Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] [adv prt] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | One researcher has suggested that they may be able to detect the very low frequency vibrations that are created in the water by waves and reflected back from the ocean floor , an echo-location system similar in principle to that used , at the other extreme end of the frequency scale , by bats . |
| 2 | He rubbed his eyes and peered down from the top bunk . |
| 3 | The outline of your notes should be based on the syllabus or programme of the subjects and built up from key words abstracted from textbooks and other writings on the topics concerned . |
| 4 | The girl finished stacking the guide books and slipped out from behind the desk . |
| 5 | She had drifted unhappily around the estate , dragging her feet and shrinking back from the noisy pack of children which romped around the gardens . |
| 6 | There is a strong tradition in philosophy which holds that we start from knowledge of our own sensory states and build up from there . |
| 7 | Bond 's technical wizard Q ( Desmond Llewellyn ) and new assistant Eve Barker , from BBC 's Born Kicking , realise the security implications and come out from the shadowy world of espionage to help publicise them . |
| 8 | The leaf-cutting ants of South America build vast underground nests and set off from them , day and night , in long columns to demolish trees , removing every shoot , leaf and stem , section by tiny section and transporting them all back to their underground chambers . |
| 9 | Jones served as Deputy Team Manager for four years and took over from Mike Turner in 1989 . |
| 10 | I lifted John 's head carefully with both hands and slipped out from beneath it . |
| 11 | Yes er a physical assessment er takes place , they 're given er a medical , eyesight , hearing tests and going on from that er er a one day assessment in the actual use of firearms takes place before they are actually selected to er attend a preliminary course of two weeks duration . |
| 12 | The findings of a recent sociological study , based on retrospective reflections of former ‘ flak helpers ’ , then fifteen- or sixteen-year-olds and called up from their schools from the beginning of 1943 to assist in the manning of anti-aircraft batteries , suggest that the ‘ Hitler myth ’ was in rapid decline from 1942–3 onwards . |
| 13 | The unusual size was chosen to give more space to the visuals and to stand out from the standard A4 size so common in offices . |
| 14 | Entering it he could imagine her sitting there in the summer days and evenings , working on the papers which she occasionally contributed to ornithological journals and looking up from time to time to gaze out over the headland to the sea and the far horizon , could see again that carved , weather-browned Aztec face with its hooded eyes under the grey-black hair , drawn back into a bun , could hear again a voice which , for him , had been one of the most beautiful female voices he had ever heard . |
| 15 | ‘ Please help the Society to become self-sufficient and able to train more teachers so that we can offer classes in more locations and take over from those teachers who are waiting to hang up their leotards and tights ’ . |
| 16 | There was a little tentative transit-taking on board some yachts , but most dispensed with esoteric racing rites and held back from the melee to claim clean air and water . |
| 17 | erm but essentially now I 've discussed with him , as I mentioned in my er plan , er the intention is to meet anybody who wants musical services and find out from them precisely what er they really need . |
| 18 | She did not beg her , as Cati did — Rosa had heard her — to help her be good , help her to be pure , and never have dirty thoughts or put her fingers in dirty places ; instead she fixed on the amber doe 's eyes that had gushed , above the hilt of a sword , which was studded with bright glass stones and stuck out from the statue 's brocade costume . |
| 19 | I could not speak to anyone , but when the bridge players saw me they threw down their cards and jumped up from the table . |