Example sentences of "step [adv prt] from [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Cop the name of the man ( above ) who is stepping down from a top job .
2 Schaffer stepped down from the railed entranceway and watched them going .
3 DIXONS Group financial director Tony Dignum will step down from the electrical retailer 's main board early next month but will remain finance director of its shops in Britain and America .
4 Dowd stepped back from the dying man as if slapped .
5 Peggy stepped back from the old woman .
6 Tammuz faced him and Quincx Roirbak stepped back from the raw emotion on the younger man 's face .
7 He stepped out from the dimly-lit doorway of a sidewalk cafe to greet Ybreska with no more than a curt nod of his head .
8 ‘ I do n't think he is going to be stepping back from the front line , ’ he said .
9 In a move to tighten control of a far-reaching empire and to improve the group 's own image , Maurice and Charles Saatchi , credited with building up the company , have stepped down from the day-to-day running of the group .
10 Charles and Maurice Saatchi have stepped back from the top executive roles and have recruited Frenchman Robert Louis-Dreyfus as chief executive .
11 Charles and Maurice Saatchi have stepped back from the top executive roles and have recruited Frenchman Robert Louis-Dreyfus as chief executive .
12 Divison Three leaders Llanivaloes include spinner Michael Jones and Ian Jones , who steps up from the second team , for the home encounter with Cound .
13 The biggest Orcs of all are the Warbosses and Warlords , but there are some almost equally big Orcs who consider themselves just one step down from the great leader himself .
14 You approach it along the narrowest road which creeps warily on the side of a steep chalk plateau , one step up from the flat farm land which , after a mile or so , tumbles to West Fleet and over Chesil Beach into the sea .
15 The creation of the system was interpreted by Bilson [ 1979 ] as : " … the first step back from the rugged individualism and national self-interest that lay behind the formal acceptance of flexible exchange rates at the Jamaica meetings of the International Monetary Fund in January 1976 . "
16 Whether Hewlett-Packard will actually licence System V.4 or a subsequent implementation from Unix Labs remains to be seen , but its intent is to step up from the current Unix V.3.2 , System V Interface Definition 2-derived HP-UX version 9.03 operating system — which includes multithreading support from AT&T Unix — to a COSE-compliant , Unix Labs Unix-based system during the first half of next year is clear .
17 Whether HP will actually licence SVR4 or a subsequent implementation from USL remains to be seen , but its intent is to step up from the current Unix V.3.2 , SVID 2-derived HP-UX version 9.03 operating system — which includes multithreading support from AT&T Unix — to a COSE-compliant , USL Unix-based system during the first half of next year is clear .
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