Example sentences of "from [pos pn] [noun] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pushed in a couple of pessaries , untied the sack from my middle and pulled my shirt over my head . |
| 2 | Guiding our distinguished visitor to the hotel lift I quickly scribbled the word MELACHUSETUCK on a blank page from my note-book and handed it to Mr Murray . |
| 3 | A royal smashed past a few feet to my left , then another took a dive down by sheltering bank , his hooves carving into the ground just a yard from my toes and spraying my legs with black peat . |
| 4 | ‘ And d' you feel you could sweep them from my ground and deliver me from my past — or reconstruct my life without the shards of my past — or what ? ’ |
| 5 | I take the handcuffs from my pocket and snap them over her wrists . |
| 6 | I pulled the little guy from my pocket and set him down on my desk . |
| 7 | I slipped the fifth from my pocket and stood it in front of him . |
| 8 | Quickly , I took a pistol from my pocket and aimed it at him — but the powder was wet and the pistol did n't fire ! |
| 9 | But I dismissed these thoughts from my mind and entered our house . |
| 10 | Recently my husband , despairing of me ever emerging from my room and cooking his dinner , offered to make some baked beans on toast . |
| 11 | ‘ Take one of the strips of plaster from my arm and put it over the girl here 's mouth . |
| 12 | If our missionary methods extract converts from their society and leave them as social isolates or misfits , there is something wrong with our missioning ’ ( Tippett 1970:34 ) . |
| 13 | Some of the first of these were made by a pupil of McConnell 's , Allan Jacobson , in Los Angeles , who announced in 1965 that if he trained rats to approach the food dispenser of their cage when a light flashed or a clicking sound was made , then killed the animals , extracted the RNA from their brains and injected it into the gut cavity of untrained animals , these now tended to approach the dispenser when the appropriate stimulus — click or light — was given , even though the dispenser was now empty of food and the animals received no reward . |
| 14 | Nichetti once again casts himself as the noble little guy in a bewildering universe — more Buster Keaton than Woody Allen — this time dubbing sound effects on to animated features which gradually stray from their screens and absorb his entire body . |
| 15 | Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl . |
| 16 | This has grave consequences for their children who ‘ do not learn as much from their mothers as do their middle-class counterparts ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 17 | The mallards shook the water from their feathers and flapped their wings angrily . |
| 18 | The cowering patrons were pulling silver crucifixes from their pockets and holding them between trembling fingers . |
| 19 | If men from different lineages in the same section were in dispute , their lineage shaikhs would meet as representatives of the two groups and try to bring the affair to a conclusion ; they could , if necessary , collect compensation from their members and receive it on their behalf . |
| 20 | He showed us his collection of guns , taking them down from their racks and handing them out to us as if we were about to set off on some dangerous mission . |
| 21 | Tithonus directly begs the Gods to release him from their grip and let him die . |
| 22 | She hurried them away from their anchorage and stripped them down her thin legs . |
| 23 | As fast as the Poles installed them , the local Nazis tore them from their mountings and heaved them into the Radaune canal . |
| 24 | While waiting to go on , they would see the women rub lipstick onto their fingers from their lips and transfer it onto their navels and nipples . |
| 25 | He hath put down the mighty from their seats and exalted them of low degree . |
| 26 | The ants will bring dead ants and other unwanted rubbish from their nests and throw them into the feeding compartment . |
| 27 | On the whole socialist feminists were suspicious of allowances on the grounds that they would undermine male wage-bargaining and preferred to argue , like Ada Nield Chew , for services in kind to support mothers in the ‘ drudgery ’ of child care ; Fabian women preferred direct payment to mothers in order to maintain their economic independence from their husbands and free them from the need to take on paid work which would distract them from their primary task of mothering ( Alexander , 1979 ) . |
| 28 | First announced pact is with Sun Microsystems Inc for Sparcsystems under Solaris , the pitch being that IBM Corp CICS users can move applications from their mainframes and run them on Sun distributed client-server systems with little or no modification . |
| 29 | First announced pact is with Sun Microsystems Inc for Sparcsystems under Solaris , the pitch being that IBM Corp CICS users can move applications from their mainframes and run them on Sun distributed client-server systems with little or no modification . |
| 30 | Often , I 'll pick up an artist from their accommodation and take them to Middlesbrough where they are interviewed by Radio Cleveland . |