Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he 'd been able to keep from gloating , she 'd have ended up in his bed , which was what he 'd intended right from the beginning . |
| 2 | A month later , Churchill told the Commons that the role of the ‘ overlords ’ had developed naturally from the functions of Cabinet-committee chairmen in the Second World War and that ‘ the co-ordinating Ministers have no statutory powers . |
| 3 | Topics are likely to be examined only from the viewpoints held within the individual disciplines . |
| 4 | Tumours developed only from the CC-M2T cell line within six weeks . |
| 5 | The anthropologist 's social structure must be pieced together from a muddling mass of statements that Indians make about kinship connections , group names , ancestral derivations , linguistic affiliations , geographical sites , and so on … |
| 6 | Edmund 's Welsh alliance has to be pieced together from a twelfth-century poet , a contemporary German bishop , and two skaldic poems . |
| 7 | She had heard enough from the Julians to recognise in the disrepair something of the troubles of the Dersinghams . |
| 8 | Patched together from the remnants of the Docklands ramp which some yonks back had been acquired by Neil , Liverpool 's mini was a pretty unconventional affair — big transistors tweaked with smaller ones , no more then a few feet of flat bottom — and it rode like a ditch . |
| 9 | It is a convention in Elizabethan drama that slander is always believed , which can be explained perhaps from the necessities of the limited time available , or is perhaps a truth about life ( how many of us instantly disbelieve bad report ? ) . |
| 10 | For our experiments we used a cubical tank of water seeded with silicon carbide grit of fairly uniform size , which was cooled uniformly from the top . |
| 11 | With their emphasis on a world of forest spirits and magical dominations , they seem to have differed little from the experiences and practices of mainland Northern Europe . |
| 12 | There followed a rather more conventional period where his activities seem to have differed little from the other young gentlemen of his day ; he studied scientific works on medicine and the natural sciences and pursued a particular interest in taking thermometer readings under varying conditions , including some from the craters of Italian volcanoes . |
| 13 | Siddhi , who had been Foreign Minister for 10 years but was considered hostile to Chatichai 's Cambodia policy and to any rapprochement with Vietnam [ see p. 37654 ] , was dropped altogether from the government . |
| 14 | Yet he is included quite correctly on the Bayeux memorial to the missing as belonging to the S.A.S. By some error , however , his name is omitted altogether from the Edinburgh University war memorial under the arches of the Old Quad , where daily we used to meet . |
| 15 | The Government has also backpedalled furiously from a threat made last week by the Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , to scupper the bill if the vote on the social chapter was lost . |
| 16 | The Thames and Severn , begun in 1783 , was six years later passing thirty-ton barges into the Thames at Inglesham , but even so the river itself remained largely unimproved and in the 1790s manufactured goods from Birmingham for London were still being carried overland from the end of the Oxford Canal . |
| 17 | Haw , haw ! ’ — would not have differed greatly from an average week in your average sit-com . |
| 18 | Some bats can send out a stream of two hundred clicks in a single second , each lasting only a thousandth of a second and spaced sufficiently from the other to allow each echo to be heard . |
| 19 | His plan was audacious , and could have come only from a man combining cunning with iron determination . |
| 20 | [ These appointments were omitted inadvertently from the roundups of republican appointments on p. 37384 and p. 37460 . ] |
| 21 | Dead cells are shed constantly from the upper layer and replaced by cells from the lower layers . |
| 22 | Coins can be grouped together from an examination of their designs , and different levels of precision are possible . |
| 23 | Finally , Objectives 5(a) and 5(b) differed somewhat from the previous four in not being concerned with industrialisation as such , but with rural re-structuring and development . |
| 24 | The report adds that the question of " burden sharing " is crucial , as past accumulations of greenhouse gases have come largely from the industrialised world while future growth is likely to come increasingly from the developing nations . |
| 25 | Plaster had come away from the walls from ceiling to floor , and along the lower part the bared cement , originally grey , was stained yellow and smelt of urine . |
| 26 | Mr Widmer praised the minister for his ‘ sympathetic attitude ’ and said the company had come away from the meeting re-assured that it would not be forced to move . |
| 27 | It 's come away from the zip er er I do n't know whether it 's er |
| 28 | It 's the first time I 've come away from an exhibition thinking that the exhibition as such was stupid . |
| 29 | Cole ( 1986 ) has investigated twelve high-use and twelve low-use campsites located away from the main tourist access routes in three desert vegetation types consisting of desert scrub , catclaw ( Acacia greggi ) and piñon-juniper ( Pinus edulie–Juniperus osteosperma ) communities . |
| 30 | The road wound away from the Martin farm into the outskirts of the village . |