Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv prt] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One difference between the pub and the rest of the street was that the brickwork had been painted cream which made it stand out from the long façade of varying shades of red or grey . |
| 2 | The dusky pink body is heavily patterned with golden-yellow spotted scales , this spotting diminishes in prominence as it progresses down from the dorsal area to the belly of the fish . |
| 3 | Julie holds the doll up high ‘ to get all the water from inside her ’ and is fascinated to watch it stream out from a little hole in the doll 's big toe . |
| 4 | It follows on from a fine display of tinted autumn foliage . |
| 5 | Anyway , it has a spacious and homely feeling about it left over from the bad days of British Imperialism , and this is epitomised in my bathroom , which has an enormous ( though now cracked ) Shanks sink , made in Scotland ! |
| 6 | Two hundred miles from land the fierce Amazon river stained the dark water darker , red with the silt it carries down from the secret jungles and mountains of the New World . |