Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The driver got down from the cab and walked slowly down the platform and disappeared through a solid wooden door . |
| 2 | The administrator kept careful account of money laid out from the estate . |
| 3 | Barry 's Mum got up from the desk as they went into the waiting-room , and put her coat on . |
| 4 | Nineteen Cubans and Spaniards were allowed to disembark , plus three passengers with authentic visas ; the remaining 900 or so Jews waited for news of the negotiations which involved , variously , the Cuban President , his director of immigration , the shipping line , the local relief committee , the ship 's captain and a lawyer flown in from the New York headquarters of the Joint Distribution Committee . |
| 5 | The president got up from the chair and came round the table , his hand outstretched in the Western style . |
| 6 | As I crouched against the wall which offered some protection against the rain , the mortar team Corporal got up from the grass where he had been sitting and , crossing over to the small pile of H.E . |
| 7 | Its tough pale grass grows on mud and clinker dredged up from the docks . |
| 8 | Then this pantomime carried on from the coast . |
| 9 | Practice varies , and it is good practice to find out from the beginning in order to avoid unpleasant surprises at a later date . |
| 10 | As they were working , the smell of puris frying wafted over from the houses round the square . |
| 11 | He glanced back up at the house , where warm orange light spilled out from the dining room into the grey afternoon . |
| 12 | A professor came down from the university to investigate the project . |
| 13 | One evening Rosslyn 's horse came up from the paddock as usual for his dinner , but instead of practically knocking her over like he normally did in his enthusiasm to get at the food , he stopped quietly at her side and put his head in her hands , saying non-verbally : ‘ I hurt ! ’ |
| 14 | The evening light came through the skylights high overhead , glossing the scurfy backs , the sores , the scabby manes , and a soft echo came back from the walls of the vast , bare concrete building of animal content , feeding . |
| 15 | Nurse Rose had to exercise all her powers of concentration to sort out from the mumblings and digressions exactly what Mrs. Fanshawe wanted to say . |
| 16 | An unexpected bonus came up from the Uncle Ben 's food team whereby , regardless of the convection temperature , lkg of long grain dry rice cooked with 2.5 litres of water in 20 minutes on full power . |
| 17 | Again , the light level was subterranean , but there were no curtains so a fair amount of yellow light came in from the streetlamps outside . |
| 18 | Violence spilling over from the conflict in Croatia has escalated dramatically in recent weeks after the republic 's 1.9 million Muslims and 750,000 Croats voted overwhelmingly to secede from Serb-controlled remnants of Yugoslavia . |
| 19 | The eruption lasted between June and November of that year , and in those six months about eleven cubic kilometres of lava flowed out from the fissure , covering an area of nearly 600 square kilometres . |
| 20 | The blood poured out from the gash while he groaned and begged for water . |
| 21 | Great shafts of white after-rain light poured down from the edges of the clouds and soon the sun shone alone in a patch of blue , a weakening autumn sun . |
| 22 | Chatterjee told this idea to Bikash Sinha , Director of the Calcutta Cyclotron , during a car ride back from the springs in 1984 . |
| 23 | The figure stepped out from the porch and the light from the street lamp spilled on to its face . |
| 24 | And the wind drifting off from the island . |
| 25 | This research followed on from the success of code breaking techniques in World War 2 and the supposition that translation was simply a more complex coding of words . |
| 26 | The plates are not permanent : they are constantly being replenished by liquid rock gushing up from the Earth 's mantle ( the subsurface layer ) at the long submarine mountain ranges known as the mid-ocean ridges . |
| 27 | Led by Major Ronnie Tod , 30 men went ashore and had hardly been gone a few minutes when Dudley Clarke and the commander saw the dark outline of a boat coming in from the sea . |
| 28 | He stood silent beside the sofa , the black disc of the revolver trained on her , his face half in shadow from the harsh light shining down from the ceiling . |
| 29 | Elsewhere there are Breughels ; walls covered with Delft tiles ; a medieval belfry with 366 steps from which you can gaze down on the town 's steep , red tiled roofs ; holy blood brought back from the crusades . |
| 30 | A dipper flew up from the burn as I emerged from the hut , his white breast flashing as he darted downstream . |