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

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1 I went down from the upper grandstand as fast as I could , which was far too slowly because everyone else was doing the same thing .
2 Rocks rained down from the White Spider above as he belayed Kartoffel across the ice .
3 The ceremony was in the hands of Mr Alexander Dubcek , who came in from the political cold less than 24 hours before , to be elected head of the new-style Federal Assembly .
4 He knew that Garvey 's eyes could see nothing , coming in from the relative lightness outdoors .
5 An American military advisory group should be established formally , taking over from the provisional group already in existence .
6 Libya barricaded itself off from the outside world yesterday to ‘ mourn ’ the sixth anniversary of the American air raids on Tripoli and Benghazi , mounted in retaliation for alleged Libyan involvement in the bombing of a Berlin night club in which two American soldiers died .
7 Few now want to follow Philadelphia 's lead and cut museums off from the public purse altogether — a policy that would surely up-end the Met 's unrivalled success at striking the right balance between showbiz and the unworldly .
8 The nervous voice floated up from the damp gloom below .
9 The heroes you have kind of linger on from a prior period when only a few records passed through your life , when you had the time to get fixated , spend weeks living inside a record .
10 something to be dropped on from a great height as frequently as possible er particularly if it 's the G L C. In the United States , however much the federal government is irritated by the state government , it can not attack its constitutional powers nor can it undermine its financial base so that 's a different relationship , it 's a relationship based , not on dominance , but on partnership and there has to be an understanding , a trade off between federal and er a and state government .
11 Australia 's defeats at Swansea and Llanelli , and only four tries in five matches in Wales , have given new hope to home players and fans only 12 months on from the 38–3 record home defeat at the hands of the Wallabies .
12 The hall was packed with people ; music spilled out from the main hall beyond ; pipes and fiddles , tabors and accordions , guitars and a piano , several of them playing the same tune .
13 ( The battalion got back from a six-month tour there in April — our second Caribbean posting in nine years . )
14 She had drawn back from a direct confrontation again , Guy realised .
15 But he came a long way round from a long way back , and O'Brien , by no means a habitual blamer of jockeys , is still convinced they should have won .
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