Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv prt] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amateur Steve Swiers brought David Elsworth in from the cold on Statajack , also at Epsom . |
| 2 | ( A frog horn is a gas-powered small-craft warning which was used at the melin to get Nigel down from the millpond to the telephone . |
| 3 | As long as Corinth led the Peloponnesians , Athens had the best of it , though she was sufficiently alarmed to build the Long Walls , which secured communications between Athens and her harbour city of Piraeus : in future , Spartan invasions would not cut Athens off from the sea ( Thuc. i. 107 ) . |
| 4 | The ring of the telephone brought May up from the table , saying , ‘ I bet that 's Charlie . ’ |
| 5 | She had to face the fact that Phoebe was not , not then and not at any time , going to pull Maggie out from the night-time and into the daylight of loving and needing . |
| 6 | Mr Darby himself , a professionally miserable man in his late sixties , handed Billykins down from the car and into the chapel and , as the mourners crowded in after her , as politely unaggressive as only mourners can be , there was a real , though muted feeling of loss in the air . |
| 7 | Beyond the immediate punishment of casting Adam out from the garden of Eden or Cain from human society , beyond the destruction of the flood and the scattering of the nations , there was always God 's ultimate intention for man 's well-being and blessing . |
| 8 | He ordered Trent back from the handhold on the companionway so that he was safely out of range while untying the rope . |
| 9 | The silent question was as instinctive as her moment of surrender , hardly a conscious thought , but it was enough to wrench Isabel back from the precipice . |
| 10 | It cut Romney Marsh off from the mainland . |
| 11 | THE TACTICS which brought George Bush back from the political dead in last year 's presidential election have backfired badly on Rudolph Giuliani , the Republican candidate for mayor of New York . |
| 12 | Many industries , fearful of foreign competition , have been lukewarm about the Uruguay round from the start . |
| 13 | Wallace in from the cold |
| 14 | There was coughing and shuffling and a lot of page-turning as the court prepared to move on to the next case , and Donaldson helped Mrs Balanchine down from the witness-box . |
| 15 | Er Lewis and Ramprakash there , so the umpire 's view is somewhat impeded , Lawrence in from the pavilion end , bowls to , oh the full length , and he 's off the mark with four , steers that down to deep third man , there is no deep third man , and er he indulges in a little token trot to the other end , but no one was going to chase that or , or stop it by any stretch of imagination , four , the total a hundred and sixteen for three . |
| 16 | These offensives enabled the bombing of the Japanese mainland and cut Japan off from the empire so crucial to any continuing war effort . |
| 17 | She chattered happily as Patrick drove along the Marylebone Road , speculating on the miracle that had brought John and Angela back from the dead . |
| 18 | In April 1938 their eastward advance reached the Mediterranean near Castellón , cutting Catalonia off from the rest of Republican Spain . |
| 19 | Schneidau follows Pound 's own broad hints by tracing his gradual alienation or liberation from these early admirations according as Ford 's demands for a prosaic strength in verse writing gradually won Pound over from the Wardour Street language of his own early poems ( such as ‘ Canzone : The Yearly Slain' , written in reply to Manning 's ‘ Korè ’ ) . |
| 20 | AND MUCH MORE His Master 's Voice says NO What other shops say to dogs PUPPY OF ALL BATTLES We help bring Des back from the Gulf |
| 21 | King Charles VII won Bayonne back from the foreigners in 1451 after a siege and , if a plaque set up in the cathedral has it right , with a little supernatural help . |