Example sentences of "[adv prt] the [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than 1,600 names — the people whose personal wealth is pledged to meeting insurance claims — lost money when they found themselves having to meet huge bills for asbestosis and pollution claims after Mr Outhwaite agreed to take on the risks from other Lloyd 's syndicates in 1982 . |
| 2 | And he had got a pile of something put on the ground from the er , at your park . |
| 3 | ‘ The idea was to pass on the information from generation to generation , so children traditionally played a very important part , ’ said a spokeswoman for the Open Spaces Society . |
| 4 | Beeren took on the job from Edy de Wilde in 1985 , before which he had been Director of the Museum Boymans van Beuningen in Rotterdam . |
| 5 | The stimulus which carried Boycott and Steele along might be of help to others who took on the world from modest beginnings . |
| 6 | They are strays , having been carried here by the glacier that once occupied Crummackdale as it retreated at the end of the Ice Age , scouring the ground as it departed and bringing down the boulders from their place of origin higher in the valley . |
| 7 | For Courtney this was a return to Africa , for he had been a big-game hunter and had once canoed down the Nile from Lake Victoria . |
| 8 | Immediately after doing so , before her new skin has had a chance to harden , she is particularly vulnerable , so before the event , she ties down the door from the inside with ropes of silk . |
| 9 | Using a long hooked pole , he yanked down the mistletoe from the boughs of an old apple tree . |
| 10 | In order to help accommodate the costs of the Navy 's new carrier , CVA 01 , and Polaris , and the RAF 's TSR 2 , such projects as the Army 's Blue Water artillery missile were cancelled in August 1962 ; and , despite the pressure on Army manpower , it was decided to run down the Gurkhas from 14,600 to 10,000 rather than cut any more British battalions — a decision that had to be reversed nine months later to meet the needs of the Borneo campaign . |
| 11 | FORSTON IS a tiny hamlet on the River Cerne , which winds down the valley from Cerne Abbas to join the River Frome at Dorchester . |
| 12 | Further down the valley from Low Birk Hatt is a place I own called Walker Hall , which has 17 acres of land . |
| 13 | Enter the formula +E2/ ( 1+$B$2 ) ∘D2 into F2 and copy this down the column from F2 to F2 … |
| 14 | The overall volume of transport decreases both up and down the beach from this zone . |
| 15 | The traffic was light : the blue twinkle of a Mitchum magnet train on the Phobos-Byzantium run ; a little old Fargo slipping down the gradient from Longevity or Silverside , fresh vegetables for the Martians . |
| 16 | Coffin heard feet coming down the staircase from the upper floor of the house . |
| 17 | So node X quote dominates a node Y if and only if there 's a path leading down the tree from X to Y. It 's straightforward , just means it 's higher up in the tree , and there 's a path connecting them . |
| 18 | They clambered down the cliff-path from Sea House and set off in a western direction along the beach to Badstoneleigh . |
| 19 | Some of them will be practising meditation exercises before they swoop down the ramp from a platform to begin their few minutes of profound torture . |
| 20 | Through his tastes and his trials , his political naivety and optimism , McCarthy is led gently down the ramp from the awe-inspiring pedestal of the brilliant scientist to take his place in the milling crowd of common humanity . |
| 21 | Throw down the prices from the West but of course good high real foreign currency for Soviet Union . |
| 22 | To offer a perhaps extreme example , the Gloucestershire clothiers who celebrated the completing in 1779 – 82 of the Stroudwater Canal had been trying since 1730 to intercept the coal supplies moving down the Severn from the pits of the Midlands . |
| 23 | Bass , tenor , alto and soprano ; the words seemed to glide up and down the scale from moment to moment with no consistency . |
| 24 | Riven took a place halfway down the hall from the high seats where the lords clustered and the Lady Jinneth adorned her husband 's elbow . |
| 25 | Capt. Valentine Strasser , Chairman of the Supreme Council of State ( SCS ) , was reported on Dec. 2 to have reshuffled his government , slimming down the SCS from 20 to five members , and making other extensive changes . |
| 26 | This , I think sums up the Kitchens rather neatly — they 're not much like corporate-trousered rock stars , but they 're hardly the Manic Street Preachers attempting to bring down the system from within either . |
| 27 | All the occupants of Teignmouth had fled as the French came ashore and the 500 horse militia which assembled on Haldon [ or Halden ] Hill , some two miles [ 3.2 km ] behind Teignmouth , simply watched as the invaders tore down the thatch from the cottages before setting them on fire . |
| 28 | Finally , long after her ‘ spot ’ had been and gone , Deborah arrived , hot and flustered having been shunted down the Thames from London Weekend on a boat with a troupe of belly dancers all making last minute adjustments to their costumes , or lack of them . |
| 29 | Kisling was livid , and with the help of some friends managed to grab the sculptor and throw him down the stairwell from the seventh floor . |
| 30 | However , the sort of routine farces and imitations of earlier successes being handled by British Lion were hardly a match for spectacular films like El Cid ( 1961 ) , Dr No ( 1962 ) , The Longest Day ( 1962 ) and Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ) that were now coming down the line from American companies , with a ‘ British ’ tag on them . |