Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] from [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The account goes on from year to year , for as long as you want .
2 One view is that , even though the current physical self will perish , the spirit goes on from life to life ; if this is the case , one of the things that spirit has to learn is how to deal with all areas of negativity. 1 believe that , by the time the spirit enters the body , it has already chosen the lessons it wishes to learn and the difficulties it wishes to overcome during that lifetime .
3 Now that the state itself is disintegrating around us , while folk culture goes on from strength to strength , they need to be re-stated ( ibid : 95 ) .
4 ‘ Love is a local Anguish , ’ he wrote after he and Hucks had travelled on from Wrexham .
5 In general , enzyme defects are inherited — passed on from parents to children in the form of an abnormal gene .
6 It is an oral history , passed on from generation to generation .
7 For hundreds and indeed thousands of years , this knowledge has only been intuitive , passed on from generation to generation .
8 CUSTOM — A well-established , traditional mode of socially relevant behaviour passed on from generation to generation that prescribes the proper ways of behaving in given situations or under given conditions .
9 ‘ Are you interested in the actual fishing that used to go on from Lowestoft ?
10 The former came from ‘ blues ’ ( amphetamines ) as it was common for dances to go on from Saturday into Sunday .
11 For instance , if we want a trajectory that goes then we start in region 1 ; to get to region 3 we must be in the right-hand " third " of region 1 ; if we are going to go on from region 3 to region 4 , we must be in the right-hand " third " of that " third " ; and , to go on to region 2 , in the left " third " of that " third " , etc .
12 They drag on from generation to generation and emigration to Britain makes very little difference .
13 JFK : flown down from Washington and flung together by the doctors ' knives and the sniper 's bullets and introduced on to the streets of Dallas and a hero 's welcome .
14 Adam got down from Goblander and said ,
15 JOCELYN BROWN flies in from America for a one-off show for the Songwriters Network at London Subterania on May 6 .
16 Bill Saltman , the director , flies in from Miami .
17 Now when my mother flies in from Vancouver she barely recognizes the city that was her home for nearly 40 years .
18 I have only just flown in from Paris and I am very tired . ’
19 The sofas and chairs were deep and soft enough to fall asleep in , a fireplace was topped by an Adam mantel which Hugo had had flown out from England and everywhere there were fresh flowers — long stemmed hothouse roses , orchids flown in from Singapore , daffodils and narcissi and heavy perfumed hyacinths .
20 The nearest supply of that now will have to be flown in from Rockhampton . ’
21 The one on the right had flown in from Finland .
22 His 38th-minute effort came straight from the dream factory , which was appropriate considering he had flown in from EuroDisney only three hours before kick-off .
23 And for apres-apres-ski there were always the lovely blonde women flown in from Madam Claudes famous establishment in Paris .
24 Instead , he drove away in the , ran over a kerb , got a flat tyre and kept going — to pick up Vicky Vanderford , whom he had flown in from California .
25 Pietro has flown in from London and he 's assured me that as soon as the gang make contact the matter will be resolved without further delay .
26 The body of Stanislovas Jamaitis was flown in from Moscow , received by his family .
27 David Smith was flown in from England as cover for Gooch , only to have his thumb badly bruised in the one-day international in Barbados and so miss the Bridgetown Test .
28 The madman has just flown in from Rome on a whim , to spend a few days with me here .
29 Marshals — and waitresses flown in from Germany — will make sure drinkers do n't get too many steins of beer at the four day event .
30 Bernadette 's tearful sister Rosie , who had flown in from Germany , said : ‘ All the relatives are giving Farrah lots of hugs and kisses .
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