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

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1 I , at seventeen , heard the heaviness in his lungs as he sighed , the heaviness in his voice as he fetched those few reluctant words up from the depths inside himself .
2 By providing money for so-called buy-back operations , in which countries either bought their own commercial debts back from the banks at deeply discounted levels or , alternatively , simply used the money as collateral when negotiating low-interest bond deals , a number of countries had been able to reschedule their own external obligations on easier repayment terms than had been agreed at the time when they were made .
3 They should get out and cut the trees back from the lines so they do n't have the problem .
4 In 1851 , which , with symbolic appropriateness , was the year in which a hungry urban population exceeded for the first time the population of the countryside , drainage-minded landlords up from the shires were able to carry away a wealth of interesting ideas from the Great Exhibition .
5 Bob was taken round the various barns which held the winter fodder and together he and George rode the most advantageous trails , which would get the ewes down from the heights most speedily .
6 Her background was a few rungs up from the Jenkinses and that elementary social fact helped to give her a poise in the face of his ever-increasing sureness .
7 The glow faded in mere moments , during which time the Doctor dropped into the corridor , snatching his hands back from the sides of his newly created tunnel with sharp gasps .
8 After bringing the horses in from the fields and putting feed in the stables for them , his next task was to bring all the sheep in close to the farm .
9 Prisms attached to spectacle frames , a sloping card marked with four targets — ; A , B , C , and D evenly spaced with the outer lines at least six inches in from the edges of the card , and a metre rule .
10 Prisms attached to spectacle frames , a sloping card marked with four targets — ; A , B , C , and D evenly spaced with the outer lines at least six inches in from the edges of the card , and a metre rule .
11 From this position he could not expect to be prominent going to the first bend , the clubhouse turn , and Shoemaker held him back in about eighth place , some four horses out from the rails , as the runners came past the stands .
12 Meanwhile , we give notice that we mean to bring the individual actors back from the wings later , because we believe that states and systems do not account for everything important in international relations .
13 As they left the Springall mansion and waited in Cheapside for an ostler to bring their horses round from the stables , Athelstan sensed Cranston was furious with him but the coroner waited until they had mounted and moved away from the house before stopping and giving full vent to his fury .
14 She scanned the vacancy-sheet ; most of their guests were regulars up from the provinces , and a few permanent residents .
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