Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Attempts throughout the day to coax an escaped owl down from the roof of a house have so far failed .
2 It 's expenditure out and then income in from the Government .
3 In all of this giving away of herself ( which can be taken in two modern senses ) , this revelation of a coarser character beneath the courtly exterior she tries to sustain , Margery follows the movement of the opening stanzas of the text down from the character of the courtly dame to the level of the townswoman , a stereotyped bourgeois Vxor , " Wife " : the label that seems to be given her by the letter " " V " alongside some of her speeches in the manuscript copy of Dame Sirith .
4 The gate admits to a path , presumably made as a droveway for bringing sheep down from the fell ; this spirals up to the ridge where a turn to the right leads to the summit cairn .
5 It 'd be crazy to sort of do a dive in from the sort of recuperative process .
6 Her hair down from the secret of her ears ,
7 Millie is setting up two music stands and lugging her cello case in from the hall .
8 In addition , the Secretary of State has recently made an announcement on the decision to bring the high-speed link in from the east via Stratford rather than from the south .
9 The other team was the Levitt team with No 1 Libor Krejci , No 2 Prince Abdullah , who had flown his ponies in from the Argentine , and played extremely well , scoring several of the goals ; No 3 Marcelo Caset from the Argentine , and Lord Charles Beresford at back .
10 That dying-duck look as he struggled to get his case down from the rack !
11 Six months on from the launch , Beaverton , Oregon-based Sequent Computer Systems Inc claims it has won 30 customers for its ptx/Clusters high-availability clustering technology , most with several hundred users attached .
12 John will play his part shouting the lads on from the bench .
13 and the salt-cracked slipway down from the jetty .
14 The next afternoon , Matilda managed to get a rather sooty and grumpy parrot down from the chimney and out of the house without being seen .
15 Since the market for this metal is dominated by the automotive industry there was an inevitable decline in price which ended the year at $1,350 per ounce , over 55% down from the year 's high point .
16 Western leaders were content to rest on their laurels , convinced that Nato 's ‘ steadfastness ’ had been crucial in bringing the Communist bloc in from the cold , that Western prosperity had been enough to convince the East of the hollowness of Marxism .
17 Your work is n't lost ; you just have to merge your styles in from the document in which you created them .
18 He is to bring the men under his command in from the west .
19 At the edge of the ribbed level of sidings squat a low cottage , three steps down from the cinder track ( 13 ) .
20 A shuttle bus operates to the hotel 's reserved section of beach at San Maria , which is accessed via 70 steps down from the road and has a beach bar .
21 Frustrated , he pulled books down from the shelf and knocked at the wall behind them .
22 Amateur Steve Swiers brought David Elsworth in from the cold on Statajack , also at Epsom .
23 The highlight of the whole tournament — almost irrespective of their performance on the field — will be SOUTH AFRICA 's emergence from the woods , a coming in from the cold which is generating a great excitement .
24 Somewhere on the outside was a frieze of armed horsemen ; and over the doorway in from the porch was a stone beam with animals in low relief on its outer face and , seated above it , two statues of goddesses ( or a goddess ) facing each other .
25 It 's a good idea to keep a couple of sacks of gravel over from the job , so you can fill ruts and top up bald patches as the drive wears and settles down .
26 Woodcuts can be mounted with type , because what is to print black stands up from the surface ; so it was easy to put pictures on the same page as descriptions , and herbals and bestiaries were liberally illustrated .
27 They may have gone down the medium wave dial from 10.17 to 8.55 , but their new premises in Ludlow is more than a few steps up from the barn .
28 All the Met Waafs at Bourn had by this time qualified for their ‘ props ’ , so we were two steps up from the bottom of the ladder and that 's where we stopped .
29 Make several small slits about 2.5cm/1in up from the base to allow excess water to drain away .
30 to load our jeep up from the magazine
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