Example sentences of "[adv prt] from [art] [adj] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The car drew to a halt by a green sward of carefully tended lawn which ran down from an impressive-looking office building towards the river .
2 The Pit derives its name from the steep galley down from an old tin mine , which the Badlands surfers must negotiate to reach the beach below .
3 Opposite the clock , angels and bishops stare moodily down from the Holy Trinity Column in what is now the middle of Red Army Square .
4 The kitchen is thus three steps down from the living-room floor level and is paved with the same material — York stone slabs approximately 60mm ( 2–1/2in ) thick , below which a low-pressure piped hot water central-heating system is installed .
5 The chamber is then flooded from below with 3375 litres ( 750gal ) of dip , which is pumped in from a nearby vacuum tanker .
6 Boyd took the ball in from the one yard line to reduce the Tornadoes lead to one point .
7 Before Chas could reply , Ace burst in from the main access corridor .
8 She could tell she was going to get no response from Coffin , although he was being polite , when a crowd of youngsters swarmed in from the local youth club .
9 Jones also made the try with a perfect chip through from a five metre scrum .
10 To bring information , the messenger : " I 'm getting a message through from an alien life form . "
11 ‘ We need to face the frustrations left over from the second world war ’ , he says .
12 Yes I put out an appeal to er my readers to search their attics and their er lofts and their garden sheds for all the things they might have left over from the second World War .
13 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 .
14 Sadat had ordered photographs of the Shah , left over from an earlier state visit , to be mounted along the route .
15 Breaking off from a hectic touring schedule in Scotland , Melanie and Olly slip across to Ireland to play one date here at Festival .
16 A promotion-chasing football team has taken the day off from a hectic training schedule to record a pop song .
17 They took off from the amphibious assault ship U S S Okinowa on a routine patrol , but a short while later , all voice and radar contact was suddenly lost .
18 Her insistence on setting up lone stations cut off from the central missionary settlement led her into conflict with the authorities , who often thwarted her persistent applications to go further ‘ up-country ’ .
19 The EF1-11 radar jamming plane had taken off from the Upper Heyford airbase .
20 NEXT Thursday ( 21 February ) , an Ariane rocket lifts off from the European Space Centre in French Guiana to put the second Astra satellite into orbit at 19° East .
21 ‘ After the quarantine period 's over , ’ he went on , with an air of simplifying an impossibly complex process , ‘ the containers are transferred into the decanning cave through a series of sub-ponds leading off from the main storage pond .
22 Starting off from the old town hall in the middle of the High Street he made his way slowly down the road as far as the Black Bull pub , accompanied by Mr Tim Devlin , who holds the Stockton South with a slender 774 majority , and his wife Carol .
23 Philip Swallow finds the VC 's memorandum , its envelope still unopened , at the bottom of his In-tray , trapped between the pages of a brochure for Bargain Winter Breaks in Belgium which he had picked up from a local travel agency some weeks ago .
24 A colonic mucosal biopsy obtained at endoscopic follow up from a non-inflammatory bowel disease patient with a colonic polyp was also positive for M paratuberculosis .
25 You approach it along the narrowest road which creeps warily on the side of a steep chalk plateau , one step up from the flat farm land which , after a mile or so , tumbles to West Fleet and over Chesil Beach into the sea .
26 If you find this difficult to understand , take any of your punchcards , and count up from the first pattern row to the number 1 in the margin .
27 Fergus tried to lever himself up from the rear bench seat of the old Rover , but failed .
28 Items of clothing dry , hanging up from the central light fitting on the ceiling .
29 By 1918 these fears had reached fever pitch ; one Conservative MP recalled that his family had expected that the end of the war would be followed by atrocities like those in Russia , that " families like ours would be strung up from the nearest lamp post " ; Robert Sanders was surprised to see on Armistice Day that the crowds were actually cheering the King , so unlike the fate of the Russian royal family a few months earlier .
30 Instead , the mechanism inside the cylinder allows the ‘ primary ’ circuit to be filled up from the cold water supply to the hot water cylinder When it is full , a large air bubble prevents the two mixing — provided the water in the boiler circuit is never allowed to boil .
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