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Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adv prt] from [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	He says that at the beginning of the relationship he wrestled with himself , knowing that he should back off from Mandy .
2	In case someone should come back from church early .
3	However , business lunches may crop up from time to time — and also evening invitations which involve dining at restaurants .
4	I can not conceive that the pathologist will trouble to look there for a puncture mark and indeed , prior to that eventuality , it does n't seem likely that the emergency team of paramedics they 'll send out from Brighton General will be well enough acquainted with the action of this drug to hit upon the right antidote in time to prevent her from expiring . ’
5	Peter erm you 'll see around from time to time , he does all the design stuff erm and Christine erm looks after all the hangings and and stuff .
6	Some might set off from observations like these to construct a formal system which would provide different representations for the different types of non-linguistic referents ( beings or situations or things ) for which , logically , the various phrases could be used in our own or some other possible world .
7	I 'll get back from work and one of our boys is just getting up , or another day they 'll all be just sat there , and you 'll find all the bread 's gone .
8	I might not always be there exactly when you want me , but I 'll check in from time to time .
9	Anyway , look I 'll find out from Bob about this restaurant and see if there 's a possibility that it might be worth booking before I go .
10	The ziggurat of Ur was originally built so that their god could step down from heaven into a room at the top of the structure , according to ancient mythology .
11	Sir James , who is due to retire shortly , could take over from May 1984 the task of director general of ESA , the organisation that coordinates the space activities of 11 West European nations .
12	The fact is I 'm looking for someone who one day could take over from Morgan .
13	To men who lived on what they could pick up from articles and reviews , the ultimate weapon implied more than lack of a showcase : it implied starvation …
14	But said that they went on Tuesday evening they had some people over and they were looking we were gon na go for a meal in Chorley er they 'd come over from Grantham , and they were going over on the night on the night ferry , on night boat from Hollyhead .
15	Well he 'd come up from Totnes this morning .
16	I 'd been fast asleep when he 'd come in from work the night before .
17	I 'd come in from school and he would n't say hello to me .
18	Straight away after he 'd come back from work !
19	He must have heard that I 'd come back from Ireland .
20	And this man said that he was a lay reader , and that he 'd retired , he 'd come back from Australia , and he though that he would like to help out in the parish .
21	The doctor 's telephoned twice and said as how if you were n't back by ten , he 'd drive down from London . ’
22	We just used to play at weekends and he 'd drive down from Manchester !
23	Taylor joked : ‘ I 'm not certain that , with a three-day get-together for England games , he could get back from Japan . ’
24	That 's all Bernard could find out from Al-Makesh . ’
25	Okay let's move on from language then .
26	For example , post-puberty is the time when peer group friendships may take over from parents as the major influence .
27	‘ Are you interested in the actual fishing that used to go on from Lowestoft ?
28	Yes the tinkers used to come up from Blair Gowrie to do that long ago .
29	She also meet him m met him at lunchtime , because the steam coach used to come out from town , and bring the business men , the wealthier one , out .
30	I invite , when we walk back from school erm when she first came to live round there , and er I used to walk back from school with her sometimes and say , would you like a cup of coffee ?