Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv] from [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I understand the position , the duty in negligence arose purely from the fact that the wife was also a customer of the bank . |
| 2 | " Dinner is served , Madam , " Twomey announced quietly from the doorway . |
| 3 | Her fragile sanity crept away from the edge to cower inside the fortress of her orders . |
| 4 | By a notice of appeal dated 6 September 1991 the solicitors appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law in holding that ( a ) under section 6(2) of the Act of 1986 the court had jurisdiction to order any person other than the contravener who appeared to the court to have been knowingly concerned in the contravention of section 3 of the Act to repay to investors sums paid by them to Pantell and ( b ) under section 61(1) of the Act the court had jurisdiction to order any person other than the contravener who appeared to the court to have been knowingly concerned in the contravention of any rules , regulations or provisions referred to in that section to repay to investors sums paid by them to Pantell ; ( 2 ) the court had no jurisdiction under sections 6(2) and 61(1) to award claims for compensation for loss against persons knowingly concerned in such contraventions in contrast to sections 6(3) to ( 7 ) and sections 61(3) to ( 7 ) ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law in holding that ( a ) the power of the court under section 6(2) to order a person knowingly concerned in the contravention to take such steps as the court might direct for restoring the parties to the transaction to the position in which they were before the transaction was entered into and ( b ) the power of the court under section 61(1) to order a person knowingly concerned in the contravention of the rules , regulations or provisions referred to in that section to take such steps as the court might direct to remedy it included power to make a financial award against such person directing payment by that person to individual investors of sums equivalent to the amounts paid by such investors pursuant to the said transaction , neither subsection empowering the court to order restitution by the repayment of moneys outside the possession or control of the person concerned ; and ( 4 ) the judge erred in law ( a ) in his construction of sections 6(2) and 61(1) in failing to have regard to the principle ‘ generalibus specialia derogant , ’ in particular in holding that there could exist within each of sections 6 and 61 two parallel powers to order financial redress at the suit of the plaintiff , one derived from sections 6(3) and 6(4) and sections 61(3) and 61(4) respectively , which was subject to the limitations set out in those and subsequent subsections , and the other derived from section 6(2) and section 61(1) , which was subject to no such limitations ; ( b ) in rejecting the submission that sections 6 and 61 were essentially procedural and did not create new substantive legal rights and remedies ; and ( c ) in failing to have regard to the fact that the orders sought under paragraphs 11 and 13 of the prayer to the amended statement of claim required payment to the plaintiff or alternatively into court of moneys recovered thereunder from the solicitors despite the absence of any provisions for such orders in the Act , his dismissal of the summons being inconsistent with his finding that there was no provision in sections 6(2) or 61(1) directing payment into court and that any order under the sections would have to direct repayment of the sum paid to each individual investor who had made the original payment . |
| 5 | WC apps : 1st time Costa Rica qualified early from the Concacaf play-offs , leaving the rest to fight it out among themselves . |
| 6 | At the sound of her mother 's voice , faint but even at this distance still accusing , away down there on the snow-covered lawn , Alexandra drew away from the window into the shadows of the room behind . |
| 7 | Chris Curran headed home from a Gary Himsworth free kick to seal a 2–2 draw for Scarborough . |
| 8 | Silently , Kirov moved away from the table and began to walk slowly down the street . |
| 9 | Moving as quietly as possible on the gravel , Patrick moved away from the kitchen , and then continued on until he came level with the basement windows . |
| 10 | Like a wrung cloth , Jessica peered palely from the casement for the last time , she told herself . |
| 11 | As in France under the Fifth Republic , West Germany moved away from a system of political parties based on class , religious and constitutional differences . |
| 12 | Marcus jerked away from the contact and lashed out , pushing Pete onto his backside . |
| 13 | Rebecca recovered quickly from the shock of finding that she was not alone . |
| 14 | They were already acting to cut costs in June 1990 , moving the company from four locations to one ; last year 's small pre-tax loss arose mainly from the costs of relocating employees who wanted to move house with the unification . |
| 15 | No , not at all , and then , even in her confused state , her mind shied away from the reasons for her distaste , and she found herself saying even through her pain and shock , ‘ I will not think about that , I will not , ’ and so saying she stopped struggling and sank back into oblivion once more . |
| 16 | A bright-red saloon car zoomed past from the south and shot me to my feet with my arms waving wildly . |
| 17 | Presidential elections held on Nov. 11 were contested by 12 candidates ranged politically from the centre to the far right , with no left-wing parties represented . |
| 18 | The melting snow dripped mournfully from the trees and the slope leading down from the moor was a mass of little rivulets , cascading down to run into Hodge Beck . |
| 19 | Kathleen moved slowly from the doorway and shook her head , without speaking . |
| 20 | The driver closed the door behind him and moments later the car drew away from the road-block , heading south . |
| 21 | Rare orchids bloomed unseen and the wind came always from the east . |
| 22 | He had learned to play during the 1940s when record players were still a rarity on the domestic front and so his exposure to jazz came mainly from the radio . |
| 23 | After both his first two visits Frere came unhappily from the bedroom , managing a brave but unconvincing smile and admitting only his boundless gratitude to Louisa for her pains . |
| 24 | Opposition came principally from the communists , the Roman Catholic Church and Christian youth groups . |
| 25 | Opposition came primarily from the UK , but also from Denmark and Ireland ( the only EC countries not to have signed the Schengen Agreement on the abolition of mutual border controls — see p. 38505 ) , Greece having signed it on Nov. 6 . |
| 26 | For some reason ( possibly through oversight ) this provision is not reproduced in the Leasing and Factoring Conventions , which in other respects borrowed heavily from the scope provisions of the Sales Convention . |
| 27 | Kathleen turned away from the window , hastily , for fear her sister should see her watching and began to get out the mixing bowl and pastry board , the flour and the milk . |
| 28 | ( 3 ) Stephen Small raced away from a defender and was brought down from behind inside the area — an indirect free kick for obstruction instead of a penalty . |
| 29 | The thought of it filled her with an immense regret because a child could not stay a child there would be men ( a man she hoped ) in Nicandra 's life , Aunt Tossie thought with pity and some disgust — her mind scampered hurriedly from the contemplation of a subject not forbidden so much as not existing for her . |
| 30 | Ari wriggled away from the chair and backed towards the door . |