Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv prt] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Gruagach had come storming down from the Northern Wastes and attacked Tara and stolen away the Wolfking 's son , Tara 's heir , the people of the half-world of the forest had vanished , afraid and timid . |
| 2 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 3 | In recent years the evidence for the health benefits of fibre , or ‘ roughage ’ as it used to be called , has grown so strong that it has filtered through from the medical journals and is now well known to the British and American public . |
| 4 | But in many circuits , significant source and load resistances will need factoring out from the upper and lower arm values respectively ( and scaled pro-rata ) , otherwise the implied accuracy will be false ) . |
| 5 | Just an hour later tory hopeful , John Taylor began his campaign with top level backing from Health Minister , William Waldegrave , visiting a old people 's home which has opted out from the local authority . |
| 6 | Saints will be fired up under new boss John McClelland , who has taken over from the sacked Alex Totten . |
| 7 | The Norther Woodworking and DIY Exhibition has taken over from the Northern exhibition that was held annually , later in the year , in Leeds and at Calderdale . |
| 8 | Has a lot to prove this term , after a poor season Has to move on from the promising youngster stage . |
| 9 | Suddenly there was a flash of lightning and a roll of thunder and the heavens burst sending us scuttling into the woods for shelter , but it was n't long before the rain got through and drenched us with miniature Niagaras that came cascading down from the broad leaves . |
| 10 | Gently they lifted the bedraggled form as Bert came lumbering down from the 3 and 4 landing , with Gilbert Forbes behind him , and behind him the trembling form of Jessie , wringing her hands . |
| 11 | Another type of chart helps parents begin to stand back from the emotional reactions they have and see what is happening with their child . |
| 12 | One can distinguish a typical trajectory — shown moving down from the upper left of the figure — as married couples reach the statutory retirement-age . |
| 13 | It said : ‘ The Princess of Wales would like to single out from the recent wave of misleading reports about the Royal Family assertions in some newspapers this week directed specifically against the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh . |
| 14 | It said : ‘ The Princess of Wales would like to single out from the recent wave of misleading reports about the Royal Family the assertions in some newspapers this week directed specifically against the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh . |
| 15 | There is a small triangular park behind it and the crowd may have spilled out from the Great Hall . |
| 16 | The blame fell on pollution ; not the clouds of smoke and occasional waves of sulphur dioxide which were known to drift up from the industrial valleys of the Ruhr and kill off the sensitive firs , but the more insidious long-term changes implied by acid rain . |
| 17 | Although Simmel is quoted , there is none of the subtlety of his analysis of the necessary contradictions of industrial society , and the emphasis on goals of happy homes and cohesive families appears cut off from the wider realms of social action . |
| 18 | I was not sure that I had been baptized ( having shrunk back from the outstretched hand with water in my late teens , believing baptism a piece of medieval nonsense ) , while wanting to be a member of the church . |
| 19 | Faces turned as he came out and sleepy people started to get up from the low walls and boulders it the side of the road . |
| 20 | Yes I put out an appeal to er my readers to search their attics and their er lofts and their garden sheds for all the things they might have left over from the second World War . |
| 21 | However , since personal and social difficulties are experienced by most people , the problems addressed in primary prevention in social work also include those complex processes whereby individuals become separated out from the general population , entering client careers with welfare agencies ( Greenley and Kirk , 1973 ; Hardiker and Barker , 1985 ) . |
| 22 | We know that the Trojan War , you know erm , what 's described in the Iliad and the Odyssey to the kiddies and er all these Greek and Greek heroes , we know that war actually happened , but it happened an awful long time before these poems were written and er Freud 's view is that what happens in a culture is there 's some initial traumatic event like the French Revolution or Trojan War , there 's a period of latency during which it seems to be forgotten about and nothing very much happens anyway , and then at a later stage it comes back again , there 's a return of a repressed and er Freud erm Freud quotes one or two other examples , er of the same kind of thing and Mike 's example is a very good one albeit er perhaps it 's good because it 's so recent , so the point you 're making Mike is that are you saying that Freud 's analogy is , is credible where French history and even industrial relations is concerned that there was a trauma , the Revolution of seventeen eighty nine , there were latency periods and then this kept coming back from the repressed time and time again ? |
| 23 | Not until kings grew weary of perambulating in bad weather over rough countryside from one provincial centre to another were judges appointed to branch out from the royal court on circuits known as eyres , listening to pleas and sorting out local problems . |
| 24 | He swerved past it , stopped and , looking back , saw Bigwig come racing in from the opposite side . |
| 25 | True , we were the two boys who did stand out from the other three by temper and temperament . |
| 26 | The new pseudo-science of ‘ counselling ’ , which seems to have taken over from the greater absurdity of analysis , may not be as destructive as its predecessor but it , too , has many of the characteristics of an enclosed cult like the Plymouth Brethren or the Moonies . |
| 27 | They seem to have taken over from the large black dogs with glowing red eyes to be found in most local folklore collections . |
| 28 | But it 's , it 's , it 's it sort a it 's , I think carrying through from the old borough days |
| 29 | Edmund ( John Kazek ) is a ludicrous , ranting , kilted boor who seems to have strayed in from the Scottish play . |
| 30 | The tree was gleaming green with new foliage that had broken out from the charred branches of the first encounter between the English and the islanders . |