Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv] from [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Dinner is served , Madam , " Twomey announced quietly from the doorway . |
| 2 | WC apps : 1st time Costa Rica qualified early from the Concacaf play-offs , leaving the rest to fight it out among themselves . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Chris Curran headed home from a Gary Himsworth free kick to seal a 2–2 draw for Scarborough . |
| 5 | Silently , Kirov moved away from the table and began to walk slowly down the street . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Like a wrung cloth , Jessica peered palely from the casement for the last time , she told herself . |
| 8 | As in France under the Fifth Republic , West Germany moved away from a system of political parties based on class , religious and constitutional differences . |
| 9 | Marcus jerked away from the contact and lashed out , pushing Pete onto his backside . |
| 10 | Rebecca recovered quickly from the shock of finding that she was not alone . |
| 11 | Kathleen moved slowly from the doorway and shook her head , without speaking . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ( 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 . |
| 15 | Ari wriggled away from the chair and backed towards the door . |
| 16 | Barnett swung away from the bar , his hand finding the slippery handle of the knife . |
| 17 | A great cheer when up as Ann broke away from the crowd and went after Harry , but she hardly heard it . |
| 18 | With a polite excuse , Toby padded noiselessly from the room and lifted the receiver ; as the conversation progressed , Montgomery became aware that he was speaking to Meryl Armitage . |
| 19 | Chief executive Mike Brogden said the decision to close Hillhouse resulted primarily from the increase in UK electricity prices which eroded ICI 's international competitive position in that sector of the industry . |
| 20 | The main differences between the 1978 and the 1983 lists were definitional ( the splitting up of the middle-income group ) and political ( South Africa expelled from the industrial group and relegated to the upper-middle-income group and replaced , incidentally , by Spain ; Taiwan expelled altogether from the list and the People 's Republic of China integrated into the low-income group at number 21 ) . |
| 21 | Ari sat across from the man she 'd been told was her father , appraising him with a critical eye . |
| 22 | Corbett sipped again from the wine cup . |
| 23 | THE report , Stevie explained as Patrick drove away from the station , had come through the British Embassy in Bucharest . |
| 24 | Sarah twisted away from the physician 's grasp and darted back inside the foundry to where Bill Yardley still sat on the trough . |
| 25 | In fact only two liaison groups in England met regularly from the beginning of 1985 ; from September 1985 meetings were arranged twice a term for these two groups . |
| 26 | Quinn then seemed to have won it for City with a 51st-minute header but Steve Whitton levelled again from the penalty spot . |
| 27 | James Naughtie promised more from the Hotel later that evening . |
| 28 | Alone , in the eternal light of his timeless Prison , Fergus winced away from the memories , and then , with sudden resolve , turned about and faced them . |
| 29 | Some of this Katherine gleaned dimly from the set of house rules she read through three times in a room distinguished only by orderly barrenness . |
| 30 | It is a geological fault , the result of a convulsion of nature in ages past when the north and north-west of Scotland moved away from the rest of the country , leaving a clear divide , straight as an arrow and sliced as though by a giant cleaver , across the breadth of Scotland from the Atlantic to the North Sea . |