Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not take his readers back into history so much as bring Thomas Paine , William Hazlitt , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Sir Walter Scott [ qq.v. ] , and others forward , as if they had suddenly walked in from the street . |
| 2 | The charge is let in or out of each capacitor by its own switch but the charge continually drains away so it needs to be constantly topped up from the mains or battery . |
| 3 | In fact , I 've just flown back from the States today , and you 'll be glad to hear that the doctors assured me that Liz and Owen are on the road to a full recovery . ’ |
| 4 | Well it was if it 's only just come through from the fryer |
| 5 | ‘ These have just come through from the printers . ’ |
| 6 | A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time . |
| 7 | It was quite soon after the terrible motor accident that had crippled him for life , and she had just come in from the garden with a bunch of flowers for him . |
| 8 | ‘ This report has just come in from the Environments Officer . |
| 9 | Then , when the horse is brought out of the stable , instead of just walking quietly along ( which it would if it had just come in from the paddock ) , it is jumping out of its skin , ready to spook and shy at anything , nostrils dilated , eyes bulging , and tail hoisted high . |
| 10 | I 'm not being rude now , I 've just come back from the Gambia and I have n't stopped |
| 11 | ‘ I 've just come back from the Thomas Garlands ’ place , sir . ’ |
| 12 | There is a dusting of snow in Cwm Glas Mawr and above , while clouds have just rolled back from the summit ridge . |
| 13 | To Sulentic 's surprise , he has also found that the connection can be traced right into the central nucleus of NGC 43 19 — very much as we might expect if , as Arp has often suggested , high redshift objects are somehow shot out from the centres of otherwise normal galaxies . |
| 14 | A.Q. : Towards five-thirty this morning , having just got back from the flower market , I was working in the front quarters of my shop when I got the idea I 'd heard a funny noise just outside the window … |
| 15 | Hello er , I 'm phoning on behalf of Mrs Ada er she 's got to come in for a scan on the fourth of February , nine o'clock , now we 've only just got back from the hospital today , cos she oh , she had to go today for one , yeah , and we 've just |
| 16 | Blue watchers are saying that IBM chief John Akers will be out by March or April and that the company in its infinite wisdom will give the job to one of those retired IBMers it just just brought back from the pasture , probably Kaspar Cassoni . |
| 17 | They 'll probably be in all night and she 's just walked up from the bingo and toddle in there . |
| 18 | The longer stretch which contains the Creole part of the turn , beginning with " I did n't mind " and ending " but to dance " — disrupts this pattern and is thus set off from the rest of the turn . |
| 19 | So , for the very poor the home is primarily a means by which those largely cut off from the rest of society can shelter from further threats and attacks . |
| 20 | Fortunately , many of them know that their relatives and friends will be calling in to see them from time to time ; but ‘ from time to time ’ does not take care of those long days and nights in between , when , apart from their often desperate need for company , they feel frighteningly cut off from the world of people who would come to their aid at once if they fell ill , if only they had the means of contacting them . |
| 21 | Panama remained physically cut off from the rest of the world yesterday , with the national airport closed and under US control , and the northern border with Costa Rica sealed . |
| 22 | And then she saw to her amazement that the man who had just climbed down from the cab was knocking on her door . |
| 23 | Corporatists share with pluralists a belief that the basic building blocks of the polity and the political process are groups formed around interests and that these have somehow taken over from the significance of representation through elections , parties and parliaments . |
| 24 | ‘ O Jesus Christ , ’ he said , looking over my shoulder as if JC had just wandered in from the garden , ‘ did you die for this boy ? ’ |
| 25 | So it thus came about that the fields , meadows , pastures and arable acres of Combsburgh were finally taken in from the waste which had existed for millenia . |
| 26 | TAFF Gregory , the Army cook who won a Gulf War BEM ( Eating Out August 14 ) , has quickly marched on from the Hartforth Hall Hotel at Gilling West , near Richmond . |
| 27 | The competitors were in various categories for judging and were to be judged by professionals specially flown in from the States . |
| 28 | In newborn babies , the infection is usually picked up from the mother 's vagina during birth . |
| 29 | I 'd been yo-yoing up and down a rollercoaster for the best part of an hour and I was still hung over from the phial of ‘ Renshenfengwangjiang ’ — a potent blend of panax ginseng and royal bee jelly — that Michael Willis had persuaded me to drink for breakfast . |
| 30 | for example , in Oxfordshire the statutory Education Committee was mainly composed of old-style landed Tories , but with a mixture of keen Trades Unionist members from Cowley , and some ‘ intellectuals ’ deliberately invited in from the university . |