Example sentences of "way [adv prt] from the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the way down from the summit of Broad Peak they passed Greg Child and the ailing Pete Thexton , who was to die in a lower camp that night from pulmonary oedema . |
| 2 | A bad weather front feeling its way over from the west like a nasty white octopus in the blue summer sky . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | That morning , the Gaelic voices rose and fell excitedly on the way back from the burn as the three women talked of the news their husbands brought — news of a new born baby on the other side of the island or a death on a neighbouring isle . |
| 5 | Since Richard held Seillan responsible for much of the trouble he refused to release him , either for a ransom or in exchange for prisoners taken by Count Raymond , even though these now included two of King Henry 's household knights , who had apparently wandered into the territory of Toulouse on their way back from the shrine of Compostella . |
| 6 | Loopy Lil got stuck in a drift on her way back from the farm with the milk . |
| 7 | Two hours later they pushed their way out from the cover of the trees into a tiny clearing no more than a handful of yards across . |
| 8 | We pray too for the homeless of our nation , and pray for a way out from the spiral of poverty and deprivation that confronts many today . |
| 9 | Plot the two variables in figure 10.2 the other way round from the plot in figure 10.3 , as if one wanted to predict the mortality rate from the chronic sickness rate . |