Example sentences of "[adv prt] [art] [noun sg] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coffin heard feet coming down the staircase from the upper floor of the house . |
| 2 | Through his tastes and his trials , his political naivety and optimism , McCarthy is led gently down the ramp from the awe-inspiring pedestal of the brilliant scientist to take his place in the milling crowd of common humanity . |
| 3 | Riven took a place halfway down the hall from the high seats where the lords clustered and the Lady Jinneth adorned her husband 's elbow . |
| 4 | Kisling was livid , and with the help of some friends managed to grab the sculptor and throw him down the stairwell from the seventh floor . |
| 5 | Adele , the younger of the two sisters although some privately reckoned that she looked a little drawn-in and slightly older than Angelica , was wiping down the flour from the big kitchen table as they came through the door . |
| 6 | The European Community has turned down a request from the British Government for nearly twenty-five million pounds to assist coal-mining regions affected by pit closures . |
| 7 | Hartlepool had no hesitation in turning down a bid from an unnamed Scottish Premier League club last week . |
| 8 | Antrobus considered archaeologists to be another kind of meddling vandal , and he had refused to let in a group from the British Association for the Advancement of Science that had included Lubbock and Pitt-Rivers , and who had wanted to excavate round the stones . |
| 9 | Sometimes you can bring in an expert from a local college or hospital to lead activities . |
| 10 | The first and more important reason is that he is likely to be transferred out of Bull within the next few months , along with other chief executives at state-owned companies , when the rightist coalition almost inevitably takes over the government from the Socialist Party after the legislative elections this month . |
| 11 | McCoist , who had taken over the captaincy from the injured Richard Gough , shrugged his shoulders and said : ‘ We 've grown used to all those injuries and learned to accept them . |
| 12 | The relationship between capitalist and non-capitalist modes is one of exploitation , in which the former creams off the surplus from the latter . |
| 13 | It had also lost around £300,000 pounds and was staving off a visit from the official receiver . |
| 14 | All yelped out in a voice that would wake the dead or summon up the devil from the deepest ring of hell . |
| 15 | They decided that , in addition to the traditional , and largely vain , efforts to curb drug production , there is an urgent need to step up the offensive from the other end of the drugs trail . |
| 16 | Christmas day itself was for sobering up and clearing up the debris from the wild night before , and after lunch the entire regiment was allowed ‘ quartier libre ’ or free time in town . |
| 17 | Norma had picked up the idea from a little woman in Brixton . |
| 18 | They drove up the ramp from the underground car park at Scotland Yard and out on to Victoria Street at 8.40 p.m . |
| 19 | Nesting for the first time in the delta since the 16th century , the flamingos had flown up the coast from the southern province of Malaga after finding their traditional nesting ground in the Fuente de Piedra lake had dried up after a prolonged drought . |
| 20 | The moth can hear the bat from a greater distance than the bat can pick up the echo from a flying moth ; to be precise , a moth can hear a bat about 100 feet away , whereas a bat can detect a moth at a range of less than 8 feet . |
| 21 | A block of stone being brought up the slide from an underground quarry at Herston . |
| 22 | Small back streets run higgledy-piggledy back up the hill from the golden , sandy beach and the main prom , and these contain a jumble of small bars , Spanish and seafood restaurants , Bodegas with wine barrels stretching from floor to ceiling , and wonderful shops selling leather , shoes and denim at remarkable prices . |
| 23 | He took a step towards her , and she bent swiftly and snatched up a stone from the flowerbed beside her . |
| 24 | Robert picked up a wineglass from the low table that stood between them and scratched with a fingernail at the dry stain on the bottom of the glass . |
| 25 | To help you draw up a shortlist from the dozens of good new varieties on offer , the accompanying table will help you choose the pick of the bunch . |
| 26 | Then he picked up a rock from the shallow water at the edge of the pool and threw it out into the middle , making a huge splash ; the rings of the splash spread nearly to the edge of the pool . |
| 27 | He took up an idea from a previous inventor , an Englishman named Charles Babbage , namely the punched card , but designed an electro-mechanical device called a tabulator to ‘ read ’ the information contained on the card . |
| 28 | When that time was up an envoy from the Iranian Embassy in Paris had been violently beaten up when he called at the shipowner 's apartment . |
| 29 | I think the real nitty gritty of this question is , given a T tumour can you pick out the good from the bad using this technique ? |
| 30 | The concept of the Created God completely rules out the exclusion from the Alternative Religion of any part whatsoever of humankind , whether it be by reason of race , colour , sex , or for any other reason at all which may create an identifiable group or individual . |