Example sentences of "from a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Automatism : Any involuntary movement of body or limb , e.g. epileptic fit , or under attack from a swarm of bees . |
| 2 | Supplies of Teflon bags , Teflon tape , stainless-steel shears and tongs , and aluminium numbering tags must be unloaded from a snowmobile at each meteorite find . |
| 3 | They saw what they took to be a wild-eyed drunk , well dressed and bleeding from a blow on the mouth . |
| 4 | The day when the search guards were given orders to act roughly , and the little R.A.S.C. captain who came running out of the block with his mouth still bleeding from a blow with a rifle butt . |
| 5 | Faldo 's ace was the fourth of his career , and each resulted from a blow with his 6-iron . |
| 6 | But even when he was surrounded he continued to lay about him with his sword , and then with an axe when his sword broke , until he went down from a blow to the head . |
| 7 | A former world karate champion , Hashim Baddridine , also Sudanese , was charged with the attack , which had reportedly left Turabi badly injured from a blow to the side of his head . |
| 8 | She 'd died from a blow to her neck . |
| 9 | shots which show the Speaker receiving advice from a Clerk at the Table should not be used and Officers and staff should not normally be shown , except when taking an active part in the proceedings ; |
| 10 | John D. Rockefeller rose from a clerk in a commission merchant 's house to become one of the world 's richest men . |
| 11 | Jacques Attali , the bank 's president , will tell shareholders how it has spent 621 million Ecus on 20 projects in its first year ranging from a stake in a Czechoslovak chocolate maker to Polish telephones . |
| 12 | Anyway , there 's been a report from a chambermaid at the hotel ; she says she saw Alfred just before eight this morning , on his way up the street . |
| 13 | The affair was based on evidence from a deserter from the DSC , who claimed that the DSC had conducted unauthorized surveillance against some 1,300 civilians , including politicians , journalists and religious figures . |
| 14 | William Temple ran a mission on the Blackpool sands , preaching from a tub to the buckets and spades . |
| 15 | Sudden shifts from a major to a minor key or vice versa , on the other hand , are readily apparent to the ear . |
| 16 | Lion-hearted Nigel does n't worry about the high-speed horrors of blasting around a concrete oval , six inches from a wall at up to 240 mph with 30 other drivers all battling for the same space — and no runoffs if you crash . |
| 17 | It was discarded when shelving had to be cleared away from a wall on which a mural had been discovered after being painted over in the Stalinist era when the artist who created it had fallen out of favour . |
| 18 | To a fevered imagination , it seems no one can turn a corner in the crowded conference complex without running into a mug shot of one or other high-theoretician leering pensively from a wall of hardback dust covers . |
| 19 | It was argued that this was obvious because every competent housewife knows that dust can be removed from a floor by the passage of a vacuum cleaner . |
| 20 | If Snotlings find themselves themselves further than 12″ away from a unit of Orcs or Goblins , and if they can not move to within 12″ of a unit during that movement phase , then they mill around in a confused mass . |
| 21 | After a while you need a break from a unit like this . |
| 22 | The hostile reception he received in the Caribbean in 1986 marked another low point , so that in the best tradition of film scripts , from a sea of adversity arose a hardened hero , utterly uncompromising , a succession of glittering prizes — personal and national — to be seized by him one after the other . |
| 23 | The superb shots were chosen from a sea of entries which flooded into our offices after the Tall Ships ' visit this summer . |
| 24 | Clearly , from a look at She , most of them have done no such thing . |
| 25 | Apart from a look of mild surprise , the Rector seemed unaware of the toy being pulled roughly from under him . |
| 26 | He would not have liked to guess her age , had never seen her in anything other than half-light , and knew nothing about her beyond the fact that she came from a village to the north which she had told him , stood in the shadow of the pyramid of Saqqara . |
| 27 | A police report from a village in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen area stated : ‘ While the failure of the assassination attempt has unleashed enthusiasm among Party comrades and those sections of the population who sympathize with the Party and the National Socialist State , the other section of the population refrains from any comment or opinion . |
| 28 | They employed two girls , sisters , aged 17 and 13 years , from a village in Oxfordshire , as housemaid and nurserymaid . |
| 29 | A study from a village in Bangladesh shows that 16 per cent of its families owned 55 per cent of the cropped land , and 46 per cent of the cattle . |
| 30 | Hardwari Devi , 38 , who came to Delhi years ago from a village in Uttar Pradesh , says : |