Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] from [art] [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 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The atmosphere , once through the little shop-door , cut down from a Victorian billiard-table , was oppressive . |
| 5 | At 11.15 a.m. the 29 enthusiastic players teed off from a few tees . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Cut off from the outside world , the Spaniard needed an intimate social life and the interest it supplied to conversation . |
| 10 | The two of us stand next to his second hole unable to distinguish sky and lake and cut off from the other pair . |
| 11 | The French soldiers , cut off from the other guests both linguistically and emotionally , spoke only amongst themselves , occasionally voluble , more often morose . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They raise them to shoulder level , and back off from the small crowd . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Ponds and lakes , too , benefit from their surroundings , as leaves and insects perish within them , and some nutrients run in from the surrounding land . |
| 21 | When you look down , when you are seeing it in on the television pictures , you look down from an aerial view . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | When the seeds drop off from the flowering spike , they should be left in the tank to float for a few days . |
| 24 | Modern skilifts run up from the alpine terrace to the Fronalpstock . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The Thief has to wear something which makes her stand out from the other Brownies . |
| 29 | As ever , the knack is to make yourself stand out from the corporate crowd . |
| 30 | The lines of the images stand out from the high quality Montval paper and are accompanied by a braille text . |