Example sentences of "[adv prt] from the country " in BNC.
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| 1 | Policemen marshall grumbling queues whenever a load of bread or chickens jolts in from the country . |
| 2 | Ray had come in from the country bank and we sat with Margaret through the short service . |
| 3 | In 1874 the Mercury reported that the custom was in decline but ‘ formerly several gangs of ‘ plough-witches ' ’ , ludicrously dressed and with hideous painted faces , came in from the country and visited the tradesmen 's shops , levying ‘ ‘ black-mail' ’ and generally terminating their begging rounds with drunken orgies ' . |
| 4 | She knew that some of the men there were shepherds who came in from the country and that all this must be connected with the kidnapping . |
| 5 | I , I can remember erm when we ever had women in from the country they 'd say , oh yes , y y my mother told me always to take raspberry , raspberry leaf tea . |
| 6 | And we used to have one gentleman come in from the country . |
| 7 | Well , it was mainly altruism ; to an extent the relationship they had with William Charles , the poor relation up from the country , was a symbiotic one . |
| 8 | And in a sense that was how they must view her , a difficult prickly maid up from the country . |
| 9 | And Richard took it upon himself to make his friend more sociable , bringing him up from the country for dinners and parties , to Oldfield 's obvious disinterest . |
| 10 | I 'm afraid Mr Steen has n't come up from the country . ’ |
| 11 | Mark thought out his letter for the October number of the parish magazine , while Sophia sorted out a basket of quinces which her mother had sent up from the country . |