Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] from a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean apart from a monstrous attack on our own officers who ca n't answer for themselves in this place . |
| 2 | My wife and I returned recently from a visit to our son in South Australia , and whilst there we paid several visits to the local RAFA branch . |
| 3 | I heard afterwards from a lot of excited chattering in the dining room that George had stood alone outside the rear door of the dome car on the brink of space , directing a bright hand-held torch beam down the track . |
| 4 | Now and again , of course , you have to deal with the awkward moments , like someone reading aloud from a Sunday paper the ‘ sordid story of perverted vice ’ which has obviously been concocted over a few jars by a hack hounded by deadline . |
| 5 | And I went then from a , a timber mill and they there 's various different jobs I 've been in since then , you know ? |
| 6 | I learned recently from an article on Craven Arms station in the Railway Journal that the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway , authorised by Parliament on the 3rd August 1846 , was not the only scheme to link these towns . |
| 7 | Of course , I drank deeply from a mixture of relief at the Queen 's open support as well as the need to forget the horrors of that grisly chamber . |
| 8 | He already knew most of the city 's different districts and its short cuts , its sudden changes of place and people ; it was just that now he would see the shop windows shining at night instead of by day , see them gliding past from a car or taxi window as he was driven home for the night . |
| 9 | Erm I know there had been occasion when we had people sleeping on the the stairway and you know , I think occasionally and but I think sometimes that was maybe somebody got home from a blues party , and had too much to drink or something , and they came into the warm , the heat w from the the downstairs flat , er k comes up on the stairwell , and I know there was someone sleeping there . |
| 10 | The only minor disappointment is the rather short chapter on the personal social services which suffers somewhat from a rather overambitious attempt to cover too much ground ( i.e. the role of the statutory sector as well as the contribution of both the informal and voluntary sectors ) . |
| 11 | Father Peter took three earthenware bowls from a small cupboard near the inglenook and served them generous portions of soup from a black bowl which hung perilously from an iron hook above the flames . |
| 12 | ( One might argue against the concept of ‘ right-minded persons ’ , which moves away from a statistical concept such as ‘ most people ’ or ‘ the ordinary citizen ’ and seems to seek a moral plane which is ‘ right-minded ’ , a question-begging approach in this context . ) |
| 13 | She woke slowly from a vague dream as an errant breeze drifted over her face , coming to rest on her mouth . |
| 14 | Cortot , who suffered painfully from a sense of his own imperfections , would have been gratified to know that future as well as contemporary admirers joined him in realizing that there are , perhaps , higher things in art than mere discretion . |
| 15 | Belgian pig breeders , who suffered severely from an epidemic of swine fever last year , are concerned that the illness might spread . |
| 16 | I 'd now like you to hear directly from a young person for whom access to one of our projects in the United Kingdom has made major changes in her life . |
| 17 | Christina wanted to remind him that he had only helped with the backing and that the real work had been done by Stephen and her , but she kept quiet and instead watched Jean Reece-Carlton as she turned away from a gloating Robert in disgust , muttering something under her breath . |
| 18 | An RFL who practises mainly from an office or offices in England and Wales can apply for this status without further change . |
| 19 | The visitor to the Museo Guarnacci of Volterra is not likely to forget the series of urns with strange scenes of marauding Celts who run away from a Fury . |
| 20 | She arrived home from a foreign holiday yesterday considerably richer than when she left . |
| 21 | And nor , she might have added , did she run away from a fight . |
| 22 | A woman has been attacked and raped by two men as she walked home from a pub . |
| 23 | A SEX attacker who pounced on a woman early on Sunday in Troon as she walked home from a night out is still being hunted by police . |
| 24 | Much the same would have been thought of Jessica as she would have been seen as someone who walked away from an evil religion and stepped into the right path . |
| 25 | A PENSIONER was raped early yesterday as she returned home from a church service . |
| 26 | The bodies were discovered by Mrs Anderson 's only child , eight-year-old Kelly , when she returned home from a school function . |
| 27 | THREE lifeboats , three tugs and an RAF Sea King helicopter were yesterday searching for an 18-year-old lifeboatman who fell overboard from a fishing boat . |
| 28 | I think erm there is a erm a size issue that enters into that particular consideration , erm clearly erm if you build a small new settlement very close to an existing large settlement , then the prospects for that being reasonably self contained are much reduced to that of a larger new settlement in the same location , and I would agree that the further in in general the further you move away from an existing centre then the likelihood is that that settlement will become more self contained . |
| 29 | Her old white dress and purple shawl She bought once from an ancient stall . |
| 30 | The offence in s.3 will not be committed by an accused who walks away from a betting shop or brothel . |