Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I heard the footsteps … coming up fast= an echoing , slapping sound making me think of a great bird or bat flapping up from the bottom of a wall … |
| 2 | If a step or landing projects out from the earth bank , you 'll need to backfill with excavated material , and provide support with a wall |
| 3 | Any correspondence or filing left over from the morning shift should be dealt with . |
| 4 | Its tough pale grass grows on mud and clinker dredged up from the docks . |
| 5 | In the summer , athletics , cricket and tennis take over from the winter sports . |
| 6 | Attacked , promises General Powell , it will be — once its supply lines along the Euphrates valley have been severed and its men and equipment softened up from the air . |
| 7 | Add to this a language problem , surround the ship with smaller fishing vessels and throw liberal quantities of slimy mackerel underfoot , anchor it in a remote Scottish loch with vicious squalls of wind and rain roaring down from the surrounding hills , try working for days on end with very little sleep in these conditions and you have some idea of our difficulties . |
| 8 | But if you had an imminent on your side you could have had the ache of the wind and rain crying down from the clouds . ’ |
| 9 | This radical redistribution of the terms form and content follows logically from the principle of defamiliarization and perceptible form . |
| 10 | For a start , there was the fountain , about the height of a squat sundial , and crowned by a lily ; you turned on a tap , pumped energetically on a foot pedal for a minute or two , and water gushed pleasingly from the lily 's gaping mouth . |
| 11 | Related manufacturing industries such as food processing , chemicals and engineering suffered keenly from the ports ' decline and the surrounding areas endured massive job losses and an exodus of their people . |
| 12 | Confusion , despair , futility and hopelessness reached out from the darkest corners of Martin 's mind to engulf and possess him utterly . |
| 13 | Rooms gaped empty on the next landing , their doors gone for firewood , paper stripped and plaster crumbling away from the lath walls . |
| 14 | His mind and spirit wandered far from the crowd of contemporary detail . |
| 15 | Wegerle gave Rovers the lead in the 72nd minute when the Ipswich defence gave him time and space to drive home from the edge of the area . |
| 16 | As was typical of nineteenth and early twentieth century food retailing , foods were on open display on shop counters , in open windows and on the stalls outside , where food was exposed to the dirt and dust thrown up from the street . |
| 17 | A great cry compounded of rage , sorrow , hatred and vituperation went up from the town walls as the colourful company under the Plantagenet Leopards turned and rode back towards the castle , leaving the slight jerking figure to its dance of death . |
| 18 | Odd sounds of voices and activity came indistinctly from the distance . |
| 19 | Relying on his street knowledge rather than tracing the lineage of classical literature , Lemn 's strength lies in his love affair with language and ability to shoot straight from the lip . |