Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] from the [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wounded who were carried in from the attack on the Rebecca lay in the shade under the trees while their hurts were being dressed . |
| 2 | Past Gèdre , the landscape reverts again to its harsher , more primeval mode , as you drive through what is known as the Chaos de Coumély , a wilderness of massive boulders that have rolled down from the mountain on the left . |
| 3 | The fragment of the Quimper dish she had picked up from the dustpan on the kitchen floor that day when she and Thérèse had seen , when she saw , when the lady had shown herself for the second time . |
| 4 | The fuselage has broken off behind the pilot 's seat , the propeller shaft and gearing , having fallen away from the engine on impact , lie nearby . |
| 5 | Where the road is curved away from the junction on both sides , very long and wide sight lines will be required . |
| 6 | Anyone who has visited a newspaper office in the last five years with expectations from cinematic memories of Citizen Kane or who has struggled back from the newsagent on a Sunday morning with a sample of what is laughably offered as a ‘ leisurely read ’ will know that much has changed . |
| 7 | There 's a couple more to be brought in from the pack on the horse . |
| 8 | The men on board the Firefly , a 25ft catamaran , had set off from the island on the return leg of the race when their craft began to ship water and threatened to founder . |
| 9 | A rule can never be appreciated apart from the reasons on which it is founded " . |
| 10 | The Triptych of the Descent from the Cross shows Christ being taken down from the cross on the central panel . |
| 11 | So far the French had been fired on from the field on their left , now they would see an officer on the right of their advance . |
| 12 | Besides these photographs were Pedro 's polo helmet , which now had a map of the Malvinas stamped on the front ( which Angel always wore in matches ) , and a jar of earth he 'd dug up from the Islands on the day he 'd been sent home as a prisoner of war . |
| 13 | Launched successfully from the US on 26 January , IRAS last week began its systematic mapping of the whole sky across a range of infrared wavelengths . |
| 14 | Keith Miller , prosecuting , said Mr Wray had returned home from the pub on a Sunday afternoon and approached Youngs ' friend to discuss a damaged fence . |
| 15 | It must be admitted that the famous mould may well have strayed upstairs from the cultures on the floor below , and is perhaps to be included in the long list of profitable discoveries which arose from a lapse in maintaining the highest standards of laboratory practice . |