Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv prt] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I suppose what we ought to focus on , is not so much the details of the ethnography so came up from the study , but erm but some of them are almost thieves |
| 2 | He had almost resigned himself to the fact that this cop was too cautious to be caught out like the one he had almost jumped five nights previously , when without warning the man below stepped out from the shelter of the deep doorway . |
| 3 | The smoke and steam was being sucked from the wreck by the storm wind anyway , and as it cleared Duvall suddenly shrank back from the shattered car window . |
| 4 | I could tell you that the eyes were so beautiful they could actually make you feel giddy when he suddenly looked up from the floor and straight at you . |
| 5 | After a minute or two the Asian suddenly slid out from the side of the big curtains and then stopped , a tray of drinks and ice creams round his neck . |
| 6 | It just bounced in from the garden . |
| 7 | The CAT scan apparently showed no damage to the brain , so it was something of a shock to the doctors as well as to Dawn 's parents when she finally came round from the coma after about a week with a left hemiplegia . |
| 8 | She might have sat all afternoon , nibbling and stuporous , exhausted but not sleepy ; but the glazier finally came down from the upper floor , cheerfully announcing that all was now right and tight and he would be on his way . |
| 9 | ‘ From what I can remember this lunatic just accelerated out from the side of the road . |
| 10 | ‘ She just shone out from the rest , ’ he says . |
| 11 | Ya see , I just flew in from the States and I took your British Airways — my all-time favourite airline — and you know what they did ? |
| 12 | It just took over from the lack of draw on the estate . |
| 13 | It just took over from the lack of draw on the estate . |
| 14 | The determined practical side of my nature soon took over from the lazy brooding one . |
| 15 | But I just looked up from the carpet with this great big reassuring smile and said there was nothing to worry about . ’ |
| 16 | Oh yeah , and I just looked up from the pillow and went oh , watch me shiver ! |
| 17 | ‘ Mother , she just jumped down from the wall on me like a ton of bricks … |
| 18 | Gilbert finally stood back from the portable machine on the floor . |
| 19 | The men once more jumped down from the wagon and found themselves ankle-deep in mud . |
| 20 | There was intense concern over the financial and social costs of absorbing hundreds of thousands of refugees who now flooded in from the East , but West Germany seemed in an excellent position to exploit the likely expansion of trade with Eastern Europe in future . |
| 21 | She now swung round from the table and , thrusting her head out towards her daughter , she almost hissed , ‘ What do you expect ? |
| 22 | In large part , they were ; the government now stood back from the operation , and the ‘ private ’ middlemen and cutouts took charge of it . |
| 23 | The SPA unanimously elected Kaysone Phomvihane , as the country 's new President , replacing Phoumi Vongvichit , who had served as President in an acting capacity since 1986 when he effectively took over from the ailing Souphanouvong [ see p. 35005 ] . |
| 24 | Yet most Dissenters did avail themselves of the relief afforded by the Declaration , and some eighty addresses of thanks were presented by various Nonconforming ministers and churches ; addresses even came in from the Quakers , who had refused to have anything to do with Charles 's Indulgence of 1672 . |
| 25 | Twamley then came in from the backyard and when accused by Riley , he denied it , offering also to be searched . |
| 26 | The couple then drove off from the beauty spot at Fort Nelson , near Fareham , Hants . |
| 27 | He said this quite casually , then stepped down from the pulpit and made his way to the centre of the altar once more . |
| 28 | We spent the whole morning climbing the steep , hard ice in the couloir 's depths , so were somewhat dismayed when two figures skiied up to the base of the couloir , raced up to and past us , virtually dispensing with runners and belays , and then abseiled down from the top of the hard climbing at one third height , passing us again . |
| 29 | Before that though , we 're going to get a huge fretsaw and cut along the borders of Essex and Suffolk and then saw down from The Wash to meet the other line . |
| 30 | It was here on the morning of the murder that a red Audi car then sped off from the area . |