Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a television address , he called on deputies to pull back from the brink . |
| 2 | In a television address , he called on deputies to pull back from the brink . |
| 3 | Practice varies , and it is good practice to find out from the beginning in order to avoid unpleasant surprises at a later date . |
| 4 | In towns , give way to buses indicating , an intention to move out from the bus stops , if you can do so safely . |
| 5 | Peter then approaches the blackboard on which he writes the date , 5 November : this is the cue for the jazz to take over from the calypso ( in more strident tones than before ) as an indication of the disturbing events which follow . |
| 6 | The time taken by the sound of each click to bounce back from the rock to the bird , enables the swiftlet to judge just how far away it is from the rock wall ahead . |
| 7 | PETER RAWLINS , a former partner with accountants Arthur Andersen , has emerged as the International Stock Exchange 's next chief executive following the decision of Jeffrey Knight to stand down from the post , writes John Moore . |
| 8 | It always feels like an admission of failure to come back from the Continent and have nothing to show for it . |
| 9 | At the Church Meeting on the 9th , we appointed Jim Brooks as our new church secretary in succession to Malcolm Brown who had intimated in June his desire to step down from the post . |
| 10 | The rocks or stones at the pool boundary retain the bog-garden soil yet allow water to percolate through from the pool . |
| 11 | CUSTOM STANDARDS Manson ‘ Classic S ’ This handmade blend of the traditional and the modern aims to stand out from the crowd with its high-class simplicity and the best and latest in hardware … |
| 12 | It did show excellent character to bounce back from the start … one plus point from the first half . |
| 13 | McAllister had five birdies in the space of seven inward holes to turn back from the brink of disaster . |
| 14 | As Hassan 's comment half-implies , it may in some areas be time for criticism to move on from the task of defining postmodernism in relation to its antecedents . |
| 15 | It is this incredible flexibility that allows us to juggle page layouts in just a few minutes and produce a fresh piece of artwork each time rather than wait hours , even days , for the re-worked page to come back from the artist 's studio . |
| 16 | I I 've got a bill to come in from the electrician for his call-out charge he diagnosed that it 's was not an electrical fault and then thought it was an electrical fault by the noise , it was making a fizzing noise but he does n't th he said it 's , it 's the pump the pump is on the way out it needs replacing house is built in nineteen eighty five ! |
| 17 | In such cases of disagreement between professionally and theoretically interested parties , it sometimes proves a useful corrective to step back from the problem and to enquire into ‘ folk ’ conceptions regarding the relevant issues . |
| 18 | On being told that the men still unaccounted for could not be contacted by the trapped men , the Manager asked for a volunteer to go down from the surface and search inwards from the main shaft . |
| 19 | Error comes in if one over-interprets the relevance of these conclusions , by forgetting the artificial constraints of the experiment and instead assuming that in real life , outside the laboratory so to say , such changes involving only a single variable can actually take place ; that it is a simple matter to extrapolate back from the artificiality of laboratory isolation to the complex , rich interconnectedness of the real world . |
| 20 | This crying , this wailing , this mass of thick air gathered from thousand upon thousand square miles of nothingness , scooped up , pushed and banked against every object which has the temerity to stand up from the surface of the earth ; this was weird , oppressive , invasive . |
| 21 | This kind of planting can be dull in summer , so Jenny and Michael planted clematis to sprawl over from the border behind , the rich colouring of C. viticella ‘ Etoile Violette ’ contrasting with the dull bronze conifers . |
| 22 | The thing about the solo is that it should really be a chance for the guitar to take over from the vocalist and really hit you in the heart like vocals can , and I 'm sorry but these heavy metal solos can never really hit you because it 's just music by numbers . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I involved myself by phoning the hotel to find out from the boss what was going on . |
| 24 | He also does painted constructions , some of which have been known to hang from the ceiling and others to rise up from the floor like tents . |
| 25 | ‘ Sometimes it is important for the individual to step back from the fray , ’ said , ‘ and describe to themselves what the work problems are and build up an action programme for themselves . |
| 26 | The calculated , dictated fairness that the ration book represented went on into the new decade , and when we moved from Hammersmith to Streatham Hill in 1951 there were medicine bottles of orange juice and jars of Virol to pick up from the baby clinic for my sister . |
| 27 | But although there was ample room lengthways for sitters to draw back from the blaze sufficiently for comfort , there was less space broadways-on , so that the pairs had to sit fairly close together — which suited Alexander Ramsay very well , for he shared a bench with Mariot . |
| 28 | That was strange starting to add up from the centre you do n't usually do that . |
| 29 | We have planned the desserts to follow on from the evening meal , as after the main meal we often like to have something sweet to eat . |