Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv prt] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scales got up from his seat at the table in Wycliffe 's little office but Wycliffe waved him back . |
| 2 | Suddenly Mr Crick got up from his stool . |
| 3 | Foreign imports into Britain continued to grow rapidly in the 1970s and 1980s while UK exports of manufactures levelled off from the late 1970s , making the UK a net importer of manufactured goods for the first time in the long history we have described ( Figure 2.1 ) . |
| 4 | Dot was n't allowed into Mrs Parvis 's kitchen except at the regulation meal-times and she was n't sure about how food was prepared , but she was pretty certain that when Mrs Parvis cooked what was called a nice egg-dish , it was made from an orange coloured powder spooned up from a deep cylindrical tin . |
| 5 | The driver got down from the cab and walked slowly down the platform and disappeared through a solid wooden door . |
| 6 | Dan got up from the breakfast bar . |
| 7 | Dr Mortimer got up from his chair . |
| 8 | The administrator kept careful account of money laid out from the estate . |
| 9 | William got up from his chair at the workbench and went over to open up with a puzzled frown . |
| 10 | The central figure , St Cecilia , seems rapt in such inspiration as produced her image in the painter 's mind ; her deep , dark , eloquent eyes lifted up ; her chestnut hair flung back from her forehead — she holds an organ in her hands — her countenance , as it were , calmed by the depth of its passion and rapture , and penetrated throughout with the warm and radiant light of life . |
| 11 | Philippa got up from the chair she had brought into the kitchen , went to take the cloth from Lee 's lap , decided against it , and started to wipe up the insidious liquid with tissues . |
| 12 | WORLD champions Germany fought back from 3–0 down for a 3–3 US Cup draw with Brazil in Washington . |
| 13 | Barry 's Mum got up from the desk as they went into the waiting-room , and put her coat on . |
| 14 | A myriad becks tumbled down from the hills into the valleys and dales below , cutting a gorge here or following the old meltwater channels there . |
| 15 | Rosheen sprung up from her couch in panic as she remembered what Sheldukher had done to her . |
| 16 | A double stairway led up from a dusty hallway past walls of hieroglyphics and adolescent gods , set between huge mirrors advertising an Italian cognac popular in the 1920s . |
| 17 | Figure 10 Crystal forms built up from spheroidal atoms from A. Ure , Dictionary of Chemistry , third edition , London , 1828 , after W. H. Wollaston whose models are in the Science Museum , London . |
| 18 | LEFT Images of Uranus built up from information sent back in 1986 by Voyager 2 ; the image on the right is in false colour and extreme contrast enhancement to show details of Uranus 's polar regions . |
| 19 | The man looking down at her wore an imposing set of whiskers , a grey beard hung down over his brightly coloured waistcoat and thick , waving grey hair sprouted back from his forehead , giving him the look of an ageing lion . |
| 20 | Pepys moved around from public places to coffee houses and taverns hoping to do business . |
| 21 | Somewhere , over on the other side of the Common , a truck moved up from below the hill and , headlights hooded , started across towards Parkside . |
| 22 | Recently released Home Office papers in fact show that the authorities drew back from prosecuting even the most blatant cases of anti-semitic propaganda both before and during the Second World War despite the fact that it was ostensibly being fought to destroy Hitlerism . |
| 23 | Frere got up from his chair , hating himself , to prowl the room like a caged panther . |
| 24 | Continents began to drift apart as the molten basaltic lava welled up from cracks in the seabed ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 25 | Aldhelm got up from the turf on which a new and unsteady lamb was also trying to get to its feet , nuzzled by the quivering ewe . |
| 26 | Steps led up from the stone paving to a wide veranda , which was adorned with hanging plants and tubs full of flowers . |
| 27 | Carlie got up from the footstool . |
| 28 | The most abundant isotope of oxygen , 18 O , has an atomic mass of 16 units made up from eight protons and eight neutrons . |
| 29 | Hatch straightened up from the plant box , and surveyed his handiwork for a second before looking at Cowley and saying , ‘ Maiden Lane or Memory Lane ? |
| 30 | The profits growth came on the back of a 26 per cent rise in sales to more than £53m , with the total number of units sold up from 676 to 745 in the year . |