Example sentences of "[adv prt] from the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the head of the lake is Flitelen , on the delta of the river Reuss , which there enters the lake after flowing down from the Gotthard . |
| 2 | Bauen enjoys an unexpectedly mild climate thanks to a sunny situation and also to its openness to the Fohn wind which brings Mediterranean warmth down from the Gotthard in spring . |
| 3 | By far the more important comprised rivers flowing down from the Kunlun Mountains in the regions of Khotan and Yarkand on the south-eastern margin of the great basin containing the Taklamakan Desert . |
| 4 | Observers held their breath as the former Derry City and Shelbourne star took to the pitch for his first game but the thunderous greeting that cascaded down from the Windsor stands proved it was unnecessary caution . |
| 5 | Letters will come down from the Guildhall tomorrow . |
| 6 | There is the Severn Trent version , mainly from reservoirs in Wales with added fluoride and there is a hidden source underground which rolls down from the Derbyshire Peak District . |
| 7 | Good I 'm pleased about that , so I did n't really want somebody coming all the way down from the West End cos I 'm I , I 'm what I would call a buyer , I 'm only going to be a buyer if I can get money from somewhere that I do n't know you know what I mean . |
| 8 | The first such coins were made from electrum from the rivers that flowed down from the Troilus Mountains , but advantage was soon taken of the different status in the traditional value system of the gold and silver components to separate them and use them for different denominations . |
| 9 | A fourth — a girl — had an epileptic fit as rescuers brought them down from the Lake District peak at Ullswater in Cumbria . |
| 10 | Bernard Mullan , one of the Fascists who had come down from the Chelsea headquarters , was under arrest . |
| 11 | He could easily have been a character in a Thomas Mann novel — the great remote maestro venturing down from The Magic Mountain to talk to a visiting writer . |
| 12 | Latham , aged 57 , succeeds Joe Pickavance , who stepped down from the Knowsley Road chair a week ago for health reasons . |
| 13 | All but one of the 12 videos ( ‘ Stop Me ’ ) are so dull one requires tentative electric shocks to the eyelids to keep awake , while five ( ‘ What Difference ’ , ‘ Heaven Knows ’ , ‘ Shoplifters ’ , ‘ Boy ’ and ‘ Sheila ’ ) are n't even proper videos at all , just Top Of The Pops appearances dusted down from the BBC archives . |
| 14 | CLASSIC CUISINE : the innovative Belgian dishes of Pierre Wynants ' Comme Chez Soi draw Eurocrats down from the Berlaymont building to a scruffy Lower Town square . |
| 15 | Meantime , back at the Bourne , the crowd were treated to a display of power tennis from Duncan Knight who had come down from the David Lloyd Centre with Onny Parun . |
| 16 | Trails of misty Lochaber rain came down from the Nevis mountain range and the round purple heather-clad hills of Glen Loy . |
| 17 | Three male actors , two big and one small , once staged an experiment in the Champs-Elysées , that magnificent wide road running down from the Arc de Triomphe in Paris . |
| 18 | Swirls of clouds billowed down from the Towers and the glaciers hung vertically , suspended like gigantic icicles , while flocks of birds scattered and spun before them , helpless in the wild turbulence . |
| 19 | The volatility of the Cusqueños coupled with the increasing pressure among them of poor campesinos who had come down from the Andes to seek a better life stood in ironic contrast to the rigid panoply of the state ; a situation brought home to me on Easter Sunday . |
| 20 | George MacDonald saw the people from Strathnaver arriving at the sea : ‘ When they came down from the Strath to the sea-shore they suffered very much from want of houses . |
| 21 | Ian had been travelling down from the States and through Mexico . |
| 22 | The river was called Rush River , because of the speed with which it roared down from the Blue Mountains , scoring a twisted gorge through the forest . |
| 23 | Below it flows the Dorn , known to the Saxons as the Milk , from the cloudiness of its water after rain : and one still sees it as the Saxons saw it a thousand years ago , as I saw it a few minutes ago in the thin rain drifting down from the Cotswolds . |
| 24 | They , therefore , flow down from the FPCs to the ( non-practice budget ) GPs with the actual expenditure incurred flowing in the opposite direction . |
| 25 | If , when the list of members is handed down from the St Andrew 's House — Scotland 's Whitehall — it contains a majority of business people , it will be a message from the government that Scotland is not ready for consensus . |
| 26 | National Guardsmen and military police flown in from the USA to help stem looting in the immediate aftermath of the hurricane were withdrawn gradually towards the end of the year . |
| 27 | The issuing of the warrants were directly due to the testimony of key Mafia informers such as Tommaso Buscetta , who flew in from the USA to give testimony to a parliamentary anti-Mafia commission . |
| 28 | Unprinted goods were given exemptions for the sake of the English textile printing industry , fashionable Indian muslins were smuggled in from the Channel Islands , and the re-export trade to the rest of the world was unaffected , so Indian exports rose steadily . |
| 29 | An hour later , the second time zone results should be coming in from the Mid-West . |
| 30 | Although , long before Johnson , Daniel Defoe found Elgin ‘ a very agreeable place to live in ’ — those gentry not wishing to venture as far as Edinburgh or London came in from the Highlands for the winter — Elgin 's time came later : a half-century after our heroes ' visit , it became a little classical Victorian market town whose streets and suburbs echoed Edinburgh 's New Town in elegance and spaciousness . |