Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] from the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Oxford , at 34 , with coach Pat Sweeney urging them on from the Oxford launch , began to assert their full power off Duke 's Meadows , drawing ahead while Cambridge , at 35 , began to look vulnerable .
2 He heaved himself up from the kitchen chair and reached for his coat behind the door .
3 Today your American Tours motorcoach will pick you up from the hotel lobby at 8am .
4 After Rosenthal 's double strike , Boro 's Jimmy Phillips pulled one back from the penalty spot after an acrobatic dive from John Hendrie but Steve McManaman restored the advantage with a thumping drive .
5 But typewriters we had problems with because , if they went in for repair , you never got them back from the Ordinance Core , and so at one place in Tunbridge Wells we handed a typewriter in and because the army were allowed to buy greaseproof paper , we bought a lot of greaseproof paper which came in the package of a new typewriter .
6 But she had already felt the tremor of unstable ground beneath her feet and , throwing herself back from the danger zone , she was in time to prevent herself falling into the stream .
7 He glanced right and saw another half-dozen Dragoons racing to cut him off from the cart track .
8 In fact , Hyacinth was thinking about Wullie Robertson who , to her great surprise , had said he would pick her up from the Hospitality Inn after dinner , and take her on to the Young Conservatives Ball .
9 Take this mutinous dog , hang him up from the yard arm , stripe him with the cat , douse him with salt , and when he comes to , flog him some more . ’
10 Marlon had been embarrassed by his mum coming to pick him up from the school disco .
11 She had called him up from the bus station as soon as she got into the City .
12 When Kendall snapped him up from the Anfield out-tray 16 months ago for £1m , everybody said what a bargain he had bought .
13 Track it down from the root directory of drive C by typing : DIR WHATPC.BAT /S
14 Well just , just a final point , would it be worthwhile er informing the District Council of the history of the site , Chairman , because they may not be aware , as the , as the new owners of the site , they took it over from the Southwell District Council on reorganization .
15 Revenue from normal trading fell , but the club made it up from the transfer market .
16 If the letter had been burnt in the presence of all the members of the family immediately after being read , then the copy could only have been sent to him before they received it , by the person who went to pick it up from the rubbish skip .
17 Mind you , she had the decency to come and confess , and I got it back from the bus company .
18 She waited to see if McGee would make it back from the drawing room then , fearful lest he should have to ring a second time , she opened the door .
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