Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] [adv prt] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | K. R. One night we had a strange sergeant in from the South End of the city who was filling in for our missing sergeant . |
| 2 | This week , they play three nights at London 's Town & Country Club , which is n't bad , but it 's a high step down from the dizzy heights of packing out Wembley for several shows on the trot as they did five years ago when they were one of the biggest bands in Europe . |
| 3 | ‘ I had a warm tyre on from the beginning and was delighted to be in the lead at York Corner , Portstewart . |
| 4 | They represent a viable spin off from the THORP project control and instrumentation activities . ’ |
| 5 | By the time that Baldwin again met the TUC representatives , at 9 p.m. , he was , by the will of the Cabinet , a long way back from the position of the previous night , and embarrassed by the movement . |
| 6 | Within they are generally planned on a narrow rectangular site , extending a long way back from the road . |
| 7 | and part of that is it 's a long walk back from the |
| 8 | It is a curious turn around from the days when bondholders pleased to be bought out and were driving to drawing lots ! |
| 9 | A beautiful cross in from the left , a dummy by Speed , leaving Wallace to volley home . |
| 10 | Ms Stephens ( 31 ) , a journalist from west London , looked healthy but tired after a gruelling journey back from the Himalayas which began on Thursday with a five-hour march from the base of Everest to Pheriche , the nearest town accessible by helicopter . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's obviously a big step up from the Northern League to the Third Division , so I 'm building up my fitness in the reserves . |
| 12 | And as the all-too-solid original took a single step out from the doorway he dropped the loop of wire over its head and , like a man straining to start an outboard motor , suddenly hauled it tight for all he was worth . |
| 13 | Well you sh you 're supposed to ride a fair way out from the gutter , never in the gutter so they can see you round the bends . |
| 14 | A few of the men had taken a rare day off from the quarries and the recognitions were more generous than Harrison had anticipated . |
| 15 | Hibs reaction to the proposals is still far from clear , but , with a new report out from the council soon the time is coming for decisions to be taken . |
| 16 | ‘ Why do you bring a dead body back from the grave ? ’ |
| 17 | It is an easy walk down from the church of Sauveterre to the riverside , where the stump of the old fortified bridge still stands , starting hopefully out from one bank but no longer reaching to the other — a disappointed bridge , to borrow James Joyce 's perfect description of a seaside pier . |
| 18 | Attempts throughout the day to coax an escaped owl down from the roof of a house have so far failed . |