Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [adv prt] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was going to make the minutes up from the tape you see . |
| 2 | John will play his part shouting the lads on from the bench . |
| 3 | Right from the kick-off Hove took the game to Haslemere and only excellent defence held the visitors back from the line . |
| 4 | They had brought most of the pieces up from the harbour defences , not anticipating another seaborne assault meantime . |
| 5 | " I 've pulled the teams around from the yard plenty of times . |
| 6 | Wearing the spots off from the inside , |
| 7 | ‘ Last year , ’ he added , ‘ accountants advised us to let the station fold and buy the bits back from the receiver . |
| 8 | From London , they did the poles up from the Lyness up to the hill . |
| 9 | ‘ Last Christmas they brought the children over from the nursery school . |
| 10 | He smiled , seeing it ahead of him ; imagining Beth there in the low-beamed living room , the fire lit and the curtains drawn ; seeing her , as he had so often seen her , go to the back door and call the children in from the meadow . |
| 11 | Jannie pulled another of the chairs out from the table and sat down . |
| 12 | when we got the letters back from the Secretary of State one of his excuses if you like , for imposing such a savage tax was that it was save fuel and help the environment . |
| 13 | Slice the figs through from the stem end almost to the bottom , and again , resulting in each fruit opened like a flower into four ‘ petals ’ . |