Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was scorched by his touch , branded by his lips , and the fight suddenly drained away from her , leaving her weak and trembling in his arms . |
| 2 | The car eventually pulled away from the kerb and drove after the F40 . |
| 3 | An out-of-condition horse ie a horse just brought up from grass and worked too hard , too soon ; |
| 4 | The Education Department also moved quickly from November 1983 , having had a particularly bumpy ride at the hands of the media . |
| 5 | In a spell of Kilkeel pressure Beckett also saved well from Knox . |
| 6 | Social order on the street had the characteristics of a truce , a lull in which warring parties tacitly held back from strife . |
| 7 | Britain 's unheralded side twice fought back from behind to snatch a deserved point against Poland in the first match of the Olympic qualifying tournament in Sheffield last night . |
| 8 | As I pointed out in the last chapter , working-class attachment to institutional religion never picked up from the moment that peasants moved off the land and became urbanised . |
| 9 | To want to be a millionaire was coarse , even ridiculous ; money somehow floated down from Daddy or was waiting in a will at the end of an estate — that , though rarely the reality , was a prevailing view , and rather attractive in its unworldly dimension . |
| 10 | Scotland eventually benefited greatly from Union with England in 1707 , but in the heyday of nineteenth-century expansion large parts of the western and northern periphery of Britain remained bitterly poor : the clearance of people to make way for sheep caused large-scale migration from the highlands and islands of Scotland , and a large part of the population of Ireland was forced to emigrate through the scarcity of food . |
| 11 | By the time Wordsworth finally set out from Bristol to Racedown in the autumn of 1795 , he had , in the words of The Prelude , ‘ Yielded up moral questions in despair ’ . |
| 12 | Moreover , in its initial area , unlike in London , there were few original residents to displace and environmental improvements succeeded in granting access to large stretches of the waterfront formerly sealed off from the public . |
| 13 | Nicholson simply turned away from the great open doors that lay before him . |
| 14 | Such famous errors surely resulted not from incompetence , but from Cortot 's nervous , high-pitched intensity ; a sheer involvement that could easily cloud his composure or unsettle his equilibrium . |
| 15 | Elisabeth too looked up from her thoughts . |
| 16 | At Grassington the miners worked in small setts , or meers , and there were regular disputes over boundaries and underground trespass despite the presence of a Barmoot Court and Barmaster , and other customs anciently brought in from the lead districts of Derbyshire . |
| 17 | Hereford probably expected more from their visit to Torquay … but one point from a nil-nil draw was enough . |
| 18 | Miranda instinctively pulled away from him . |
| 19 | For a moment , when Miles had looked so meltingly at her as those words poured from him , it seemed as though he were speaking to her , and the dark , wet night simply faded away from around her , and she was transported to a warm summer garden on the night of a Royal Ball . |
| 20 | Lexical and grammatical forms often entered in from Creole sources , although which forms , where they appeared , and how frequently , varied greatly from speaker to speaker . |
| 21 | However , crime has been displaced recently at the centre of race politics by another issue which points equally effectively to the incompatibility of different cultures supposedly sealed off from one another forever along ethnic lines . |
| 22 | They were easily built and repaired using tools and skills often passed down from father to son . |
| 23 | By now Dr Neil was in an agony of desire , the loved one in his arms , so near and yet so far — But not so far as he thought , for McAllister suddenly wanted more from him than he was giving . |
| 24 | Once this conviction had been acquired , however , it became almost impossible to dislodge it , and they came to see themselves as an elite , chosen people permanently set apart from the majority of their unregenerate contemporaries . |
| 25 | He said nothing of miraculous creation and instead proposed that the ‘ new ’ populations simply migrated in from areas not affected by the catastrophe . |
| 26 | The policeman and woman sedately progressed away from them . |
| 27 | Maria McKee recently moved there from Los Angeles , attracted initially by ‘ romantic notions of the community and countryside ’ . |
| 28 | Such was the slowness and enclosedness of all her movements that the girls instinctively looked up from their school books to follow her closely . |
| 29 | North Shields magistrates clipped 90 minutes off the hours after hearing complaints that Tynemouth already suffered enough from drunkenness . |
| 30 | Their inmates were , therefore , throughout their school life totally cut off from normality and ordinary life , which was one of the worst drawbacks of the asylum system . |