Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] from [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knocked loudly on the kitchen door and waited for a moment , aware of the total silence from within the room . |
| 2 | God — sniff — he dashed down and burnt his fingers yanking the smoking toast from under the grill . |
| 3 | She had tried to put matters right in the proper manner from within the system , but that had n't worked , and she believed the Children 's Hearing system was at risk in Orkney . |
| 4 | He pulled up the wooden chair from beside the bed and sat down . |
| 5 | European volunteer workers were recruited by the British government from amongst the large refugee population in Displaced Persons camps in Germany and Austria at the end of the Second World war . |
| 6 | Picturesque asymmetry appealed to him because it enabled him to allow the logical sequence of the rooms and considerations of service and privacy to determine the entire plan from of the house without any unnecessary duplication of accommodation . |
| 7 | The covector component is simply the perpendicular projection from onto the 1-direction : . |
| 8 | They were organized into fourteen sections , each under the command of a captain and a sergeant-major , both of whom were chosen by the municipal council from amongst the most important landowners in the region . |
| 9 | He has told us that the minister relied on the legal advice from within the Department when he issued his directive to the area health authority and put in the commissioners . |
| 10 | The present improvement has for its object to compensate for the disturbance of the balance between the upgoing and downgoing lifts which occurs by the immersion of the latter in the water at the foot of the incline , and the improvement consists in gradually diminishing the gradient at the upper end of the incline so as to avoid the great increase of haulage power which would otherwise be required to raise the ascending lift from about the moment when the descending dock begins to enter the water . |
| 11 | To pick out the important point from amongst the details is a most valuable skill . |
| 12 | And no I did n't er stay around to find out who was calling him , suffice to say that it was er somebody from the Italian pizzeria from down the road . |
| 13 | Waste bins overflowed with paper , in the wire room the overnight news from around the world spewed out , in the typewriters sheaves of messages or half-written copy had been stuffed . |
| 14 | Hamilton had been appointed Acting Headmaster of the Grammar School on Gurney 's departure , and had overseen the move from Dodge Hill to Greek Street of pupils , desks , and fitments , and was the successful candidate from amongst the thirteen ( including one layman ) who applied . |
| 15 | It was not exactly a novel sentiment , but from now on the dominant message from within the Tory ranks would be that the welfare state had weakened family ties , the increase of working mothers had produced ‘ a growing decline in parental responsibility ’ , and ‘ affluence ’ had undermined the nation 's moral fibre . |
| 16 | Campion had unhooked the mike for the multi-channel radio from under the dash , but he was n't speaking ; base desk was giving out a priority call and he 'd stopped with the mike on his knee and the coiled flex hanging loosely . |
| 17 | Wind noise , mainly , the gentle breeze from off the lough hissing in the trees , the occasional moan of distant engines . |
| 18 | Two days ago when they had carted out Menzies the minister and Fleming the young teacher from along the road at Dull and danced round them like children at a Halloween fire and stuck them up on horses , facing backwards , and paraded them past the door and down the road to Aberfeldy , he had flung a soft carrot himself and caught the man on the side of his face . |
| 19 | I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain . |
| 20 | It was the duty of the medicine man of the line of Armijas to tutor the spirit warrior through the Seven Levels , to prepare her for the final battle , in which she would stand with the other spirit warriors — the Holy Woman From Across the Great Water , the Man With Music in His Heart , the Red-Handed One , the Yellowlegs Who Has Lost Much , the Great Father in White , the Man Who Rides Alone — against the army of the manitous and the story would end . |
| 21 | Should not John Major have taken the opportunity to cut away more of the dead wood from among the cabinet 's other 20 members ? |
| 22 | There was a pungent smell from along the hall and some dogs barking out the back . |
| 23 | He pulled a low seat from under the bed and gently eased her down to it . |
| 24 | A loud hail from across the compound broke into her thoughts . |
| 25 | Just as he spoke there came a strange cry from across the moor . |
| 26 | A development which seems likely to bear fruit was the creation of a working party from within the panel . |
| 27 | He turned to the mantelpiece , took a brown envelope from behind the clock , and shook something out , on to the table . |
| 28 | He pulled a high stool from beneath the breakfast bar , the denim jeans he was wearing tightening over his muscular thighs as he sat down . |
| 29 | But this was no more than the beginning ; for by now they knew very well that there were French knights fighting with the Scottish companies , and in fair numbers , too , and the south of England had been warned to look to its defences in case of a direct assault from across the channel . |
| 30 | I I simply , I simply want er er a direct message from from the programme which is going on Chairman incidentally I I note that Nottinghamshire County Council erm has found a a and the Labour group there has found it necessary to tackle just the same problems erm in elderly persons homes and that I understand that they have a a closure list of seven , now presumably that has been drawn up from a long list of a lot more than seven , say fourteen or fifteen from which they 've made their final choice . |