Example sentences of "[adv prt] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that 's , you see there 's , there 's a few comes at the , even at the present moment , there 's some come down from every year . |
| 2 | Nominated for two BAFTA Awards , WIDOWS was a critical and popular success turning assumptions about professional crime upside down from a woman 's point of view ( the widows ) . |
| 3 | Often a priority given to some activity in this police hierarchy of meaning has been laid down from a constable 's first days as a probationer and now lies beneath the immediate consciousness , so that any calls for a change in direction of police response may well be defeated by an unspoken semantic value which the institution gives to that activity . |
| 4 | Try jumping down from a low platform , landing with bent knees . |
| 5 | Looking down from a small window in the lodge house , the factor Robert Menzies was terrified to see the throngs of people , like herds of cattle milling at a tryst . |
| 6 | Slaver ran down from a corner of his mouth . |
| 7 | As they grow into their compact form , their beautifully regular , heart-shaped leaves hang down from a tangle of branches to give glorious dappled shade from the hottest summer sun . |
| 8 | The new benchmark ten-year government bond yielded 6.3% on February 20th , down from a peak of 7.9% ( on a compound yield basis ) at the end of September . |
| 9 | America 's visible-trade deficit narrowed to $9.7 billion in November , down from a revised $11.0 billion the previous month . |
| 10 | Indeed , the average current-account balance ( ignoring whether the balance is a surplus or deficit ) of the big seven industrial economies is forecast to fall to only 0.6% of their collective GNP this year , down from a peak of 3.0% in 1986 . |
| 11 | The following night , I was speaking at a transport dinner in London and found myself sitting two or three down from a general . |
| 12 | A man leaped down from a window five storeys high and drowned in the river . |
| 13 | When the clock struck , the preacher came down from a little room behind the platform , followed by ten or a dozen men who looked like prosperous City merchants . |
| 14 | Costain shares closed at 64p on Friday , down from a 1991 peak of 223p . |
| 15 | The pre-tax outcome for the year to January was still a hefty £9.1m loss — down from a restated £11½m deficit — and the £10m drop in the interest bill owes much to the £30m equity injection from Japan 's Aeon Group . |
| 16 | Ufton went in for England 's third try in 49 minutes and then flanker Robert Leach touched down from a five-metre scrummage , Stimpson converting . |
| 17 | Now , suddenly , a jay looks down from a hiding place in a lichened oak and slips away without breaking the silence : stealthy , cunning , typical of the inveterate egg thief . |
| 18 | Another part of the exhibition is a caseful of just such gifts , presumably dusted down from a very full royal attic : a Maori figure with crossed eyes , a table with cowrie shells hanging from it as from an Australian hat , a fetching Japanese lacquer picnic set and a sinister raffia figure wearing a balaclava . |
| 19 | The bodies of the leaders were taken to Milan where they were hung upside down from a girder in front of a petrol station in Piazza Loreto . |
| 20 | If you stand on a hill in winter when there is a thaw or look down from a motorway , especially in the Midlands , you can hardly miss the pattern of long parallel bands of snow , which are always the last to go from the hollows of the old ridge and furrow . |
| 21 | Two streams come down from a hilly hinterland and after a sedate infancy suddenly leap in a happy frolic through verdant surroundings to reach the village where they converge as the River Greta . |
| 22 | When the caterpillar is fully grown it usually hangs upside down from a leaf or plant stem , and begins to pupate . |
| 23 | In any other season you could have looked down from a ridge just below the pastures where the sheep were grazing and seen the village in miniature , a doll 's farm set in a patchwork of agricultural land that spread across the valley floor . |
| 24 | He needed to come down from a greater height than most . |
| 25 | A shot which misses the green left still gives your the chance of a chip and putt for par , rather than the extra pressure of having to get up and down from a bunker . |
| 26 | So powerful were the effects of this philosophy that to those who looked down from a higher level in society , the suffering became invisible ; or if not invisible , then transparent , and their view was not arrested by it but looked through it at what they took to be economic verities beyond . |
| 27 | Different players will find it harder than others to come down from a game . |
| 28 | The South African sun burns down from a cloudless sky . |
| 29 | Even quite senior figures in the system just went through the motions of working and fulfilling the crazy plan laid down from a great height without taking local conditions into account . |
| 30 | Cop the name of the man ( above ) who is stepping down from a top job . |