Example sentences of "[adv prt] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He stepped down from parliament this year ( having served for 18 years ) . |
| 32 | Jane had ‘ missed her first ’ and went down from university with only a two-one in English Language and Literature , thus deprived of the academic career she had coveted with cowardice . |
| 33 | In picking Snow as anchor , ITN bosses replaced a Tory royalist with someone sent down from university ‘ following political disturbances ’ ; and , equally boldly , they chose to skip a generation . |
| 34 | By dint of special effort , our Captain had managed to save the honour of the team by recruiting the services of the Baptist Minister 's Son , down from university , and securing the participation of Miss Mack 's Solicitor . |
| 35 | He has in fact got a job , now his father mentions it , and an astonishingly good one , too , for someone in his first year down from university . |
| 36 | At the office Howard surrounds himself with a team of young men and women just down from university . |
| 37 | My father still had full use of both his legs at the time , and had to use them to run up and down from kitchen or lounge to the bedroom and back when Agnes rang the little bells sewn into the bell-bottoms of her jeans , which lay draped over a chair by the side of the bed . |
| 38 | Touching on some individual countries , Dr Mobius commented : Argentina — good last year but Templeton now completely out ; Hong Kong — benefiting from growth in China , lots of bargains ; Indonesia — down from peak and very interesting ; Turkey — growing awakening of the need for fairness in the market ; Poland — will become big ; South Africa — too high but big potential from black consumers . |
| 39 | The moon was huge and monstrous in the darkness : a full , bright circle , like a blind eye staring down from nothingness . |
| 40 | They scrape me down from head to foot — my torn clothes , my hands , my broken knees , the nose on my face . |
| 41 | Here it proved a network of veins including the powerful Belman 's Hole Vein , the result being a rich and continuous course of ore — The Californian Bunch — all the way down from surface to 10 fathoms below its random … not much short of 70 fathoms in all . |
| 42 | But thy silk twist let down from heav'n to me |
| 43 | They 've had him from the Wednesday , was it the Wed er , no from the Saturday to the Wednesday cos she was working and they took him on to seaside somewhere and when come home , he 's having stitches in his head where he 'd fell , he hit it on the stone or summat and I said oh did he enjoy it apart from that , she said he was a swine last night , he was screaming and hitting me and she called her husband down from work , she could n't control him , said she should of smacked his arse and put him in the cot . |
| 44 | And after he 'd climbed down from Cloud Nine , Brian told me to remind you that Cilla 's new album Through the Years , which does indeed feature duets with Barry Manilow , Cliff Richard and Dusty Springfield , is in the shops now . |
| 45 | Well within two hours after the mission took off there was an edict come down from group , no more stoves in the tents . |
| 46 | MAST ( Management and Skills Training ) was recruited to establish the Performance Development Review ( PDR ) , an appraisal system cascaded down from shift managers to team leaders . |
| 47 | He rarely even came down from town . ’ |
| 48 | Down from Chalk Farm tube , shivering , stumbling up from Camden Town , past a then-deserted lock , to be confronted by the soon-to-be-familiar queue . |
| 49 | The parent , Waste Management Inc of Chicago , advised by Merrill Lynch , edged the price of the £439m international share offering down from 590p–600p to ensure a buoyant after-market and to keep institutional investors in Britain happy . |
| 50 | To want to be a millionaire was coarse , even ridiculous ; money somehow floated down from Daddy or was waiting in a will at the end of an estate — that , though rarely the reality , was a prevailing view , and rather attractive in its unworldly dimension . |
| 51 | The memory of how beautiful advertising executive Elizabeth never backed down from danger still manages to bring a sad , proud smile to her parents ' faces . |
| 52 | Georgie Fame , Billy Fury and Pet Clarke all dusted down from retirement and brought back to our screens ? |
| 53 | They were closed down from time to time and checked the day prior to our morning operation . |
| 54 | We analysed these data ourselves , and found that many subject departments sent individuals or small groups to the library in connection with subject or project work , while others seem to have brought whole classes down from time to time . |
| 55 | There 's been a lot of stuff come down from county . |
| 56 | quite easy , well it was comparatively easy , only trouble was of course that erm at night erm one had to go right down from County Hall to Barrett Corner to get on the bus because they were so full by the time they got to County Hall and erm so I used to walk down there with erm a chap from the Education Department , who was in the Works and Stores , a chap and erm , he was quite helpful . |
| 57 | It was the last of several stops on the way down from Dún Laoghaire . |
| 58 | David Gilford , for instance , hits the fairway with his tee shot at least 80% of the time , Tony Johnstone gets up and down from greenside bunkers around 90% of the time and , just as remarkable , Colin Montgomerie hits 77% of greens in regulation . |
| 59 | Dauntless leapt down from Contralto 's back . |
| 60 | It was one of the few times he did n't get up and down from trouble , and that put us level . |