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Used to indicate source or provenance.

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I got a letter from my brother.

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Originating at (a year, time, etc.)

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This manuscript is from the 1980s.

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Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.

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Face away from the wall!

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Indicating removal or separation.

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After twenty minutes, remove the cake from the oven.

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Indicating exclusion.

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A parasol protects from the sun.

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Indicating differentiation.

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He knows right from wrong.

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Produced with or out of (a substance or material).

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It's made from pure gold.

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Used to indicate causation; because of, as a result of.

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Too many people die from breast cancer.

Is the ranch far from here?

He leaped from his horse.

What are you going to hide from me that I haven't already seen?

After that other people brought water from a brook and sprinkled the earth.

Unhitch those tugs, Zeb, and set me free from the buggy, so I can fight comfortably.

She backed away from him.

Is the gulf far from here?

The sparkle faded from his eyes, leaving them soft sweet chocolate pools.

Water was dripping from the trees, and the grass was wet.

We'll have to walk from here.

The Christmas tree could only be seen from the back of the house, but that didn't matter.

He got his satchel from the buggy and, opening it, took out two deadly looking revolvers that made the children shrink back in alarm just to look at.

She retrieved them from her purse and handed them to him.

Alex said from the doorway.

Where did you come from?

Then he took from his pocket a sheet of paper on which some verses were written.

In just eighteen months from now, we will have duplicated that again and effectively doubled our computation power.

He moved away from the tree.

A sweet voice called from another room.

He shut the door and walked away from the car.

He got down from his horse and very gently took the little ones up in his big warm hands.

His gaze shifted away from her.

Sure, but we don't need that from the technology.

She pushed the thought from her mind and turned to him.

She started to rise from her chair.

The only bait he could find was a bright red blossom from a flower; but he knew fishes are easy to fool if anything bright attracts their attention, so he decided to try the blossom.

We were lucky to get away from those dreadful vegetable people.

From the foyer, they entered a huge room with a wide staircase that curved gracefully from the balcony on the second floor.

From the corner of her eye, she saw Alex watching her.

She felt dizzy from breathing off the top of her lungs.

Once you get away from him, stay away.

The next moment a broad-leaved plant was jerked from the ground where it grew and held suspended in the air before the Wizard.

The school was more than a mile from their home, and the children trotted along as fast as their short legs could carry them.

From the garden it looked like an arbour.

They used to hang in long festoons from our porch, filling the whole air with their fragrance, untainted by any earthy smell; and in the early morning, washed in the dew, they felt so soft, so pure, I could not help wondering if they did not resemble the asphodels of God's garden.

From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats.

When the back door closed, she emerged from her room.

There was little sound from the kitchen as well.

We can't call from here!

The day before they were scheduled to leave, Alex came home from work and asked to see the tickets.

Lisa rolled her face away from the bright window.

I sat at a table after randomly pulling half dozen books from the shelf.

How do we stop him from tracking us down?

I slipped from my mother's lap and almost ran toward them.

From time to time she smoothed the folds of her dress, and whenever the story produced an effect she glanced at Anna Pavlovna, at once adopted just the expression she saw on the maid of honor's face, and again relapsed into her radiant smile.

That ridge was the only thing that had kept her from plunging over the edge... that and the man who was now glaring at her.

It was nearly dark and she was a good fifty miles from home.

The braids had to be untangled in order to shampoo the mud from her hair.

She gently worked her nightgown out from under him, hoping all the while that he wouldn't wake.

Once the garage door was secured, she pulled away from the house.