Example sentences of "from [pos pn] [noun sg] [coord] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neurosurgeons have successfully moved a blood clot from her brain and are keeping a close watch on her . |
| 2 | It was a crisp Saturday morning in February , and the young man had picked her up from her flat and was driving them to a motor-racing track in the heart of Surrey . |
| 3 | Pushing his arms into the waistcoat , which he then buttoned up the wrong way in his confusion , he pointed to the girl who had lifted the veil of wet hair from her face and was peeking out of one eye . |
| 4 | She had successfully banished the photograph from her mind and was gazing outside , down at the sunlit seashore , her eyes searching for Emily , when Mrs Birkin appeared . |
| 5 | After the incident of the doll , at irregular intervals other objects precious to her had disappeared from her room or been broken in her absence . |
| 6 | Each bump is as little as six angstroms or , six 10-billionths of a metre from its neighbour and was snapped by passing an electric current through the silicon , across a vacuum and up into the tip of an electrode moving across the surface . |
| 7 | The knife glinted briefly from its sheath and was concealed again . |
| 8 | These too need to be distributed , for it is better that the next generation should grow away from the parent plant , where they will not suffer from its shade or be deprived of sustenance by its roots . |
| 9 | What changed all that was a book Suffer Little Children by a St Andrews doctor , David Reid , who runs his own Medical Institute for Research into Child Cruelty from his home and is known for controversial views on the causes of child abuse . |
| 10 | At the question , her head jerked up and she saw that Vitor had awakened from his nap and was frowning at her . |
| 11 | After all , he could have been thrown from his horse and been lying injured on the moors in the middle of a fierce storm . |
| 12 | Persuaded by advisers to leave the battlefield , he fell from his horse and was carried , injured , into a nearby mill . |
| 13 | Balor had unbuttoned his jerkin and brushed the crumbs from his front and was preparing to take a snooze . |
| 14 | The concern faded from his face and was replaced by something else . |
| 15 | Joseph noticed out of the corner of his eye that Khai Dinh had risen from his seat and was walking slowly in his ponderous Ming boots towards the door . |
| 16 | Jake had risen from his seat and was standing to face her . |