Example sentences of "risen from [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Avondale Road , the Wilcox boys have risen from their beds at last and are making the most of their unsupervised occupancy of the house . |
| 2 | Some of them looked as if they had only just risen from their beds , as if this was breakfast time to them ; others had the look of people who had n't slept for a week . |
| 3 | This year , the phoenix has risen from its ashes , a phoenix in brighter plumage than he has ever worn before . |
| 4 | Sunday was not much better ; Miss Huntley had not risen from her bed until one p.m. and had not left the flat until five , then only to go to the cinema . |
| 5 | She had risen from her deep curtsey , and stood for a long moment gazing steadily into his face . |
| 6 | Anya has risen from her seat , takes up a position facing Rainbow , at the opposite end of the mantelpiece . |
| 7 | She had risen from her bed , slipped on her dressing-robe , and lighting her bedside candle with the tinderbox on the table , she had taken it in her hand and gone into Lady Merchiston 's chamber . |
| 8 | The expansion of higher education will continue — numbers have already risen from one in eight school-leavers to one in four — and polytechnics will be able to become universities . |
| 9 | General Francis had risen from his chair by the examination couch and was supporting himself with his sticks . |
| 10 | In the absence of truly definitive knowledge about Jesus , it seems to us more likely , more probable , more in accord with our experience of humanity , that a man should have been married and tried to regain his rightful throne than that he should have been born of a virgin , walked on water and risen from his grave . |
| 11 | A different kind of style , and a different kind of rhetoric , is employed in passages where Dickens wants to move us with compassion : notably in Paul 's death scene , where he can afford to use simple syntax and vocabulary ( expressing the simple images of the child 's mind ) in the assurance that understatement will merely intensify the reader 's sympathy : [ 4 ] Paul had never risen from his little bed ( 1 ) . |
| 12 | I used to watch him out of the back attic window in the late afternoon , when he had risen from his rest . |
| 13 | Joseph noticed out of the corner of his eye that Khai Dinh had risen from his seat and was walking slowly in his ponderous Ming boots towards the door . |
| 14 | ‘ Yet I believe that Satan himself , the Prince of Darkness , has risen from his cauldron in Hell and now stalks this sun-dappled place . ’ |
| 15 | Jake had risen from his seat and was standing to face her . |
| 16 | He had risen from his chair , taking the refusal for granted . |