Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then , from what I hear , that 's overrun with bairns ; they 've stopped gathering them in from the streets . |
| 2 | Royal Cedar , trained by John McConnochie , who has taken him over from the now retired Mercy Rimell , is another who is perfectly at home on fast ground , winning here over three and a half miles and at Newbury this season . |
| 3 | Royal Cedar , trained by John McConnochie , who has taken him over from the now retired Mercy Rimell , is another who is perfectly at home on fast ground , winning here over three and a half miles and at Newbury this season . |
| 4 | Elijah has to drag them back from the worship of the heathen fertility gods introduced by Jezebel . |
| 5 | But he could remember the sound of her voice on the phone that morning , when he 'd called her up from the School , too well . |
| 6 | Sometimes , he would add lines like : ‘ You 've got to pick them up from the carpet , or they 'll tread in . |
| 7 | He glanced right and saw another half-dozen Dragoons racing to cut him off from the cart track . |
| 8 | THE Tranmere Rovers players were so high on good publicity before this match that their manager , John King , said he would have to pull them down from the ceiling . |
| 9 | Marlon had been embarrassed by his mum coming to pick him up from the school disco . |
| 10 | If the letter had been burnt in the presence of all the members of the family immediately after being read , then the copy could only have been sent to him before they received it , by the person who went to pick it up from the rubbish skip . |
| 11 | But North had at least a half-promise of another honour : Adolfo Calero revealed that the contras had plans to put up a statue of him in Managua , just as soon as they had won it back from the Sandinistas . |
| 12 | He said that Maccas goal would be credited as an OG , cos he was trying to pull it back from the byline but it hit sherwood and span in . |
| 13 | Their manager , John King , said his players were so high on publicity that before this match he had to pull them down from the ceiling . |
| 14 | ‘ I was just trying to rule you out from the start . |
| 15 | It could have been the assurance of that privacy and , perhaps , the promise of food which had persuaded him in from the cold . |
| 16 | He was trying to win her back from the greedy black hole — to release her from its iron grip and return her to the safety of the study . |
| 17 | He had sneaked himself into the crowd of humans as the huge woman had herded them over from the train . |
| 18 | She had called him up from the bus station as soon as she got into the City . |
| 19 | The voice seemed familiar and he felt he should recognise it , but at first he felt it only as a persuasive force tugging at him , trying to draw him back from the comfort and welcome of the light . |
| 20 | By the teethmarks in Heather 's T-shirt we knew Penny had pulled her back from the stairs — Heather 's body did n't have a mark on it . |
| 21 | I fear not , for indeed ‘ they hearkened not unto Moses ’ , they murmured against him , and against Aaron , which is to say , they murmured against the Lord , for was it not the Lord Himself , speaking and working in Moses , who had brought them out from the land of Egypt ? ’ |
| 22 | And before that he had brought her back from the world , home again into the enclave of the Scarabae . |
| 23 | It was the music that had brought me in from the hall where I had been lying . |
| 24 | It was clear to me that his own personal preoccupations , such as had been conveyed to me by Father D'Arcy and hinted at by others , had cut him off from the workings of certain institutions — his unawareness of Collingwood 's preferment was a case in point — and again he wanted to be informed what the young were thinking . |
| 25 | as if whatever he had done had cut him off from the mercy he had been seeking for so long . |
| 26 | Cloud was advancing steadily again over the moon 's face , and its shadow rolled across the mitred stones of the abbots , and covered the dark inward movement of the men who had followed him up from the water . |
| 27 | Ivan had held him back from the bedroom by force . |
| 28 | He 's built us up from the ruins of 1987 . |
| 29 | The last two singles , ‘ Dragging Me Down ’ and ‘ Two Worlds Collide ’ , and new one ‘ Generations ’ have pulled them back from the margins that the rambling excesses of ‘ The Beast Inside ’ threatened to confine them to . |
| 30 | ‘ And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel , At even , then ye shall know that the Lord hath brought you out from the land of Egypt : And in the morning , then ye shall see the glory of the Lord ; for that he heareth your murmurings against the Lord : and what are we , that ye murmur against us ? |