Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I can remember my father coming back from the death bed and saying the old man was babbling about a grandson . |
| 2 | My mother looked up from the sewing machine . |
| 3 | My mother dashed in from the kitchen , ‘ Norman , there 's no excuse for that . ’ |
| 4 | With my impressions stored up from the initial set of interviews , I came to see an intriguing challenge . |
| 5 | Her sister jumped back from the letter-cage . |
| 6 | A door opened and a light so bright and sudden it hurt their eyes spilled through from the back . |
| 7 | All their trumpets tilted up from the ground , as if together they were sounding a blast to the sky . |
| 8 | In a crumbling mansion on the edge of a lake from which a mist constantly rises , Roderick Usher and his sister live out their lives cut off from the rest of the world . |
| 9 | ‘ What does this mean for those millions in Britain who live their lives shut out from the Conservative view of how society should be ? |
| 10 | Her gaze travelled round from the rusty old fort , over the salt marsh , past the blocks , sandbags and barbed wire on the beach and lingered on the mud on the near vertical sides of the channel next to her . |
| 11 | Having just wed , and her husband laid off from the cotton mill only four days since , her wages were now the only ones coming in , and she lived in fear of being put out of work . |
| 12 | Her husband stepped out from the crowd and stopped her . |
| 13 | Its basis followed on from the Plowden Committee 's recommendation ( Cmnd. 1432 , 1961 ) that : ‘ Regular surveys should be made of public expenditure as a whole , over a period of years ahead , and in relation to prospective resources ; decisions involving substantial future expenditure should be taken in light of these surveys . ’ |
| 14 | Today the trees have gone but the lead cast of the Stephen Tomlin sculpture of her head stares out from the garden towards the marshes . |
| 15 | Her father looked up from the newspaper and nodded . |
| 16 | Outside young girls in pairs hold hands facing each other and , leaning back , they pirouette so fast that their shawls flare out from the tops of their heads . |
| 17 | But 20 years have at least seen her interests come in from the cold . |
| 18 | Novell Inc is putting another element in place in its quest to move out from the local network into the enterprise-wide network . |
| 19 | She tried to keep her tone light , matter-of-fact , but her mother swung round from the sink where she had just begun to prepare vegetables for lunch , and her father lowered his paper and peered over his glasses at her . |
| 20 | At this she cut herself a narrow wedge from the pie , and when her mother turned round from the oven and looked at her plate , she remarked , ‘ You wo n't get fat on that . |
| 21 | Before Tamar could protest that she intended to call her son George , her mother-in-law looked up from the child . |
| 22 | Renoir had some of his canvases taken down from the wall so that Modigliani could look at them more closely . |
| 23 | He rang off , and it was only minutes before they heard the chug of the engine of his jeep coming down from the hills in the still of the morning . |
| 24 | In his first reign at Everton , Kendall 's fortunes changed when his side came back from the dead in a Milk Cup tie against Oxford back in 1984 . |
| 25 | His mind reeled back from the effort . |
| 26 | Bigwig 's eyes were closed and his lips pulled back from the long front teeth in a fixed snarl . |
| 27 | At the Church Meeting on the 9th , we appointed Jim Brooks as our new church secretary in succession to Malcolm Brown who had intimated in June his desire to step down from the post . |
| 28 | Mr Pigdon started , his attention drawn back from the threatening sky . |
| 29 | His head came up from the bin , and his eyes looked like little flames of candle . |
| 30 | His lordship looked up from the book and passed a weary hand across his forehead . |