Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] from their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A long and inconclusive stand-off in the Middle East , when oil prices could probably edge down from their recent $28-odd a barrel , would string out the recession but not deepen it greatly . |
| 2 | That was what his sharp intelligence had picked up from their first meeting . |
| 3 | A statement such as ‘ That makes me feel very angry/unhappy/sad/upset when you do that ’ rather than immediately shouting at the child enables parents to stand back from their immediate emotional reactions and also teach the child awareness of other people 's feelings . |
| 4 | The Glen came down from their right turgid and fast , shut in by hills on either side , round the rim of the Cheviots and the great curving flank of Yeavering Bell , and across their front to empty itself into the Till . |
| 5 | Furthermore , the Central Powers were virtually besieged and cut off from their new ally , Turkey , which had entered the war in October 1914 . |
| 6 | Budgets should be built up from their fundamental components ; for example , four staff at £20000 per annum gives staff costs of £80000 . |
| 7 | Lizards have a similar opening , between the nostrils and the eyes , for a gland that apparently helps get rid of excess salts which they tend to pick up from their dry and salty environments . |
| 8 | Everton travel to Nottingham Forest for a vital relegation battle , Liverpool aim to bounce back from their European exit at home to Middlesbrough while Tarnmere have an attractive top of the table clash at Leicester . |
| 9 | And the Postman 's spectacle was covered in greenflies from the vigorous activity up the tree : " No , but I says to him " — " Really , all right " — " Well " — " and " — " Oh , you 've done it " — " Must go down to the " — " Taps , got to get some " went the song to the rhythm of empty beer bottles dropping into the side pocket receptacles of tree-holder number 29 on the dustmen 's route — and the tip-holding pockets for the dustmen were not full or anything cos the ladies had all forgotten their purses , and the paper , folding , crumpled , torn money had long since fluttered down from their knicker-elastic banks . |
| 10 | A few more officers were drifting in from their various weekends , and the chatter turned to the likelihood of their being called out on an ‘ Agile Blade ’ exercise in the next few days . |
| 11 | The English colonies looked rather like colonies of the Greek type , where emigrants set out from their native city to launch a new city and , while often cherishing a deep affection for the city that they had left , did not acknowledge a political obligation to obey it . |
| 12 | In the wake of the F-111s that had flown out from their British bases to bomb targets in Tripoli and Benghazi , Mutual Radio 's correspondent arrived on the scene on 17 April with a laissez passer from the Libyan Consulate in Zurich . |
| 13 | Manchester , Liverpool do n't get on very well and there was a drugs problem , a very bad drugs problem er which had been brought in from their normal way of life outside . |
| 14 | One glimpse brought all his prejudices bubbling up from their hidden depths . |
| 15 | The indignity of the situation infuriated him : that he , straight from church , should be swamped by this ribald , vulgar , beer-reeking mob reeling out from their godless pleasures . |
| 16 | He had no time for the ritual marriage with the Everqueen since the legions of Nagarythe had swept down from their grim realm , bearing the banner of Malekith before them . |
| 17 | The evening shift of medics took over from their exhausted colleagues at 1800 hours . |
| 18 | None the less , irrespective of what their position might be , modern anthropology would reject the view that the progress of technology is totally irreversible , although the sequence of technological progress Marx and Engels took over from their anthropological sources is still , by and large , acceptable . |
| 19 | In order to overcome this blockade — which meant that the Berlin zones controlled by America , Britain and France , were cut off from their normal supply routes — a massive ‘ Air-lift ’ was organised by the three Allies , even coal was transported by air ! |
| 20 | This sense of inherited destiny could be especially powerful for those who were cut off from their real parents . |
| 21 | It must be said that because , traditionally , psychology comes from a denial of spirit whoever goes into the process is cut off from their own light . |
| 22 | We are cut off from their happy little world which we know nothing about and are unable to recognise much of our ways within theirs . |
| 23 | Bridget Ewing 's Bromley class , with money left over from their ball-buying funds , sponsored pupils from her Mentally Handicapped class at Belvedere to become members . |
| 24 | Or will it be overhearing Glastonbury delivering crisp instructions to Fagg about what to do with the detonators left over from their last operation ? |
| 25 | The High 's guitar sound is gradually thickening up from their mod-ish debut LP , and they 're starting to sound like the Atom bloody Seed . |
| 26 | ‘ All the social workers come in from their comfortable homes in the suburbs , while the priest actually lives in the parish . |
| 27 | If they come out from their defensive withdrawal and hesitantly accept the affection they are likely to need to test it out , to see whether it can withstand some heavy strain or whether , like past ties , it can be broken . |
| 28 | Darlington will be eager to follow on from their encouraging performance at Peterborough United . |
| 29 | Can the Directors of the Court of the Bank see down from their lofty offices to the struggles that the Bank Assistants endure/ Is it possible that the clouds get in the way ? |
| 30 | Already , both the top Republican contenders have backed down from their original pledge to rescind Mr Florio 's tax increases the minute they take office . |