Example sentences of "[adv prt] from [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That dropped me down from second place . ’ |
| 2 | A. insectivore mandible ( ×20 ) ; B. broken tip of ascending ramus of insectivore mandible ( ×75 ) ; C. femur head with impact damage on edge of articular surface with a crack extending from it ( ×75 ) ; D. abraded edge of greater trochanter ( ×38 ) ; E. femur and pelvis ( ×11 ) ; F. broken end of femur shaft with little evidence of rounding ( ×75 ) ; G. broken end of pelvis with crack extending down from uneven break but little evidence of rounding ( ×75 ) ; H. two distal humerus fragments ( ×12 ) . |
| 3 | Indeed , threads dangled down from all life , psychic and non-psychic alike . |
| 4 | Straight down from that window was a sheer drop |
| 5 | For 15 years he served as warehouse foreman before stepping down from that position to take responsibility of the new pre-mix plant . |
| 6 | ‘ For the sake of her memory I would n't have hesitated to bring you crashing down from that pedestal if I 'd discovered anything damning about you . ’ |
| 7 | They have used them already to build communal tents , to extrude life-lines guiding them over plants , or ropes to let themselves down from one twig to another . |
| 8 | It also implies work which has been previously accomplished , an inheritance handed down from one generation to another . ’ |
| 9 | Because this song was simply handed down from one generation of drill sergeants to another , the symbolism may have origins much earlier than a superficial analysis may indicate . |
| 10 | Much of what we do in daily life is done by habit , which may be passed down from one generation to another . |
| 11 | But eventually the servile condition of the peasants ( and the privileged status of nobles ) became hereditary , passed down from one generation to the next . |
| 12 | Herbal remedies therefore still remain very important and it is campesina women rather than men who know about the healing properties of local herbs and pass their knowledge down from one generation to the next . |
| 13 | Each generation of legionnaires was expected to carry forward the traditions and ethics of the Legion , handing them down from one man to the next . |
| 14 | I do n't know , Victorine said : it was all pulled down from one day to the next , and you know it happened during the war , everything was topsy-turvy then . |
| 15 | I mean if you ask what happens when electrons drop down from one orbit to another inside the atom , the emit light , which is the thing we are familiar with , but erm physicists tend to think of this as particles which they call photons . |
| 16 | Down from one corner of her mouth Wilson was alarmed to see a thin trickle of dark red blood . |
| 17 | She tossed the missile up and down from one hand to another , trying to look menacing . |
| 18 | Inflation 's fallen again to a new thirty year low , and now stands at one point two percent , down from one point three percent . |
| 19 | This deal with Channel Ten will ensure that Campese continues playing Test rugby despite his statements earlier this year that he would step down from international rugby and establish a permanent business base in Italy . |
| 20 | The decision by World Cup winning Wallaby captain Nick Farr-Jones to step down from representative rugby in 1992 because of family and business reasons introduces the question : ‘ Who will take over the leadership reins ’ ? |
| 21 | ( Alternatively , you could pretend that you have just been beamed down from outer space and that you do not understand a word that he is saying — which is at least partly true ! ) |
| 22 | By the time we reach the end of the scene we see that this is how it is , for the fulsome praisers of their father put aside their hypocrisy and , left alone with each other , and with us , reveal their true nature , moving down from inflated verse to coldly pragmatic prose : They are not only cold and censorious — ‘ unruly waywardness … infirm and choleric years … unconstant starts ’ — but end by planning some form of counteraction : ‘ We shall further think on it ’ — ‘ We must do something , and i ’ th' heat' ( 307f . ) . |
| 23 | French Professor stands down from British transplant centre |
| 24 | From this depression , the descent is continued down the Mallerstang flank , soon linking with Ais Gill coming down from Wild Boar Fell . |
| 25 | Absenteeism is down from 28 p.c. to 6 p.c . |
| 26 | The only faces that greeted them belonged to sundry dead abbots glaring down from dusky oil paintings . |
| 27 | A similar ramp will lead down from this embankment , to pass beneath the bridge that will carry the new road over the East Coast Main Line railway . |
| 28 | He is very unselfishly standing down from this scheme although the Group Captain did offer him a place on it in recognition of his services to the committee . |
| 29 | Spina Bifida children were encouraged to get up and down from this position . |
| 30 | Scores of dazzling white Moorish dwellings stare down from this hilltop village at the shimmering Mediterranean , protected by the impressive peaks of the Sierra Cabrera . |