Example sentences of "[verb] from " in BNC.

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1 On 28 July 1930 I disembarked from the Sorrento at Constanza in the Black Sea .
2 SARHWU claimed that 500-800 of its members were attacked by 1,000 strike-breaking vigilantes as they disembarked from trains at Germiston .
3 As they disembarked from the jet , they were strangers .
4 The Odeon dominated from the highest point in Exeter , surrounded by terraced houses like regular furrows in a ploughed field .
5 It was dominated from the start by Marxism , proclaiming the industrial proletariat as saviours of the human race .
6 Instead , he proposes a new domestic freedom : ‘ You must leave your surroundings sketchy , unfinished , so that you are never contained , never confined , never dominated from the outside ! ’
7 Abak from Integrated Furniture Systems consists of a series of panels , hung on a tubular metal framework with integral adjustable feet .
8 Within minutes of disembarking from the boats and starting the search we all found to our disappointment that the good weather still had n't dried out the long grass of the islands , and we were all soon soaking .
9 On the street outside the Marriott , in the rather rum section of town the locals affectionately have dubbed Pigalle Place , we had encountered Malgosia , a twenty-three-year-old prostitute , disembarking from a car .
10 We had arrived at Orange a week previously , and after disembarking from the coach had been ordered into the barrack rooms by our Corporals , who were waiting outside on the parade ground .
11 When he saw Mrs Goreng disembarking from her jeep , he at once made himself scarce , retiring through the back of the shop to his living-quarters and instructing me to deal with this dissatisfied , difficult , and , in all likelihood , dangerous customer .
12 Parliament also approved stricter laws allowing the deportation of illegal immigrants , wider powers for border police , and checks on potential refugees disembarking from aircraft .
13 There is nothing discreditable in a bailiff appropriating to his lord 's use his own products , e.g. to brew from his own barley , to make cloth and linen from his own wool and flax , feed his horses from his own produce .
14 It can be seen that a long list of students ( or any other units ) could be used for a random sample by this means simply by numbering from beginning to end , and this could be done with an automatic increasing numbering stamp .
15 The tentacle scales are small and variable , numbering from 0–5 , some are needle-like while others resemble small granules .
16 Gallonage costs are based on the lowest figure , and up to 160 gallons may be mixed from the 20kg pack in a fish-only set-up .
17 To defend their installed bases , equipment manufacturers , Input says , are responding to the trend by offering a growing portfolio of productised services which can be picked and mixed from a catalogue of traditional and new services .
18 Inside , the venue is dark , sweaty , with a pounding house beat from a rota of name DJs such as Alfredo , Danny Rampling and Andy Weatherall .
19 Her head beat from side to side and she said , ‘ Yes , yes , yes , yes , ’ again , then Lachlan — wiry , athletic-looking , skinny shanks ramming back and forth like some skinny bull — reached under her , pulled her up , his legs spreading , kneeling ; she hung onto him , arms round his neck , then after a few vertical stabs he threw her down , back onto the bed ; she grunted , arms still tight round his back , then she brought her legs up , right up over his thin , plunging , globe-buttocked behind , until her ankles were in the small of his back , rocking to and fro , feet crossed one over the other , locked there ; with one splayed hand she held onto his back , pressing him to her , and with the other hand she felt down the length of his body , over ribs and waist and hips , and with another grunt reached round and under , taking his balls in her hand , pressing them and kneading them and squeezing them .
20 Men descended to the galleries on ladders , often made from the timbers of wrecked ships , and ore was hauled to the surface in iron buckets called ‘ kibbles ’ , and sorted from the rock by women and children .
21 In two rounds of sprinting heats on the previous day , the wheat had been sorted from the chaff .
22 Juries saw no problem deciding whom they were to despatch from this world : let similar bodies decide who is to come into it .
23 He was in a gutter , cold clean water running around him , washing the grime and sleep from his face .
24 Yet when he made to take a line of stones he had surrounded from the board , the boy placed his hand over Tuan 's , stopping him , lifting his hand so that he might study the position , his face creased into a frown , as if trying to take in what he had done wrong .
25 The cloud lifted from Karl 's face .
26 It was a load lifted from the heart , a load we had not even known weighed us down .
27 BORIS MAVRA was lifted from the Oxford University boat , consumed by exhaustion .
28 With £10.8m cash under its belt , and earnings up 7 p.c. to 12½p a share , the payout is being lifted from 4.31p to 43/4p , with a 3.3p final on July 7 .
29 The dividend total is being lifted from 17.44p to 18p , with a 12.33p final on July 24 .
30 A part of this is personal : the shadow of Labour 's punitive taxation plans has been lifted from thousands of households .
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