Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the Council had moved on from chapter II , Cardinal Ottaviani , without protest from any of those presiding , returned to it in defiance of the rules . |
| 2 | The boy had crawled out from beneath the blanket and knelt there , looking across at Tuan Ti Fo , his eyes wide with fear . |
| 3 | They drank whisky and cider , watched pornogrhapic videos that the teacher had brought back from a holiday in Germany . |
| 4 | The roofs were most often not their own : long since , the community had drawn in from its perimeter , sharing its water , its food and its warmth , and distancing itself so far as might be from the walls and the thud of the cannon . |
| 5 | The annual revenue generated by this apparatus over the years preceding the war had built up from $482 million in 1964 to $1,109 million in 1970 . |
| 6 | The one on the right had flown in from Finland . |
| 7 | As he entered the paved courtyard the rain came whipping in from the sea , lashing against the car and obliterating everything . |
| 8 | I immediately asked Dennis if he was OK , and pointed out that I thought that the ball had jumped up from a good length . |
| 9 | In the heat of a sultry evening , Britain had the fitness and the heart to outlast the clever Koreans and it was Sixsmith who got the winner , poaching in the area after the ball had pinballed around from a short corner . |
| 10 | During the trial , the jury heard how the assault had led on from an earlier flight between the two men over a woman . |
| 11 | Still , in the next few days as the news began to filter in from Niki 's hospital that Niki had been given the last rites , that he had inhaled burning fuel and damaged his lungs , that his face had been appallingly burned , the facts did begin to sink in . |
| 12 | The hood had slipped back from his head when he fell , by the way it lay bunched in his neck . |
| 13 | The train had come in from the sidings and stood in the station , warm and pulsing , its engines reattached , the horses and grooms on board and fresh foods and ice loaded . |
| 14 | Duncan lay still , confused and wondering why the Army had moved in from the south . |
| 15 | Cllr Murphy said he had been bitterly disappointed that the report had stepped back from investigating allegations on manipulation of personnel recruitment because it is under investigation by an independent management consultancy . |
| 16 | But one of them is a copy-editor , I think that is what he is called , and he told me that he thought the item had come in from a friend of Leila 's . ’ |
| 17 | The filing cabinet was dented and torn , shoved to one side at the foot of the stairs , and the thing had crawled out from beneath it , trying to crawl up the stairs after them . |
| 18 | The Sergeant came rushing in from next door . |
| 19 | Come to think of it , if the bus had started out from NZ at the start of last season , it could just about have delivered everyone to Southampton in time for the famous Away Win . |
| 20 | Against the black walls there were of course changes in fashion , changes of music , changes in drink ; for instance for a couple of years you could get little liqueur glasses of violently alcoholic black coffee with pyramids of whipped cream on top after one of the barstaff had come back from an affair with a real sailor ( or so he said anyway ) in some German port , Germany somewhere . |
| 21 | The heavy sound of the door-knocker came beating up from the bottom of the house . |
| 22 | The class began to copy down from the blackboard . |