Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] from the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joseph rode slowly from the southern end of the camp , with five warriors walking beside him and leaning against his horse 's flanks . |
| 2 | There is Israeli ‘ absentee ’ legislation and there are land expropriation laws passed on from the British mandate . |
| 3 | They were awarded damages for this loss of ordinary business which arose naturally from the late delivery . |
| 4 | There was a second figure , which they did n't see : high above them , Timothy Gedge gazed down from the cliff-top path . |
| 5 | The bundle she had disturbed eddied a few inches into the deeper water and as Wexford watched , a thin pale hand , lifeless as the agate-veined stones , rose slowly from the sodden cloth , its fingers hanging yet pointing towards him . |
| 6 | The horse pounded surefooted along the tunnels , leaping sudden slides of rubble and adroitly sidestepping huge stones as they thundered down from the straining roof . |
| 7 | He rubbed his eyes and peered down from the top bunk . |
| 8 | Parts of the rudder which sank away from the main hull corroded as could be expected , so the answer must lie with the hull itself . |
| 9 | So it was that the most innovative proposal in the Criminal Justice Bill presented to Parliament on 10 November 1971 stemmed not from the Tory manifesto , nor from Crime Has No Boundaries , but from an official committee chaired by a Labour life-peer . |
| 10 | It headed away from the distant airport building , a single-storey edifice , away from the main road to Rovaniemi , heading east cross-country into the wilderness . |
| 11 | As the car moved away from the Elizabethan pile Marler glanced in his wing mirror . |
| 12 | He moved away from the strange man , anxious to leave quickly . |
| 13 | They then moved away from the main circuit , onto a piece of rough ground for the ‘ Formula Finesse Auto Test ’ . |
| 14 | ANDREW put down his binoculars and moved away from the grey lace that hung from the curve of the curtain-wire in front of his window . |
| 15 | This move stemmed largely from the perceived success of the police in Britain and India . |
| 16 | now she has an iris mountain , with Sir Cedric 's and the many more she grew from seed brought back from America , fenced off from the main garden in her ‘ Stalag 13 look ’ . |
| 17 | Although it is doubtful that throughout the middle ages masters and servants ate at the same table , above and below the salt , as the Victorians supposed , the Gothic hall , entered directly from the outside world and accommodating every social rank , symbolized their ideal of social integration . |
| 18 | Yet Lankester often ignored this warning in his own work , and suggested that all forms of life can be ranked into grades defined by the point at which they branched off from the main line of progress towards humankind . |
| 19 | This stemmed partly from the plain fact that the Plantagenet king-duke owed homage to the Capetian crown for his south-western French possessions . |
| 20 | A blast of warm foetid air rose up from the precipitous staircase to greet us . |
| 21 | Within the broad overall picture , built up from the 129 Prison Department establishments in England and Wales , Maidstone occupies a distinctive and significant place . |
| 22 | He was magnificent in doing his job and never surrendering , or even looking like surrendering the lead he built up from the green light . |
| 23 | Cleo staggered back from the loving assault being bestowed upon her by the two larger animals . |
| 24 | He pressed , just hard enough , and drew back from the falling man . |
| 25 | The other passengers drew back from the dishevelled river dwellers , so far out of their element . |
| 26 | A figure moved across from the dark corner in which he had been having an earnest conversation with a black boy , and sat down next to her . |
| 27 | Every poor family that moved there from the crowded east of Brazil was to have about 100 ha and a small house . |
| 28 | In Lipari , take home dessert wines , a white pumice stone from the beach and locally made jewellery created either from the red coral which grows offshore or from obsidian , the dark red and black volcanic glass which makes the beaches sparkle wonderfully . |
| 29 | We taxied away from the palm-thatched hut that was proudly styled as Straker 's Cay Airport Terminal Number One . |
| 30 | She stalked away from the front door and it closed softly behind him . |