Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv prt] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steps led up from the stone paving to a wide veranda , which was adorned with hanging plants and tubs full of flowers . |
| 2 | The eyes gazed out from the screen . |
| 3 | This may sound harsh , but it seems to me that when we lost our empire our eyes came down from the horizon and looked at our feet . |
| 4 | The lads came up from the gill with buckets of water and stood a-row along the brink . |
| 5 | A door opened and a light so bright and sudden it hurt their eyes spilled through from the back . |
| 6 | Then one of the travelling craftsmen came out from the town and lined the cart , trap or wagon we happened to be making : that means he painted the finishing touches , the lines on the wheels and the panels . |
| 7 | Behind him , two men in long overcoats stepped out from the shadow of a doorway and watched the young man turn to the left again , heading up the main backstreet that led to Joseph Hyde 's flat . |
| 8 | Ashley 's eyes drifted down from the screen and she frowned . |
| 9 | A row of yellow , baleful eyes looked down from the darkness among the rafters . |
| 10 | All their trumpets tilted up from the ground , as if together they were sounding a blast to the sky . |
| 11 | Clapping their wings the gulls came back from the sea , |
| 12 | We had to halt as cartloads of bones dug up from the cemetery were taken down Paternoster Row to the charnel house . |
| 13 | A raised wooden runway , carpeted with the pin-sharp points of six-inch nails hammered through from the bottom , ran out 50ft and ended in a bed of nails laid on the grass . |
| 14 | She says her neighbour 's garden , always is a mystery here , her neighbour 's garden has been attacked by some kind of animal , she thinks nocturnal , there are small areas dug up from the garden , they are about three to four inches in diameter and about the same in depth , so it 's , it 's , it 's a little hole rather than the end of a tunnel it seems . |
| 15 | Sparks flew up from the pavement only a fraction of an inch from his father 's head . |
| 16 | The cemetery had emptied of people , the cold winds swept in from the sea and the still bare branches of the trees shivered like thin fingers against the dark sky . |
| 17 | On my right , across the river , steep forested banks rose up from the water . |
| 18 | To go through all her husband 's personal belongings sent back from the hospital where he died . |
| 19 | There we discovered the £7.50 hamburger meal , flower-selling girls with Chanel handbags and wealthy exhibitionists who apparently enjoyed being part of a human zoo , preening themselves on their extravagant yachts while the hoi-polloi stared up from the quayside . |
| 20 | When the noise died down a signal gun was fired and five boats pushed off from the shore and began the race . |
| 21 | Beyond her kitchen window , crocuses sprouted up from the grass , bright as doubloons , orange and heliotrope . |
| 22 | Huge space-age lights came down from the ceiling to flash in time to the thudding pulse of the music . |
| 23 | A smell of bacon and eggs wafted up from the kitchen . |
| 24 | Most of the owners came down from the Clubhouse to watch the saddling of the runners in the Jockey Club Race Train Stakes , and all the sportier of them wore the rosettes . |
| 25 | I just do not know what aircraft this was , I had never seen such a type before , but he made a very cautious circuit and then to my amazement an approach to land despite the red Very lights pooped off from the control tower . |
| 26 | The people of my constituency are appalled that Monmouth borough council has millions of pounds tied up from the sale of council houses and can not use that money for housing . |
| 27 | The dots represent the angles at which pigeons flew off from the release site : the direction home is straight up ; straight down represents 180° away from home . |
| 28 | A barricade of flagstones prised up from the floor had been erected for a final stand and the Collector , snatching a moment to look back towards it , was dismayed to see that the other party was already behind it , thus leaving himself and his men exposed on the flank . |
| 29 | Horns rang out from the city wall . |
| 30 | Since the prints of Henry VIII were consigned to the flames at Ealing Studios , it 's not possible to assess what merits Barker 's production may have had , but some idea of the uncinematic monstrosity that was produced is suggested by a contemporary production of Richard III , which consists of 17 scenes played out from the stage to a static camera , interrupted by lengthy titles containing brief pieces of dialogue . |