Example sentences of "[vb base] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 An Avenger , Helicat , T–33 , F–101 and DC–3 survive in the airfield scrapyard , whilst types like Cessna 0–1 , T–6 Texan , Navion and Naval Aircraft Factory N3N , plus various gliders fly from the airfield on a regular basis .
2 An Avenger , Hellcat , T-33 , F-101 and DC-3 survive in the airfield scrapyard , whilst types like Cessna O-1 , T-6 Texan , Navion and Naval Aircraft Factory N3N , plus various gliders fly from the airfield on a regular basis .
3 ‘ I am responsible for making sure all the pilots who fly from the airport are fit .
4 Every year Arctic terns fly from the North Pole to the South Pole — and then back again .
5 Huge crowds have gathered , elephants are drawn up , banners are borne aloft , and pennants and flags fly from the entrance and corner towers .
6 ‘ Fair Loch Ranza , the lone hamlet which her inland bay/And circling mountains sever from the world , ’ wrote Sir Walter Scott .
7 Smith bent over and lifted the remains of the TV cable and plug from the floor .
8 When shoots appear from the soil , put the pot on a sunny window-sill and remove the polythene bag .
9 I looked out to sea , almost as though I expected to see a puff of smoke and a beast with a forked tail appear from the darkness .
10 A group appear from the house , a motley collection like a troupe of clowns .
11 I , I propose from the chair , we give 'em four hundred pound .
12 ‘ A reprieve from the telly of l-u-v . ’
13 Will emphasis shift from the provision of services with a high value-added component to the bulk handling of a large number of fairly simple enquiries ?
14 The bar was crowded with men coming off shift from the electronics factory all arguing heatedly about a disputed penalty in a soccer match being shown on a T.V. set above the counter , the fact that the match had taken place two months before in no way diminishing the fervour of the argument .
15 Joan McAlpine 's article today on screen violence ( ‘ A hollow hooray for Hollywood ’ ) was not the balanced journalism most of us expect from The Scotsman , but an ill-informed , highly politicised , rant .
16 This book probably presents what we all expect from the future : that anything can happen , between cosmology and religion .
17 The campaigning or action group of committed older people may not be what many people expect from the counselling process , preferring acceptance and contentment rather than possible militancy as the outcome of help and support .
18 What people want and expect from the radio is not necessarily what those who control broadcasting want to give them .
19 Castella offers a different brand of joke-hero : the ingenious angler who beats the rest by treating the fish to Des O'Connor on a submerged stereo system , until they leap from the water to escape the torture .
20 Then , flexing their powerfully muscled silver bodies , they thrash their tails and leap from the water .
21 Parkas worn over close-fitting body pieces leap from the gloaming in acid greens , violent oranges , purples and cardinal reds .
22 To prevent starvation on more plebeian trains , passengers had to take all their food with them or leap from the train the moment it drew into a station and rush for the buffet .
23 But then they had seen a number of man-things leap from the line of vehicles in front of the blazing building , and spread out in a loose line .
24 CARNAGE : Flames billow from the crater where the huge jet finally came to rest after ripping a canyon through the shattered Amsterdam apartment blocks last night Picture : DE TELEGRAAF
25 AN ELEGIAC , unutterably sad stop-all-wars cry from the son of master painter Auguste .
26 It aims to improve adoption procedure and provides for more say from the child , as well as from the adults in a disputed case .
27 and I have tablets from the doctor and you see as I say from the waist upwards I 'm
28 If the development of civil society means in later capitalism , say from the end of the nineteenth century , the flourishing of an independent cultural and aesthetic sphere , then this might , as I argued at length above , be disruptive to the ideal interests , indeed to the very identity , of the bourgeoisie .
29 The radically innovative multi-disciplinary research proposal , say from the interface between the departments funded by SERC and MRC , is unlikely to be successful with either .
30 I think they have very little say from the point of diagnosis to treatment of anything .
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