Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] from [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The heroes you have kind of linger on from a prior period when only a few records passed through your life , when you had the time to get fixated , spend weeks living inside a record . |
| 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 | The atmosphere , once through the little shop-door , cut down from a Victorian billiard-table , was oppressive . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Cut off from the outside world , the Spaniard needed an intimate social life and the interest it supplied to conversation . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If you find this difficult to understand , take any of your punchcards , and count up from the first pattern row to the number 1 in the margin . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They raise them to shoulder level , and back off from the small crowd . |
| 13 | Instead you manipulate the plots of the others to your own ends , playing one off against the others , letting them waste their energies in fruitless rivalries while you look on from a safe distance , waiting patiently for the moment to make your move , the day when I drop dead and you can come home and claim your own . |
| 14 | Ponds and lakes , too , benefit from their surroundings , as leaves and insects perish within them , and some nutrients run in from the surrounding land . |
| 15 | When you look down , when you are seeing it in on the television pictures , you look down from an aerial view . |
| 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 | And modern salinometers will automatically compensate for the temperature and pressure and do this conversion so you can get a direct read out from an electrical instrument of the salinity . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 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 | I get in from a dull lunch and find your urgent communication on my desk . |
| 25 | They set off from the same place but , like pieces of something that had just exploded , they each took a different course across the lawn . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Set back from the main road , the Lagant enjoys a centrally situated location , with all the village amenities within easy reach . |
| 28 | Set back from the main road , the Hotel Royal is located in a shady avenue about five minutes walk from a private sandy beach . |
| 29 | Set back from the main road , the Hotel Gabbiano is personally run with pride by the Mirandola family . |
| 30 | 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 . |