Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | But with part of her mind — the part that had stood back from their embrace — she was dimly aware that she had almost wanted to believe the worst . |
| 2 | Robyn saw the tightness in his expression , the grim set of his jaw and began to scramble up from her half-lying position on the settee . |
| 3 | A group of shaven-headed yobbos , with tattooed cheeks and nationalistic leanings , observed this from the upper deck and came swarming down from the bus . |
| 4 | The organ could not approach this strangled cry that came welling up from the bowels , from the primitive consciousness of life , of pain , of joy ; the long , tortured note that slowly unwound your intestines to be twanged by the electric guitarist . |
| 5 | For Philip said that board , thick papers , " something , should be put under the tank to raise it , because of some tricky protruding pipes , and Jasper , seeing the stacks of newspaper that had come down from the attic , swiftly gathered them up and built them , while he knelt there beside it , into an eighteen-inch-high platform . |
| 6 | Right off the bat Dan agreed , detailing this as the one criticism that had come back from American TriAxis users . |
| 7 | The tree was gleaming green with new foliage that had broken out from the charred branches of the first encounter between the English and the islanders . |