Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] from [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er Madam Speaker , I I agree with er the honourable gentleman that it 's extremely important that the various agencies do play a part in working together to ensure effective action with minimum bureaucracy and I know that the honourable gentleman has been anxious to ensure that that happens in his own constituency and his own area where he is dealing with the problems of high unemployment er and the fall out from the closures of pits in his area and if the honourable gentleman has any specific er er measures which he would like us to look at then I 'd be very happy to consider those . |
| 2 | There was always that about him — the Welsh chieftain down from the hills on a raid to seize the bounty of the fat rich oppressor and then ride home back into the trackless labyrinths of his past . |
| 3 | The longstanding drift of people to the south is now less important than the movement of population out from the cities to surrounding smaller towns and to rural areas . |
| 4 | She sets out before the sun , driving a team of horses which pull her soft blue chariot up from the depths of the ocean , and shows her brother the way to rise . |
| 5 | Now Dr A. Noyan and colleagues from Hacettepe University in Ankara have discovered that the lymph nodes ( small swellings ) found at intervals along the lymph vessels act as tiny hearts , pumping lymph up from the extremities of the body towards the neck , where it enters the venous circulation ( Journal of Muscle Research and Ceil Motility , vol 4 , p 103 ) . |
| 6 | Deep rooted trees , notably the eucalyptus and acacias ( known in Australia as ‘ wattles ’ ) draw water up from the depths of the soil . |
| 7 | Analysing what racism does in our society means , first of all , claiming ‘ race ’ and racism back from the margins of British politics . |
| 8 | In short , Mansel was leading the argument back from the generalities of science to the particularities of individual destiny , which constitute the essence of religion . |
| 9 | She drew her right hand out from the folds of her apron and thrust a piece of paper at him , averting her eyes as she did so . |
| 10 | I 'll look at the cricket scores and pretend I 'm some old member in from the shires with a striped blazer and a pink gin in his fist . |
| 11 | Jack ‘ Kid ’ Berg , who grew up in the East End ghetto , fought his way up from the streets to a world welterweight title in the tradition of oppressed racial minorities . |
| 12 | The striping may make it difficult for a predator to select one animal out from the others in a tightly packed herd and equally difficult to judge distances between itself , its intended prey and the rest of the herd . |
| 13 | After a year out from the trials of the world of music on the Inner Hebrides , she has returned to rejoin John Casey aided by bassist Tony Waite . |
| 14 | Leaking wisps of smoke wormed their way out from the sides of the stoves ' doors , adding a pungent aroma of something like burning coal to the medley of smells produced by the man-high vats bubbling away on top of the bulging , flattened-looking stoves . |
| 15 | In total , including Turnham Green , it occupies 13,300 acres of mainly flat land on a gentle south-westerly slope down from the hills of Harrow and Highgate — from 36 feet to 15 feet above the ordnance survey datum — with a fine depth of approximately 40 feet of gravel and sand over London clay , topped by fine vegetable mould . |