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

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1 Indeed , threads dangled down from all life , psychic and non-psychic alike .
2 White our colour , the colour of limbo : white sands , white rocks , a white light pouring down from all sides .
3 There were some forty of them , moving in from all directions , in gangs of no more than three or four .
4 Small flocks coming in from all directions joined the first arrivals until many thousands were stretched out in long parallel black lines .
5 Meanwhile , according to the Annual Register , petitions against the suspension of cash payments came in from all corners .
6 Both these men became good friends of mine and I frequently visited their homes to deliver large sacks of fan-mail which came in from all parts of the country and the northern U.S.A.
7 J. D. Hooker collected plants on expeditions to the southern polar regions and to the Himalayas , and soon plants ( in Wardian cases ) were flooding in from all parts of the world .
8 We opened up the parish hall to the wounded and dead which were brought in from all parts of the village .
9 We are struggling for a terminal at which trains can come in from all parts of the country , at which there can be an interchange for the continent and at which people can move on relatively quickly .
10 For years he was a member of the Saturday sub editorial staff processing the comprehensive sports copy flowing in from all parts of the world for Ireland Saturday Night , a newspaper for which he had a deep affection .
11 The focal point of the town centre is the church , with old buildings threaded by narrow alleyways hemming in from all sides .
12 It seemed to be seeping in from all sides , but how ?
13 Rapturous as the circumstances of its conception may have been , the genesis as a whole could only , in retrospect , seem an extraordinarily painful business , as he intimated to Rohde shortly after the book was out : " No one has any idea how such a book comes into being : the trouble and torment it is to keep oneself as clear as this of other ideas pressing in from all sides ; the courage needed to conceive of it and the honesty needed to carry it through ; and above all , perhaps , my tremendous task vis-à-vis Wagner , which has certainly been the cause of many heavy clouds in my heart " the task of being independent even here , of taking up an , as it were , alienated stance . "
14 Offers of help have been pouring in from all quarters , with the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum , Elizabeth Esteve-Coll putting her conservation department at the ready to assist , and the Secretary of State for National Heritage , Peter Brooke , conceded that his department would be responsible for financing the repair bill .
15 To ensure that information would sift through from all corners of the Company , a local spokesperson was elected from each department .
16 Finials and crockets were profusely employed and the spire itself was a fretwork of stone with light shining through from all sides .
17 Whenever I believed I had come up with something , I probed it for every sort of oversight , tested it through from all angles .
18 The western sectors of Berlin ( entirely surrounded by the Soviet core ) were cut off from all access by land to the West , as the Soviets tried to force concessions from the Western powers on the future shape of Germany .
19 But now , fallen from her cabin , she was cut off from all understanding , and had no strength to kick against the darkness that had come down around her .
20 And then when he died and she followed him so soon , you see , I was at once cut off from all example of domestic life between the sexes .
21 The part-time element of a battalion is made up from all sections of the community : farmers , solicitors , factory workers , office managers , garage mechanics and the unemployed , to name but a few , alI united by the common desire to see their country rid of terrorism .
22 C ) Outgoing mail to be picked up from all Divisions and GWM/MAR/CMG out–trays before 10.00am and at 11.00 am , 1.00 pm , 3.45 pm ( 2.45 pm — Friday ) .
23 ‘ Light ! ’ the cry was taken up from all sides .
24 Another sign of the past was carefully concealed from passing strangers , but Yakovlev 's interest was aroused by the frequent sight of windowless huts with smoke pouring out from all sides of their thatched roofs .
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