Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] from the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The capes are famous for a confused and ugly swell , and peculiar lumps of wind that crash down from the coastal peaks of the Taurus Mountains . |
| 2 | The coast ( or cliff-top ) walk from the hostel in the other direction led to the delightful settlement of Robin Hood 's Bay , where the slipway resembles a drawbridge let down from the towering sea walls . |
| 3 | When nuclear family segments break off from the joint family for one reason or another , the values of the joint family nevertheless continue to plague them . |
| 4 | Her insistence on setting up lone stations cut off from the central missionary settlement led her into conflict with the authorities , who often thwarted her persistent applications to go further ‘ up-country ’ . |
| 5 | When I remarked on this to the doctor 's wife , she explained that the town was under virtual siege , cut off from the central government . |
| 6 | Cut off from the outside world , the Spaniard needed an intimate social life and the interest it supplied to conversation . |
| 7 | The two of us stand next to his second hole unable to distinguish sky and lake and cut off from the other pair . |
| 8 | The French soldiers , cut off from the other guests both linguistically and emotionally , spoke only amongst themselves , occasionally voluble , more often morose . |
| 9 | High among the bright snows of the Crystal Mountain , cut off from the immediate claims and responsibilities of life in time in the twentieth century , Matthiessen experiences a joy at the heart of the created order to which he belongs , a oneness with it . |
| 10 | On the one hand we can see it as a master stroke of the Devil : Christians and humans everywhere have been forced into private enclaves cut off from the public world and each other . |
| 11 | Some local people also work close to the church , daily setting out their stalls of fruit , vegetables or fish in the narrow alleyways , the vicoli , which spread out from the tiny square , no more than a broadening of the road really , before the church . |
| 12 | Such was the self-image of Empire , which spread out from the public schools and into the public mind with the growth of the popular press and the introduction of compulsory primary education . |
| 13 | These branch off from the main artery , called the aorta , and then divide into lots of smaller branches which are all over the surface of the heart . |
| 14 | They raise them to shoulder level , and back off from the small crowd . |
| 15 | Ponds and lakes , too , benefit from their surroundings , as leaves and insects perish within them , and some nutrients run in from the surrounding land . |
| 16 | The first time I get on , it is often after spending a few hours with them , and I kinda transfer over from the stable door to their backs . ’ |
| 17 | When the seeds drop off from the flowering spike , they should be left in the tank to float for a few days . |
| 18 | Modern skilifts run up from the alpine terrace to the Fronalpstock . |
| 19 | They come in colours , open out from the doubled width and can be cut into stretchy lengths sufficient to wrap around the combined PP handle and line . |
| 20 | Somehow , though , Leith 's sensitivity picked up a strained atmosphere as she pulled her glance back from the stocky man who had taken it into his head to start walking over . |
| 21 | The Thief has to wear something which makes her stand out from the other Brownies . |
| 22 | As ever , the knack is to make yourself stand out from the corporate crowd . |
| 23 | The lines of the images stand out from the high quality Montval paper and are accompanied by a braille text . |
| 24 | Lay the curtains out flat and measure up from the creased hemline to mark the finished length of the curtains ( top edge ) with a row of tacking stitches across the width of the curtain . |
| 25 | Set back from the main road , the Lagant enjoys a centrally situated location , with all the village amenities within easy reach . |
| 26 | Set back from the main road , the Hotel Royal is located in a shady avenue about five minutes walk from a private sandy beach . |
| 27 | Set back from the main road , the Hotel Gabbiano is personally run with pride by the Mirandola family . |
| 28 | Bush Vark 's First Day Out by Charles Fuge ( MacMillan , £6.95 ) Winner of The Mother Goose Award and the MacMillan Prize 1988 Three pairs of creaturely eyes stare out from the deep black inside covers of Bush Vark 's First Day Out , whetting young appetites for nocturnal mystery and the pleasurable horrors encountered by Charles Fuge 's cheery little vark , with his slippery passivity and plain good fortune . |
| 29 | The surface of each of the dendrites which branch out from the neuronal cell body is covered with synapses — perhaps up to ten thousand in all — arising from the other neurons which thus make contact with them . |
| 30 | It 's to remind us that we sweep down from the upper world , slide round the bottom of the circle , and sweep up again , no trouble , if we have any sense . " |