Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] from [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ed Morrison allowed John Jeffrey to come in from an offside position and ‘ collect ’ a passing movement between two Japanese players while Hayashi was tackled without the ball when a try seemed certain for Japan . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He needed to come down from a greater height than most . |
| 5 | Another type of chart helps parents begin to stand back from the emotional reactions they have and see what is happening with their child . |
| 6 | Only by trying to stand back from the daily grind and reviewing one 's long term goals can such opposition be slowly undermined . |
| 7 | The latter allows both parties a chance to stand back from the daily routine and take a harder look at overall performance . |
| 8 | Even in daylight it had a sombre , suspicious air as if it wished to slink back from the adjoining houses . |
| 9 | Witney Town turned in an excellent performance to come back from a two goal deficit to snatch a point against mid-table Yate . |
| 10 | The hope among many is that Lamont , or as looks increasingly unlikely , his successor , will be able to pull back from the second rise when he comes to the December 1994 Budget . |
| 11 | Also , the jets of material associated with them seem certainly to shoot out from the rotational poles and to keep travelling that way ; were new planets to engage in the game of cosmic billiards they would have to shoot out equatorially from their ‘ parents ’ . |
| 12 | It would be great to bounce back from a temporary aberration and get into the Third Division . |
| 13 | In Britain you could not do better than to pick out from the varied products of the author John Wainwright , an ex-policeman , those of his books that are in the police procedural mode . |
| 14 | Everybody in the house loved to move in the warmth and luxury of it , to look out from the bright room at the rain spilling steadily down between the trees . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | We could get a limousine at the Beverley Hills hotel but you could n't get a taxi , so everyone learned how to call down from the front desk and order whatever they needed out of necessity . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Saussure , third on Mont Blanc , had to turn back from a surveying expedition when his 17 guides mutinied , throwing his food down the mountain ! |
| 20 | After your second or third mortgage , you may feel ready to branch out from the standard endowment or repayment mortgage . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | To turn around from the forward stance to face in the opposite direction , adopt the standard forward stance , and then move the right foot about half a shoulder 's width to the left , pivoting on the left foot and maintaining balance . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Their value for the reader lies in enlarging or changing our perceptions , in helping us to break out from a deadening routine ; in short , the carnivalesque : ‘ The prophets of extremity put up a distorting mirror against our world — but one which properly attended to , can tell us something about that world , and about the possibilities of changing it , or changing ourselves . ’ |
| 25 | Has a lot to prove this term , after a poor season Has to move on from the promising youngster stage . |
| 26 | At least for representing ideas , it is necessary to move on from the classical models to the semantic models because the required emphasis is on capability , expressiveness and abstraction . |
| 27 | There are so many historical sights to take in from the ancient temples , the Valley of the Kings on the West Bank to the High Dam at Aswan . |
| 28 | The industry 's expansion is the result of the IDA 's efforts to create a new industry to take over from the ailing assembly , light manufacturing , and textile industries that started Ireland 's industrialisation in the early 1950s . |
| 29 | Bath 's No.8 is the favourite to take over from the British Lion after Leicester confirmed yesterday that Richards would miss the rest of the season . |
| 30 | The group around Harry Pollitt and Palme Dutt was able to take over from the older leaders , Inkpin , Bell , and MacManus and to commit the Party to the new tactic of the " United Front from Below " . |