Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scales got up from his seat at the table in Wycliffe 's little office but Wycliffe waved him back . |
| 2 | Foreign imports into Britain continued to grow rapidly in the 1970s and 1980s while UK exports of manufactures levelled off from the late 1970s , making the UK a net importer of manufactured goods for the first time in the long history we have described ( Figure 2.1 ) . |
| 3 | A myriad becks tumbled down from the hills into the valleys and dales below , cutting a gorge here or following the old meltwater channels there . |
| 4 | In a television address , he called on deputies to pull back from the brink . |
| 5 | In a television address , he called on deputies to pull back from the brink . |
| 6 | Figure 10 Crystal forms built up from spheroidal atoms from A. Ure , Dictionary of Chemistry , third edition , London , 1828 , after W. H. Wollaston whose models are in the Science Museum , London . |
| 7 | Sharp icicles fly out from the caster 's hand and strike the first unit or model in their path . |
| 8 | Yucca elephantipes stands out from the common herd with care |
| 9 | By concentrating on pebbles carried down from alpine sources in the beds of rivers and streams , full advantage could be taken of the erosive power of water in wearing away adhering rock and concentrating the sought after greenstone . |
| 10 | Recently released Home Office papers in fact show that the authorities drew back from prosecuting even the most blatant cases of anti-semitic propaganda both before and during the Second World War despite the fact that it was ostensibly being fought to destroy Hitlerism . |
| 11 | Afterwards Martha provided ham and a salad with hard-boiled eggs like gleaming bald heads sticking out from limp lettuce leaves for the few people who turned up . |
| 12 | Steps led up from the stone paving to a wide veranda , which was adorned with hanging plants and tubs full of flowers . |
| 13 | The puppies were entrancing — English springer spaniels with silky coats , long , soft ears and beautiful , intelligent eyes , three German shepherds showing promise of becoming magnificent animals , Yorkshire terriers , timid and appealing , with their sharp little eyes gazing out from under their long hair , and two Jack Russell terriers , already boisterous and full of life . |
| 14 | Many gardeners believe that an informal pool should be planted liberally , with waterlilies obscuring areas of the water surface , and reeds and rushes tumbling in from the garden . |
| 15 | Good insights into the darker side of Hergé 's career , but the lack of illustrations from the Tintin books cries out from every page |
| 16 | Phosphorescent purple eyes peer out from beneath shells ; black sea urchins swivel their spines as they slowly perambulate on needle tip ; starfish of an intense blue spangle the sand ; and patterned rosettes unfurl from holes in the smooth surface of coral . |
| 17 | The most abundant isotope of oxygen , 18 O , has an atomic mass of 16 units made up from eight protons and eight neutrons . |
| 18 | The profits growth came on the back of a 26 per cent rise in sales to more than £53m , with the total number of units sold up from 676 to 745 in the year . |
| 19 | Both have black , hairy spikes sticking up from their bodies , but the small tortoiseshell caterpillars are black and yellow , while the peacocks appear at first to be completely black all over . |
| 20 | The eyes gazed out from the screen . |
| 21 | ‘ From the way both drivers got out from their vehicles and looked ready to tear each other apart , I doubt it , ’ Ven answered , and halted at her bedroom door . |
| 22 | Then the Prophet 's lips drew back from his teeth in a soundless snarl of triumph , and the next thing Curtis knew , he was staring down the muzzle of the gun the other had levelled at him from point blank range . |
| 23 | The Prophet 's bloody lips drew back from his teeth in a silent snarl of hate , and he began to speak . |
| 24 | His lips drew back from his teeth . |
| 25 | The enormous edifice of presumed relationships built up from careful study of homologous structures , ( the supreme example is the study of bones in the skulls of reptiles ) may have to be re-examined , and if necessary dismantled and rebuilt from the ground up . |
| 26 | There is then not only a relative gap to be filled , in these new terms , but also , from the quality of some of the work on the arts carried out from other positions , a sense of challenge : indeed a sense that it may be above all in this still major area that the qualities of the kinds of thinking represented by the contemporary convergence stand most to be tested . |
| 27 | For some weeks now , Rusty had been in that peculiarly unreal state when words leap out from pages , voices or one 's own thoughts , and rudely rattle their bones about , or shove their meanings under one 's nose like exhibitionists until the meanings themselves vanish in a dance of death . |
| 28 | Sharp grey eyes peered out from his blackened face . |
| 29 | Columbus sees none of it , not the land 's fertility nor the sudden barrenness of the vanquished castles looking down from their pinnacles . |
| 30 | This may sound harsh , but it seems to me that when we lost our empire our eyes came down from the horizon and looked at our feet . |