Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The food at the hotel is mostly flown in from Vienna , so staying at Fudauri is Georgian extra-extra luxury . |
| 2 | Such was the slowness and enclosedness of all her movements that the girls instinctively looked up from their school books to follow her closely . |
| 3 | It 's great fun , very enjoyable , but for a young women who 's perhaps come up from a convent or an all girls ' school and who feels very uncomfortable with this person because he 's thirty years older and has power over here , it 's not perceived in the same way . |
| 4 | There 's a great deal of double counting that takes place , it might be that some honourable members in this house actually appear upon two registers , one in London and one within the area in which they reside , normally within their constituency and many people are merely carried over from past registers , without any serious canvassing taking place to find out whether they are the people to be on the registers or whether someone else should be put in their place . |
| 5 | Among those I met or saw were the Begum Aga Khan , who was with her very attractive daughter Princess Zahra Aga Khan ; the Director General of the British Equestrian Foundation Major Malcolm Wallace , two of our top Event riders Miss Karen Straker and Mrs Jane Thelwall ; and Mr Andrew Dixon , who had all come over from England with the Hermès party ; Mr Peter Laing , the Hon. |
| 6 | As the arrivals list is only made up from guests who have made reservations in advance , it will not show ‘ chance ’ guests or a guest who changes rooms after the list has been circulated . |
| 7 | There are one or two passably funny lines which fail to make up a coherent , witty whole but are suddenly shot out from an invisible pea-shooter as if whipped from Ms Rudner 's stand-up routine . |
| 8 | Far from Freud 's concept of the super-ego being one which assumes the super-ego to be entirely built up from outside , from social relationships with parents and educators only — as Parsons — claims — it , too , contains instinctual elements . |
| 9 | Georgie Fame , Billy Fury and Pet Clarke all dusted down from retirement and brought back to our screens ? |
| 10 | I do n't know , Victorine said : it was all pulled down from one day to the next , and you know it happened during the war , everything was topsy-turvy then . |
| 11 | Several papers report on Goldie the goldfish which was apparently brought back from the dead when its owner gave it the kiss of life and poured whisky down its throat . |
| 12 | Now I was about to meet him again , it was as if I had suddenly woken up from a syrupy dream . |
| 13 | One of his gunners , FS Cameron , who oddly enough baled out from two aircraft whose captains , ultimately , were posthumously awarded the VC , has his portrait in that magnificent War Museum at Canberra . |
| 14 | He did not take his readers back into history so much as bring Thomas Paine , William Hazlitt , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Sir Walter Scott [ qq.v. ] , and others forward , as if they had suddenly walked in from the street . |
| 15 | The rhinoceros hornbill — which , like most hornbills , prefers the same type of trees that loggers prefer — is having its world literally cut out from under it . |
| 16 | They wept on their last day of work : ‘ I felt terrible ’ ; ‘ it seemed as though you were suddenly cut off from life . ’ |
| 17 | As soon as it 's over the phone rings ( they 've had a phone put in so that they can get bread and groceries delivered , and feel less cut off from doctors and fire services ) . |
| 18 | We felt less cut off from society as a whole and I was particularly pleased to be able to listen to good music on a regular basis . |
| 19 | Bonn still refused to recognise East Germany 's existence and remained diplomatically cut off from countries in Eastern Europe who did recognise her , but trade with Eastern Europe was expanded . |
| 20 | On the village green stood black life-size silhouette figures of fiddle and accordion players , apparently cut out from thin sheets of iron . |
| 21 | She was not fooled for an instant nor so cut off from news that she had not heard that war was in the air again . |
| 22 | But the irony is that a human being , with all his potential capacity for understanding , is actually so cut off from his fellow humans that a plant sometimes has better perceptions at the subtle level than he has ! |
| 23 | There is an increasing number of young inmates so cut off from their feelings that they have no fear and no sense of compassion . |
| 24 | Polio , apparently passed on from a human epidemic in the region , had already reduced their numbers . |
| 25 | Who were the country gentlemen who were so put out from pursuing their time-honoured pastime ? |
| 26 | For no other subject of public concern — not for economic policy , disarmament , welfare reform , nuclear power plants — has the professional outlook on a controversy been so shut off from a voice in the national press . |
| 27 | The charge is let in or out of each capacitor by its own switch but the charge continually drains away so it needs to be constantly topped up from the mains or battery . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | What about Timo Metsola 's electronics outfit in Finland — where you 've just flown back from ? |
| 30 | For a moment , the sergeant had that same sense of disorientation when the lights went up at the end of an afternoon programme in the cinema and he felt he had just flown back from another world . |