Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] from [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Add to those characteristics the meticulous almost fussy ways which Anthony has picked up from his father , and you have a close family likeness — yet to Anthony they are almost completely unacknowledged and unrecognised . |
| 2 | Since covering the restoration of the Benson Gustav in the July issue , much feedback has come in from our ever-vigilant readers . |
| 3 | Jane has looked up from her papers . |
| 4 | The criticism has moved on from his tax details to the way in which the corporation is run . |
| 5 | In addition , Intasun has pulled back from its initial moves into the hotel market . |
| 6 | Yeah , she 's great — she has split up from her husband and works for her and the kids , a really independent woman who 's been messed around by men and is now looking after herself . |
| 7 | ‘ She 'll be here in an hour or so , when she has dried off from her boat trip with Polidori . |
| 8 | A partner may feel cut off from their spouse unless they know how to communicate easily . |
| 9 | That , too , is explicable , and though Jackie himself puts it down , with much humour , to being a Scot , it is more likely the product of a powerful drive to succeed left over from his motor-racing days . |
| 10 | When the local doctor , confounded by the sparrow size of his patients , informed the couple that they were to become parents , llya Holovich had dropped her lined and weary face to her chest and wept , and Stepan Holovich had jumped up from his chair and then scratched between his thin grey hair and laughed . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , Chapman had flown in from his palatial home on Ibiza and was in his usual itchy , touchy , irritable pre-race state . |
| 12 | In the wake of the F-111s that had flown out from their British bases to bomb targets in Tripoli and Benghazi , Mutual Radio 's correspondent arrived on the scene on 17 April with a laissez passer from the Libyan Consulate in Zurich . |
| 13 | Gary Moore , a born again bluesman who certainly needs no introduction from us , had broken off from his European tour especially to take part in the event . |
| 14 | This is usually because they 've never thought much about Christianity and the only opinions that they have got are ones that they 've picked up from their parent(s) or the TV . |
| 15 | When he had finished packing , he had tapped on her door , and she had looked up from her books , grateful for the interruption . |
| 16 | The young woman had visited both the museum and the castle before and had looked down from their heights onto the epidemic of streets below , between the top of the hill and the broad curve of the Bay . |
| 17 | Kalchu 's younger brother had come over from his neighbouring hut and the two men sat spinning , talking and looking after the small children until their wives returned . |
| 18 | Everyone knew the story of how old man Reynolds had come up from nothing to be a landowner . |
| 19 | AS THE deadline approached for this quarter 's issue of Wood News , there was a certain amount of nervousness at John Wood House , since only a few stories had come through from our new network of Correspondents . |
| 20 | He had come in from his dressing room and Eileen was waiting , dressed and ready for the dinner party . |
| 21 | That was what his sharp intelligence had picked up from their first meeting . |
| 22 | Rachaela thought of the day she had seen her in the snow , the day Emma had bowed out from their lives with urgent smiles . |
| 23 | Tammuz had turned around from his workstation . |
| 24 | Saad , whose mighty voice had welled up from his entrails . |
| 25 | As General Erich von Falkenhayn , in overall command of the German forces on the front , was later to comment : ‘ After a relatively short artillery preparation they [ the Russian troops ] had got up from their trenches and simply marched forward . ’ |
| 26 | Meanwhile Linton had got up from his armchair and gone out to join Cathy and Hareton . |
| 27 | The roofs were most often not their own : long since , the community had drawn in from its perimeter , sharing its water , its food and its warmth , and distancing itself so far as might be from the walls and the thud of the cannon . |
| 28 | She cast a quick , cautious glance at the little girl , fearing that she might have overheard , but Kirsty had slid down from her chair and was quite clearly totally absorbed in watching the antics of the hotel cat through the window . |
| 29 | And then he had watched two men leave the Tower and walk across towards the Stones , towards his Stones , and he had clambered down from his perch and hidden himself where they would not see him but where he could watch them . |
| 30 | He gasped out his news even as Corbett , who had hurried down from his chamber , helped him out of the saddle . |