Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] from the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is Israeli ‘ absentee ’ legislation and there are land expropriation laws passed on from the British mandate . |
| 2 | Could you repeat the bit about the insect-headed aliens gazing down from the spinning globules of light ? |
| 3 | The capes are famous for a confused and ugly swell , and peculiar lumps of wind that crash down from the coastal peaks of the Taurus Mountains . |
| 4 | There was a second figure , which they did n't see : high above them , Timothy Gedge gazed down from the cliff-top path . |
| 5 | When this happens it is time to celebrate and consider all the various offers raining in from the major labels . |
| 6 | He had indeed caught on from the bad vibes the driver had been giving out — the nervousness , the pale sweat-beaded face , the rapid eye movement towards the back seat — that something was bothering the guy . |
| 7 | The horse pounded surefooted along the tunnels , leaping sudden slides of rubble and adroitly sidestepping huge stones as they thundered down from the straining roof . |
| 8 | Reproaching herself for not having unlocked it when she had come in from the main door , she rose quickly and went to open up . |
| 9 | He rubbed his eyes and peered down from the top bunk . |
| 10 | Civil Service have conceded fewer goals than any other team in the division , and had Howell not taken the decision to stand down from the top flight , he could have been elevated to the Scottish senior international training squad this summer . |
| 11 | A lot of flood water had come down from the upper reaches of the Cherwell , and a body placed in the river , say , at Lonsdale Road … |
| 12 | Either a spark had come down from the old fellow 's hole up there or him with hobnail boots had trod on er black powder and set it off and his hole went out underneath his feet . |
| 13 | With this as the acquired recording , it was exceedingly difficult — or so it seemed at the time — to slip down from the stress-filled beta-waves of everyday living , to those desired alpha-waves of mental quiet and healing . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | At the 40th session of the UNHCR Executive Committee in October 1989 the 43 member states adopted a general programme budget of $190,000,000 for the first six months of 1990 only ; after extensive debate at an extraordinary session in May 1990 and at the regular session in October , the Executive Committee finally adopted a general programme budget for 1990 amounting to $378,885,900 , including the $38,000,000 deficit carried over from the previous year . |
| 16 | They would have preferred process control and development staff to have established the new processes , and would have preferred to recruit ‘ green labour ’ to the new machines so that ‘ bad habits ’ would not have been carried over from the old production process . |
| 17 | Sorry , the ghost has n't come over from the other side of the door , it just keeps moving by itself . |
| 18 | now she has an iris mountain , with Sir Cedric 's and the many more she grew from seed brought back from America , fenced off from the main garden in her ‘ Stalag 13 look ’ . |
| 19 | Yet Lankester often ignored this warning in his own work , and suggested that all forms of life can be ranked into grades defined by the point at which they branched off from the main line of progress towards humankind . |
| 20 | Once before , you rose up from the great forests of Ireland and came to the aid of our greatest King of all , Cormac of the Wolves . |
| 21 | A blast of warm foetid air rose up from the precipitous staircase to greet us . |
| 22 | ‘ They seemed convinced a whole lot of people had come up from the big city to show off , to be grandees , which was far from the truth . |
| 23 | These are not intended to represent any specific location , but explore possible burial histories for an undeformed layer cake thrust sheet built up from the following thicknesses : 2.5 km of Cambrian ( after Caledonian erosion — originally 2.75 km ) ; 3 km of Devonian ; 2 km of Lower Carboniferous ; 2 km of Upper Carboniferous . |
| 24 | He was magnificent in doing his job and never surrendering , or even looking like surrendering the lead he built up from the green light . |
| 25 | I have what I believe to be a very important piece of information for marine fish keepers which I have picked up from the marine scene in the USA . |
| 26 | Walking up from the main road we passed the camel drivers squatting round their early morning fires . |
| 27 | Dick Hebdige stands back from the virtual war |
| 28 | An imposing large house stands back from the main road , known as Thorne Hall , dated 1881 . |
| 29 | Cleo staggered back from the loving assault being bestowed upon her by the two larger animals . |
| 30 | He pressed , just hard enough , and drew back from the falling man . |