Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The element of playing to the gallery is conserved in the way they portray the fight as a piece of street theatre , with the adults cheering them on from the balconies , while the girls offer silent support , as the boys defend the honour of the white community against the ‘ black invasion ’ . |
| 2 | Oxford , at 34 , with coach Pat Sweeney urging them on from the Oxford launch , began to assert their full power off Duke 's Meadows , drawing ahead while Cambridge , at 35 , began to look vulnerable . |
| 3 | The people who created the Garotter 's Act , together with the gentlemen who egged them on from the sidelines helping to fashion the vocabulary of objections to penal reform which remain with us to this day , were thus the same men whose blunted moral sensibilities enabled them to preside over this magnanimous process of ‘ civilisation ’ without turning a hair . |
| 4 | ‘ You bring them on from the time they 're little , and they think they 've got it made , then — wallop . ’ |
| 5 | But then , from what I hear , that 's overrun with bairns ; they 've stopped gathering them in from the streets . |
| 6 | But he is flying in the face of opposition from the ruling Labour group who recently boycotted a visit by a South African diplomat saying it was too early to bring them in from the cold . |
| 7 | A fourth — a girl — had an epileptic fit as rescuers brought them down from the Lake District peak at Ullswater in Cumbria . |
| 8 | THE Tranmere Rovers players were so high on good publicity before this match that their manager , John King , said he would have to pull them down from the ceiling . |
| 9 | Their manager , John King , said his players were so high on publicity that before this match he had to pull them down from the ceiling . |
| 10 | ‘ We put them in , me an ’ my friends , brought them down from the lake . |
| 11 | At the top end , very high-fliers are still in demand , to the extent that recruiters sometimes have difficulty pulling them down from the stratosphere to fill plum vacancies . |
| 12 | It was the music that had brought me in from the hall where I had been lying . |
| 13 | He had sneaked himself into the crowd of humans as the huge woman had herded them over from the train . |
| 14 | When , in 1974 an American friend brought me over from the States a copy of Elizabeth Gould-Davis 's The First Sex , I had a scholar 's confirmation of my conclusions . |
| 15 | I also have seen in Oldham near where I live , where an MP was imposed on that was held by Lamont for twenty two years , lived in Aberdeen I think it was , came to Oldham once a week to do his surgery and they put somebody in from the T N G. |
| 16 | What can be said for them is that if the High Priest is acting in the fullest awareness at present attainable by his people , it is right for him to perform the sacrifice , just as it would be right for a Western onlooker to try to dissuade him ; he is not like a Nazi who has voluntarily shut himself off from the knowledge of biology and history and the personal sensitivity attained by the culture of the Weimar Republic . |
| 17 | Pascoe closed himself off from the knowledge , like someone turning to face a wall . |
| 18 | Then they watched him pull himself up from the support of the couch and , keeping his eyes on Emma until he had passed her , he strode from the room . |
| 19 | Gasping for breath , Gentle registered little or none of this , but pushed himself up from the wall to re-launch his attack . |
| 20 | Leo had dragged himself up from the East End , where his father , a first-generation Jewish immigrant from the Ukraine , had worked as a tailor 's cutter ; James , on the other hand , had had one of those privileged English upbringings . |
| 21 | Pulling himself up from the floor he stood before the dying fire , his short fat legs and large stomach making Michael feel sick inside . |
| 22 | Benny pulled himself up from the floor with difficulty . |
| 23 | Slowly James Grierson pulled himself up from the floor . |
| 24 | He heaved himself up from the kitchen chair and reached for his coat behind the door . |
| 25 | The meal finished , Stan Carver , placing his hands on each side of his plate , slowly raised himself up from the table and , standing still for a moment , said , ‘ Thank God for a good dinner . ’ |
| 26 | Dexter levered himself up from the chair , his eyelids leaden with sleep , and murmured that he had to go home and rest . |
| 27 | At the riverside we can see Mr Gould on his stomach out on the ice , pushing himself back from the hole in the river ; people are shouting and running around ; we head down the river towards the narrows and the gorge and my father slips and almost drops me and his breath smells of whisky and food . |
| 28 | ( I prefer to gently lever them off from the underside with a small screwdriver ) . |
| 29 | The mist cut them off from the rest of the field . |
| 30 | They had travelled only a few yards into the dense timber when the silence of the woods closed in about them , cutting them off from the rest of humanity in a claustrophobic world of towering trunks and patches of thick underbrush . |