Example sentences of "of [noun] [adv prt] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a good idea to keep a couple of sacks of gravel over from the job , so you can fill ruts and top up bald patches as the drive wears and settles down . |
| 2 | He lifted a couple of mugs down from the shelf . |
| 3 | The longstanding drift of people to the south is now less important than the movement of population out from the cities to surrounding smaller towns and to rural areas . |
| 4 | The ne'er-do-wells and the many sightseers mixed with the army of law clerks carrying rolls of parchment up from the cellar known as Hell where , Sir John explained , the legal records were kept . |
| 5 | Finance Act 1981 ( now TA 1988 , s740 ) has not changed that fundamental point although charges can arise in respect of payments out from the trust to beneficiaries . |
| 6 | We can certainly prefer not carrying endless scuttles of coal up from the cellar . |
| 7 | Of course , you get a lot of dust in from the forest . |
| 8 | What I 'd really like , of course , is not to have to bother with lugging kilo bags of sugar and tins of weedkiller back from the town to stuff into electrical-conduit piping which Jamie the dwarf gets for me from the building contractor 's where he works in Porteneil . |
| 9 | He picked a newly constructed swatch of samples up from the desk in front of him and chucked it at Antinou , who caught the flopping thing one-handed and proceeded to fondle it familiarly . |
| 10 | There do exist ways of identifying the boundaries of stretches of discourse which set one chunk of discourse off from the rest . |