Example sentences of "a [noun] [noun] from [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark Twain was so impressed he included a description in his work The Innocents Abroad : ‘ I watched the Silver Swan which had a living grace about his movements and a living intelligence in his eyes — watched him swimming about as comfortably and unconcernedly as if he had been born in a morass instead of a jewellers ' shop — watched him seize a silver fish from under the water and hold up his head and go through all the customary and elaborate motions of swallowing it ’ . |
| 2 | Back in Armstrong , I dug out a road atlas from under the driver 's seat and turned to the page covering south-east London and north Kent . |
| 3 | Appoint a systems manager from among the secretaries as a central point of contact between the firm and the supplier . |
| 4 | Some schools go as far as appointing a press officer from amongst the staff or the governors . |
| 5 | Plumbing it in on most sprayers involves running a supply pipe from between the pressure relief valve and tank return line . |