Example sentences of "and from the [noun pl] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | about a week ago and from the looks of things I 've passed it quite successfully . |
| 2 | The wealthier classes might have stone-built barns , which could protect their supplies , but houses built of timber and mud , and with earth floors , would be very damp , so it would be hard to protect grains both from rotting and from the depredations of rats and mice . |
| 3 | When she placed Morndun across her face and peered through its ghostly eyes she saw the air shimmering with elementals , sharp-faced , wraith-like , coiling and twisting above the river , streaming out of the mouths and eyes of the men by the water and from the piles of skulls by the trees . |
| 4 | The coming of the rains brought no physical relief to the besieged but in one respect it made things worse ; the smell from the decaying offal and from the corpses of men and animals became intolerable and hung constantly , undisturbed by wind , as a foul miasma over the fortifications . |
| 5 | The earthquake , paradoxically , helped preserve the ancient city both from the ravages of time and from the hands of looters . |