Example sentences of "[subord] they [verb] [adv prt] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could not open the door , so they climbed down from the roof and got in through the window . |
| 2 | Those who win money on the horses at Kirkby Lonsdale races in Cumbria can quickly sober up if they wander down from the racecourse to see how their rates have been spent on the adjacent reaches of the river Lune , where the recently cemented banks are dramatically caving in , and attempts at bank protection appear to have made matters worse . |
| 3 | The Sunday after they came back from the West Indies , he and Sara and his mother — who was living with them now in a room not much larger than a cupboard , although the view , as Simon constantly said , was staggering — went formally to lunch in their old house . |
| 4 | When they drove out from the castle , Johnson found little in Dunbui 's yellow rock to engage his attention , other than the remarkable fact that the Guillemot , known locally as the Coot , while as small as a duck , lays eggs as large as those of a goose . |
| 5 | ‘ When they came back from the segregation unit they would thank us for getting the chance to get their heads together . ’ |
| 6 | George MacDonald saw the people from Strathnaver arriving at the sea : ‘ When they came down from the Strath to the sea-shore they suffered very much from want of houses . |
| 7 | Thousands of imported sheep had left their devastating mark and the latest ‘ crop ’ , the deer , finished off any saplings the sheep might have missed when they came down from the high tops in the winter . |
| 8 | Although the skirt panels look perfectly flat when seen on air , in reality they follow varying angles to the original base vertical planes , bending ever so slightly as they rise up from the fender section to join up at the midriff . |
| 9 | Sophie had given Pascoe the bare details as they ran back from the restaurant ; now she told the rest . |
| 10 | It was noon before they had completed the morning 's tasks , and as they came out from the buildings to go across to the house , the snow had ceased to fall . |
| 11 | I joined a party to climb down the great west cliffs to the boulder scree of Carn Mør , where we stayed until darkness fell and listened to the calls of Manx shearwater , Leach 's and storm petrels as they came in from the ocean to feed their young , hidden deep under the boulders . |
| 12 | As soon as they came in from the fishing , John — Augustus left Robinson and his potboy to take the tackle and the satisfactory number of dead char back to the inn while he went over to Hause Point . |
| 13 | He was waiting for them with his barge by the first footbridge over the canal as they came down from the moor . |
| 14 | They finished their drinks and as they got up from the table Fernando plucked a sprig of jasmine from the pergola . |
| 15 | The horse pounded surefooted along the tunnels , leaping sudden slides of rubble and adroitly sidestepping huge stones as they thundered down from the straining roof . |
| 16 | They made a gallant array next morning as they marched off from the Burgh Muir in great companies , cavalry and infantry , banners and standards waving , heraldic surcoats colourful , armour glinting in the early morning sunlight , trumpets blowing ; but Ramsay reminded himself that Mar 's army had looked fully as fine and had marched only to disaster . |