Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun] from [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Campion had unhooked the mike for the multi-channel radio from under the dash , but he was n't speaking ; base desk was giving out a priority call and he 'd stopped with the mike on his knee and the coiled flex hanging loosely . |
| 2 | Where the general condition of a slated roof-slope is good , slipped slates may be resited by extracting the remains of the corroded fixings from beneath the overlapping course with a slater 's ripper . |
| 3 | She knocked loudly on the kitchen door and waited for a moment , aware of the total silence from within the room . |
| 4 | I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain . |
| 5 | One of the cheeky monkeys from down the road called after him ’ — she pointed at Charlie — ‘ the other day , ‘ Give us a tune on your ukulele , mister . ’ |
| 6 | Should not John Major have taken the opportunity to cut away more of the dead wood from among the cabinet 's other 20 members ? |
| 7 | It has progressed over the years to international status attracting many of the top riders from around the world . |
| 8 | To conservative opinion the emergence of a critical intelligentsia from within the womb of privileged society was puzzling . |
| 9 | A development which seems likely to bear fruit was the creation of a working party from within the panel . |
| 10 | But this was no more than the beginning ; for by now they knew very well that there were French knights fighting with the Scottish companies , and in fair numbers , too , and the south of England had been warned to look to its defences in case of a direct assault from across the channel . |
| 11 | It does not just consist of a single transition from to for each rotational level ; it includes lots of lines due to transitions with , where J is the general rotational quantum number . |
| 12 | Your family doctor may know one end of a thyroid gland from another-with any luck — but no especial wisdom is granted him because he sits in a surgery seeing one coughing person after another all day ; peering into ears and wombs and hearing tales of insomnia and worms . |
| 13 | He was a Maniak all right , flying colours , with a pair of sawn-off pumpguns crossed on his back , and a long braided pigtail whipping out like an epileptic snake from under his horned skidlid . |
| 14 | The ground does n't need to be perfectly smooth like a putting surface for a well-hit putt from off the edge of the green to finish very successfully . |
| 15 | Erm I I look forward to hearing Mr 's views on on this particular matter given that he was the or or the department was was responsible for for in a sense prolonging the discussion to consider the breakdown of locations and as to whether he feels that there is sufficient technical information available on all of the sectors should a recommendation come forward for a particular sector from from the panel . |
| 16 | Three First Division members of the management committee John Smith of Liverpool , Aston Villa 's Doug Ellis and Robert Chase of Norwich City — are known to favour Sandford as a new broom from outside football . |
| 17 | He accompanied his words with a defiant glare from beneath his brows and chewed at the corner of his lip . |
| 18 | She fixed him suddenly with a beady stare from beneath the crêpy lids . |
| 19 | He was left with a difficult shot from behind a bush and , although he made a brave effort , par was beyond him and Page 's three was enough for victory . |
| 20 | Both her parents had careers , and Liddie felt under a constant pressure from inside herself to prove herself to them . |
| 21 | The last time the writer heard of lead paint was in connection with an offensive toy from behind the Iron Curtain . |
| 22 | ‘ Next ! ’ she plainsonged and fixed me with an old-fashioned look from behind her lorgnette . |
| 23 | And no I did n't er stay around to find out who was calling him , suffice to say that it was er somebody from the Italian pizzeria from down the road . |
| 24 | If this file had been saved ( in plain text format ) as " predir " , you could initiate printer output redirection by issuing the command from the filter ( ) , or in the immediate mode from within BBCBASIC(Z80) . |
| 25 | O. affinis has been recorded from both sides of the North Atlantic ; in the western Atlantic from off Florida in 229–491 m and in the eastern Atlantic from the Bay of Biscay , off the Canaries and from the Josephina Bank with a bathymetric range of 1425–1935 m . |
| 26 | She had tried to put matters right in the proper manner from within the system , but that had n't worked , and she believed the Children 's Hearing system was at risk in Orkney . |
| 27 | You have first to appreciate that although wind will be flowing in a straight direction from behind the flyer , the kite is limited to a radius of action , horizontally and vertically . |
| 28 | Topline The back is firm and level , extending in a straight line from behind the withers to the croup . |
| 29 | Whatever lies Buddie chose to tell about it , she and Frankie would tell everyone the truth : that it came in a big parcel from across the sea in America . |
| 30 | There was in other words an immense amount of political activity with absolutely no result and the details of that already has been referred to in moving energy both erm in emergency number two , so I can make , need make no reference , more reference to it , but we have left ourselves surely , totally dependent in a short future from outside the country on our energy . |