Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | His lips seemed to draw out from her all that was sweet , all that was female , and she gave herself up to the moment with an abandon that shocked her . |
| 2 | Gently they lifted the bedraggled form as Bert came lumbering down from the 3 and 4 landing , with Gilbert Forbes behind him , and behind him the trembling form of Jessie , wringing her hands . |
| 3 | The words came mumbling up from beneath the bent head . |
| 4 | Red flares began coming up from the airfield , but the first bombers were committed : they had nowhere to go but down . |
| 5 | But the attempt to remove the deer failed in both forests , because fresh stock kept coming in from adjoining woods . |
| 6 | Meanwhile Linton had got up from his armchair and gone out to join Cathy and Hareton . |
| 7 | US officials reportedly expressed concerns that the Soviet side had drawn back from previously agreed elements of the START treaty , and that at the same time it appeared to be adopting a less conciliatory stance on other arms control and disarmament issues , such as the ceiling on troops in Central Europe and the outline of an " Open Skies " treaty agreed in February [ ibid . ] . |
| 8 | Tammuz had turned around from his workstation . |
| 9 | There was only one really bitter outbreak of in-fighting , prompted by a story which Peter Walker had raked up from somewhere that gave an account of Margaret hoarding food during the miners ' strike . |
| 10 | The Gold Coast had fallen back from the situation 50 years earlier when English-educated Africans had played a leading part in administration , Christian leadership , the judiciary and the learned professions . |
| 11 | Major debt defaults in Mexico and Brazil had prompted a worldwide retreat from international bank lending and the virtual collapse of the syndicated loan market ; since then , unofficial observers estimated that some $45,000 million of net development capital aid had flowed back from the borrowing countries and towards the lenders . |
| 12 | A few parties had walked along from Sandwich Bay Estate to picnic on the beach . |
| 13 | The Scots had come over from Ireland and colonised most of Galloway , Kintyre and Arran . |
| 14 | The aircraft had taken off from Prestwick half-an- hour earlier . |
| 15 | Unlike Eb , Josh had come back from the war in one piece , hale and hearty . |
| 16 | ‘ Love is a local Anguish , ’ he wrote after he and Hucks had travelled on from Wrexham . |
| 17 | Deputation after deputation came pouring in from constituencies whose candidatures had been assigned to Lloyd George Liberals . |
| 18 | As the 22 men in the three boats had just taken their respective stations , a young girl came running down from the village to the shore in breathless haste . |
| 19 | ‘ I had no idea what the response would be , but all of a sudden all this equipment started coming in from all over the world . |
| 20 | With about half a mile to go Elliott decided that it was time to make a move , and in a matter of a few strides Phar Lap had stormed up from last to first . |
| 21 | After Wandsworth Nicholson had moved around from prison to prison , serving his time as surely as any of the inmates in those institutions . |
| 22 | That was what his sharp intelligence had picked up from their first meeting . |
| 23 | When the local doctor , confounded by the sparrow size of his patients , informed the couple that they were to become parents , llya Holovich had dropped her lined and weary face to her chest and wept , and Stepan Holovich had jumped up from his chair and then scratched between his thin grey hair and laughed . |
| 24 | The boy had crawled out from beneath the blanket and knelt there , looking across at Tuan Ti Fo , his eyes wide with fear . |
| 25 | Music was now for the young , not the middle aged : folk had taken over from jazz as the language of the radical and the sentimental . |
| 26 | Everyone knew the story of how old man Reynolds had come up from nothing to be a landowner . |
| 27 | Ray had come in from the country bank and we sat with Margaret through the short service . |
| 28 | After the Council had moved on from chapter II , Cardinal Ottaviani , without protest from any of those presiding , returned to it in defiance of the rules . |
| 29 | Two five-dollar bills had fallen out from behind the encyclopedia just when she was needing money so badly . |
| 30 | Incidentally , they were things that Mikhoels had brought back from Chagall as a gift for the Tretyakov Gallery . |