Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] from a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could hear them squeaking off from a distance . |
| 2 | ‘ On one occasion I woke up from an operation in hospital and asked her if she had brought my Echo . ’ |
| 3 | Perhaps my problem is the way I perceived the first news of the crumbling of the old Europe ; sitting in hospital and festooned in drip feeds and stoned out of my mind on pethidine as I came round from an anaesthetic , I muzzily watched the news on the TV in the corner of my room and truly believed I was hallucinating as I saw kitchen choppers taking down the Berlin Wall ; after such a beginning to the thaw , how can I believe that as well as East Germany 's arrival in the West , Czechoslovakia is almost herself again . |
| 4 | On Saturday 4 June , I came in from a morning 's canvassing in Sutton Coldfield to find an urgent message to call Conservative Central Office . |
| 5 | I came back from a business trip to find her gone . ’ |
| 6 | I realised I was missing half the jokes , so I mugged up from a textbook — and here I am , ready for more ! ’ |
| 7 | I get in from a dull lunch and find your urgent communication on my desk . |
| 8 | Instructions I copied out from a girls ' annual for 1954 . |
| 9 | I took over from a guy who went out the stage door and somebody said to him , ‘ Have you got a light ? ’ |
| 10 | As a kid at Oldham , I took over from a long-established fixture in the side at Boundary Park , Peter McDonald , and had most of my mistakes during games forgiven because I was so young . |
| 11 | I took off from an airfield near Stroud and flew to Basingstoke . |
| 12 | It seems that every time I come back from a big disappointment I win . ’ |
| 13 | Spain 's 35% growth has been fuelled by its catching up from a low base , government investment policies , especially in the workstation arena . |
| 14 | By his technique , by the force of words and theme , by the disciplined speed of his narrative , he draws us into a fiction which takes off from a foundation of known fact and recognisable truth . |
| 15 | Inflation , which fell back from an annual rate of 79 per cent in January 1990 to 1.7 per cent in August , was at 4 to 5 per cent a month for the rest of the year , partly because of oil price rises due to the Gulf war . |
| 16 | This task , which follows on from a programme covering these subjects , incorporates the strands of communication skills , behavioural sciences , ethics , and law in the assessment . |
| 17 | This project , which follows on from a number of years of ESRC funded research in the same group , on the psychology of communication and relationships , aims to explore and to unify these two areas . |
| 18 | The study , which follows on from a pilot study funded by ESRC , involves the Departments of Civil Engineering and Law . |
| 19 | Diesel is available on the pontoons from a long pipe which extends down from a makeshift pump at the pontoon head . |
| 20 | The car drew to a halt by a green sward of carefully tended lawn which ran down from an impressive-looking office building towards the river . |
| 21 | It spans the Laxford River which comes down from a string of lochs alongside the Lairg road and is notable for salmon fishing . |
| 22 | Who was he , this man who knew her name , who got up from a collision that should have killed him outright , and still managed to outrun a healthy man ? |
| 23 | The noise alerted a woman who came in from a side door and challenged him quite sharply . |
| 24 | Then one time she came back from a job and had a trendy , short cut . |
| 25 | When she came back from a date with the Prince she would be full of sympathy for him uttering phrases like ‘ they work him too hard ’ or ‘ it 's appalling the way they push him around . ’ |
| 26 | Are n't you going on from a mistake ? |
| 27 | Instead you manipulate the plots of the others to your own ends , playing one off against the others , letting them waste their energies in fruitless rivalries while you look on from a safe distance , waiting patiently for the moment to make your move , the day when I drop dead and you can come home and claim your own . |
| 28 | When you look down , when you are seeing it in on the television pictures , you look down from an aerial view . |
| 29 | She takes off from a field behind the hospital . |
| 30 | To complicate the situation , let us assume that the package under consideration is itself called up from a higher package with a different manager . |