Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] from the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is Israeli ‘ absentee ’ legislation and there are land expropriation laws passed on from the British mandate . |
| 2 | There was a second figure , which they did n't see : high above them , Timothy Gedge gazed down from the cliff-top path . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He rubbed his eyes and peered down from the top bunk . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A blast of warm foetid air rose up from the precipitous staircase to greet us . |
| 8 | Within the broad overall picture , built up from the 129 Prison Department establishments in England and Wales , Maidstone occupies a distinctive and significant place . |
| 9 | He was magnificent in doing his job and never surrendering , or even looking like surrendering the lead he built up from the green light . |
| 10 | Cleo staggered back from the loving assault being bestowed upon her by the two larger animals . |
| 11 | He pressed , just hard enough , and drew back from the falling man . |
| 12 | The other passengers drew back from the dishevelled river dwellers , so far out of their element . |
| 13 | She might have sat all afternoon , nibbling and stuporous , exhausted but not sleepy ; but the glazier finally came down from the upper floor , cheerfully announcing that all was now right and tight and he would be on his way . |
| 14 | My talk with Quintin had more content since he said that if another peer came down from the Upper House he would withdraw from public life whether he was in the Upper or Lower House . |
| 15 | The smells that came down from the higher ground might tell him something . |
| 16 | The ceremony was in the hands of Mr Alexander Dubcek , who came in from the political cold less than 24 hours before , to be elected head of the new-style Federal Assembly . |
| 17 | Grants came in from the Welsh Office , Welsh Tourist Board and the local authorities allowing the newly formed Brecon Mountain Railway Company to take on permanent staff for line construction and a stone-faced workshop ( in keeping with other buildings in the National Park ) built at Pontsticill . |
| 18 | A bright red Porsche came in from the wrong end , ignoring the arrows and signs . |
| 19 | It was Thursday 5 September and he was about to leave his office to drive to Bramshill Police College to begin a series of lectures to the Senior Command Course when the call came through from the private office . |
| 20 | Fearing a tragedy of epic proportions — her mind leapt at once to Penini and then to Miss Arabel — she knocked on the open door and Mr Browning came through from the other room , so haggard and drawn in contrast to his morning self that once more she was convinced something dreadful had happened . |
| 21 | Then , two minutes before the end of the game , the news came through from the other ground that Sunderland had lost . |
| 22 | The County Council took into account a wide range of considerations , in including the the information that came through from the local plan authorities , in the preparation of their local plans over the past ten years or more . |
| 23 | I do n't know how this happened , but er erm a piece of wood or something fell and hit him on the back of the neck and woke him up and he woke up from the vivid dream of being at the time of the French Revolution , of being lead up the guillotine and having his head chopped off . |
| 24 | When they went into their bedroom at night , cold air came up from the polished linoleum like air off an ice rink . |
| 25 | To their surprise several figures , Grant estimated about twenty , filed out from the dark treeline onto the overgrown verge and began to move towards them . |
| 26 | The portal was commissioned by Gaston IV , the then Count of Béarn , when he came back from the First Crusade . |
| 27 | The hall was packed with people ; music spilled out from the main hall beyond ; pipes and fiddles , tabors and accordions , guitars and a piano , several of them playing the same tune . |
| 28 | Also included are 2-metre-wide walkways on either side of the canal cantilevered out from the main trough . |
| 29 | Boxer came out from the nearby farmhouse carrying a bag of oats and waved . |
| 30 | She bounded upstairs , her bare feet silent on the cast-iron staircase , and pushed open one of the three identical wooden doors that led off from the galleried landing . |