't tell me , I will beat you without mercy , " said the mandarin at last and rose from his chair with the cane in his hand . |
| 20 | ‘ His name is Aldhelm , ’ said Cadfael flatly , and rose from his knees , letting the soiled face sink back gently into the leafmould . |
| 21 | What we really want to do is to get him to respond to some of our press releases and to comment from his perspective of what the press is actually looking for . |
| 22 | For example , it is taking steps to discover what local employers and businesses need and want from their employees . |
| 23 | He was in a gutter , cold clean water running around him , washing the grime and sleep from his face . |
| 24 | And clamber from our cavelight and amnesia ? |
| 25 | While the tattered banners of her triumph swing and drip from her rear-end . |
| 26 | As the train was approaching the director 's station , he rose to his feet and drew from his pocket a visiting card bearing the name Dwerringhouse which he gave to his fellow traveller . |
| 27 | He smiled and drew from his pocket a silver hip-flask . |
| 28 | Rincewind stood up as slowly as he dared , and drew from his belt the short sword he had taken from the guard a few hours and a hundred years ago . |
| 29 | Tears filled her eyes ; they rolled down her cheeks and dropped from her chin . |
| 30 | The ball , however , was too big for it and dropped from its clutch . |