Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv prt] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They finished their drinks and as they got up from the table Fernando plucked a sprig of jasmine from the pergola . |
| 2 | They rode out from the stables in comparative silence , the groom a little way behind as befitted his position . |
| 3 | Using cement of their own manufacture , they skilfully build tubular houses for themselves out of materials that they pick up from the bed of the stream . |
| 4 | She therefore deduced that crude anthropomorphism is something which children are taught , not necessarily intentionally , in fact probably not intentionally at all , but it is something which they pick up from the comments which they hear and the deductions which they make . |
| 5 | Then the removal men came out of the house for the last time , wiping their brows on their once-white aprons , and then they helped down from the van a little old lady . |
| 6 | They found out from the crew that the ship had been boarded the night before a few miles out from Gdańsk by a Russian naval vessel and that a Polish passenger had been arrested and taken off . |
| 7 | They walk round from the school and they 've got a map of the places where the bombs dropped so |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They drove in from the west , on the 243 through Gunzerode , and along the cracked road that led past the IFA Motorenwerk where they once made bicycles and now were being upgraded to motor bikes . |
| 10 | As their numbers grew so they spread out from the areas still occupied and the abandoned warrens slowly began to be reoccupied . |
| 11 | They spread out from the Thing like a tide ; panels lit up like little skies full of stars , big lights in the ceiling flickered on , there was a distant banging and fizzing as electricity was woken up , and the air began to smell of thunderstorms . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | At Teheran airport they came down from the plane with Koreans in their hands . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He was waiting for them with his barge by the first footbridge over the canal as they came down from the moor . |
| 18 | Over these erm past couple of weeks we 've been looking at er some of the questions in the New Testament , we thought a couple of weeks back of the question that Jesus asked his disciples , do you think I 'm able to do this and then last week we looked at a question that the disciples put to Jesus , that time when they came down from the mountain and they found the re , three of them came down with Jesus from the mountain of transfiguration and they found the other disciples with a man who and a , whose son was demon possessed and er they had been unable to help him and the man or brings his son to Jesus and Jesus delivers him and afterwards the disciples who had been so helpless put the question to Jesus , why could we not cast out this demon and this morning I 'd like us to look at another question , we 've got another one today and one God willing next week , er and the question is , is found in Luke chapter thirteen , let me just read a few verses , because of course it 's , it 's not just the questions , it 's the answers that are important as well in Luke chapter thirteen , gon na read from verse twenty two it says in Jesus was passing through from one city and village to another , teaching and proceeding on his way to Jerusalem now that gives us a clue in that , because Jesus only ever went to Jerusalem apart from when he was a boy , he only ever went to Jerusalem once and that , after since that time , and that was when he was crucified , so Jesus was now on his way to Jerusalem , it was the latter days , the latter weeks of the life of Jesus , he was making his way now to Jerusalem and someone said to him Lord are there just a few who are being saved and Jesus said to hi , to them , strive to enter by the narrow door for many I tell you will seek to enter and will not be able , once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open to us , then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you are from , then you will begin to say we ate and drank in your presence and you taught in our streets , and he will say I tell you I do not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers , there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth there , when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the profits in the kingdom of God , but yourselves being cast out and they will come from East and West and from North and South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , and behold some ar some are last who will be first and some are first who will be last , so it 's just that question then , let's remind ourselves that is put to Jesus Lord are there just a few who are being saved |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ When they came back from the segregation unit they would thank us for getting the chance to get their heads together . ’ |
| 21 | Can certain individuals be directed in such a way that they stand out from the mass because they are the tellers of the story , the chief exponents in the drama or theme ? |
| 22 | They could not open the door , so they climbed down from the roof and got in through the window . |
| 23 | They set off from the village of Arghuri on the morning of June 20th , in the year of Our Lord 1840 , accompanied only by their Kurdish guide . |
| 24 | The final goodbyes were said and they stepped out from the smell of wood smoke , food and wine from a room which Dalgliesh was beginning to find uncomfortably warm into the fresh , sea-scented air . |
| 25 | As a result they flew out from the hive at an angle of 85° to the right of where the food actually was . |
| 26 | RUGBY LEAGUE came out of the north of England because a number of Yorkshire and Lancashire businessmen thought that talented lads should be compensated for time they took off from the pit or the plant . |
| 27 | They went through from the house to the barn , from the barn to the smithy , and then finally to the stables . |
| 28 | They looked down from the bridge and saw the arms washed upwards , the plague swellings plainly visible . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |