Example sentences of "[adv prt] from [art] [adj] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two streams come down from a hilly hinterland and after a sedate infancy suddenly leap in a happy frolic through verdant surroundings to reach the village where they converge as the River Greta . |
| 2 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 3 | Rincewind felt the familiar sticky prickling in the scalp that indicated the build-up of a heavy charge of raw enchantment in the vicinity , and so he was not utterly amazed when , a few seconds later , a shaft of vivid octarine light speared down from the invisible ceiling and focused , crackling , in the centre of the circle . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She swung herself down from the back door and went round to the front steps of the kiosk . |
| 6 | The man who had shown me in reached a pewter tankard down from the Welsh dresser and filled it with champagne . |
| 7 | Mike Robinson looked down from the top bunk and saw Swain standing there . |
| 8 | Dot slid down from the high bed and sat on the carpet and looked at a wooden dolls ' house , a painted rocking horse , but she did n't touch . |
| 9 | Schaffer stepped down from the railed entranceway and watched them going . |
| 10 | I get in from a dull lunch and find your urgent communication on my desk . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | After the neighbours and the dinner and the Queen 's speech , depression would set in from the rich food and the gins and tonics . |
| 13 | Sacks of corn were piled loosely against a wall ; three sheep had wandered in from the nearby pasture and had not been expelled ; there was a rank smell from underfoot . |
| 14 | Creggan was watching the group of people coming along from the other direction and making a lot of noise . |
| 15 | Macmillan , the publisher , had a quantity of ‘ sheets ’ left over from the first printing and shipped them over to Appleton & Co. , the American publishers . |
| 16 | There it will take over from the defective gene and form the right combination to allow fluids to leave the cells normally instead of collecting into a mucous . |
| 17 | For two days after their conversation Ruth did not see the woman , and then on the third day a man leaned over from the upper deck and called out to her . |
| 18 | Or Jagger would come over from the next hotel and we 'd have late night ‘ looning ’ sessions , and then Angie and I would go off again with Zowie . |
| 19 | Doyle had taken over from an unsuccessful coach and in no time had turned everything round . |
| 20 | Today , although virtually cut off from the outside world and still subject to army harassment , the community remains determined to stay put . |
| 21 | I hope , like Zen , that it gives people the feeling that they need not be cut off from the great intellectual and philosophical questions . |
| 22 | I shut myself off from the female race and channelled all my energy into my work . |
| 23 | They are closed in the sense that the black child is cut off from the black community and all interaction takes place within a white social structure . |
| 24 | The engine leapt , shouted , and was tamed , and in less than a minute we had taken off from the little beach and were circling the island . |
| 25 | On the one hand we can see it as a master stroke of the Devil : Christians and humans everywhere have been forced into private enclaves cut off from the public world and each other . |
| 26 | He stood off from the left-hand window and kicked the big bottom pane , pulling his foot back before it interrupted the fall of glass , then kicked again to clear the residue . |
| 27 | But there are two other prices where you can sell up from a full page and that 's that pre a premium slot like you see there and the chemist there will have paid twelve hundred pound . |
| 28 | In 1963 Takayanagi proposed models for polymers containing separate phases and carried out experimental studies on composites made up from a hard polymer and a soft rubber . |
| 29 | These plants bring nutrients up from the deeper soil and improve its structure making it very rich in trace minerals . |
| 30 | This means that bilingual education must be focused on from an early age and given a high profile throughout the school system . |