Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Sutcliffe , wearing dark tinted glasses , listened carefully in the packed public benches as Mr Lightman read out an affidavit by Oliver Duke , once the boyfriend of Mail on Sunday reporter Barbara Jones , in which he admitted taking part in a scheme to get the money secretly from the newspaper to Mrs Sutcliffe . |
| 2 | Therefore for these people it may be sensible to attend both Fellowships right from the start . |
| 3 | So you 're kicking against the pricks right from the start . |
| 4 | Increasingly , then , the Conservative party is becoming a party that draws its support predominantly from the South of England , from the rural and suburban constituencies , and from home-owners . |
| 5 | They are very tolerant about boys ' mess in the home and untidiness generally , and in a sense they lay the foundations right from the very beginning of boys growing up to think of women as kind of household servants — this attitude , you know , boys will be boys and they make a mess and poor mum has to do all the washing . |
| 6 | Then , spontaneously , Changez pushed himself up and danced with them , lifting each foot ponderously from the floor like a performing elephant , and sticking his elbows out as if he 'd been asked , in a drama class , to be a flamingo . |
| 7 | Several of the group who took part most from the Certificate of Pre-Vocational Education course are handicapped in some way . |
| 8 | ‘ We were about twenty minutes altogether from the point where we realized they could n't get us down to the time when we stepped on to the roof . |
| 9 | One type of reservation relates to the class nature of adoption : it is thought that the observed beneficial effects of adoption stem mostly from the tendency of adoption to move children to a somewhat higher social class than that of the family of origin . |
| 10 | Of all the competing political parties , only the " Lithuanian Communist Party on the CPSU platform " ( a breakaway faction of the CPL , which favoured continued subordination to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and drew its support overwhelmingly from the minority Russian , Byelorussian and Polish populations — ibid. ) did not campaign with a pro-independence manifesto . |
| 11 | ‘ You 've taken the cottage on from the Russells , have n't you ? ’ |
| 12 | In March a draft anti-abortion bill in the Sejm had been signed by 171 deputies mostly from the ZChN and the Centre Alliance . |
| 13 | Thus it was that a young cosmochelonian of the Steady Gait faction , testing a new telescope with which he hoped to make measurements of the precise albedo of Great A'Tuin 's right eye , was on this eventful evening the first outsider to see the smoke rise hubward from the burning of the oldest city in the world . |
| 14 | Attempts throughout the day to coax an escaped owl down from the roof of a house have so far failed . |
| 15 | The Legal Aid Act 1974 provides that solicitor and counsel may receive their remuneration only from the fund . |
| 16 | It 's expenditure out and then income in from the Government . |
| 17 | In all of this giving away of herself ( which can be taken in two modern senses ) , this revelation of a coarser character beneath the courtly exterior she tries to sustain , Margery follows the movement of the opening stanzas of the text down from the character of the courtly dame to the level of the townswoman , a stereotyped bourgeois Vxor , " Wife " : the label that seems to be given her by the letter " " V " alongside some of her speeches in the manuscript copy of Dame Sirith . |
| 18 | The gate admits to a path , presumably made as a droveway for bringing sheep down from the fell ; this spirals up to the ridge where a turn to the right leads to the summit cairn . |
| 19 | It 'd be crazy to sort of do a dive in from the sort of recuperative process . |
| 20 | Daniel had pieced the story together from the radio : " with throat wounds . |
| 21 | Her hair down from the secret of her ears , |
| 22 | Millie is setting up two music stands and lugging her cello case in from the hall . |
| 23 | The Moebius Strip stands on the southern bank of the Grand Canal about a kilometre along from the Baratha Arcade , between the Church of the Directed Panspermia and a crustacean restaurant . |
| 24 | To create icon movies , you can pull icons in from the clip-art library , capture them off the desktop with the built-in capture program or create your own with the Frame Editor . |
| 25 | In addition , the Secretary of State has recently made an announcement on the decision to bring the high-speed link in from the east via Stratford rather than from the south . |
| 26 | The other team was the Levitt team with No 1 Libor Krejci , No 2 Prince Abdullah , who had flown his ponies in from the Argentine , and played extremely well , scoring several of the goals ; No 3 Marcelo Caset from the Argentine , and Lord Charles Beresford at back . |
| 27 | Jack had to fill the coal scuttles , Kevin to bring in the logs , Aengus had to roll yesterday 's papers into sausage-like shapes which would be used for lighting the fires later , Gerry , who was meant to be the animal lover , had to take Oswald for a run in the park , and see that there was something on the bird table in the garden , and Ronan had to open the big heavy curtains in the front rooms , take the milk in from the steps and place it in the big fridge and brush whatever had to be brushed from the big granite steps leading up to the house . |
| 28 | I also pointed out the difficulty of bringing a peer down from the Upper House-not only the short-term difficulty of the delay but also the psychological impact on the country . |
| 29 | That dying-duck look as he struggled to get his case down from the rack ! |
| 30 | Australia 's defeats at Swansea and Llanelli , and only four tries in five matches in Wales , have given new hope to home players and fans only 12 months on from the 38–3 record home defeat at the hands of the Wallabies . |