Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] from [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problems mostly arose from lack of capital and only in a few cases had any action been taken — two had recently purchased houses in nearby villages for their sons and some had been able to purchase or rent some more land . |
| 2 | The keys crashed to the floor next to Gedanken ; the piece of paper followed , slowly fluttering from side to side like a snowflake . |
| 3 | Not out of the radio sets themselves , mind you , but — about a month after legalization — he flogged cassette tapes on ‘ How to keep a conversation going on CB ’ , with a follow-up manual listing good ‘ handles ’ ( mostly pinched from Lord of the Rings ) for Citizen Banders with absolutely no imagination . |
| 4 | And in the years of glut there is always a slatted wooden tray in some cool , dark attic , which the writer nervously visits from time to time ; and yes , oh dear , while he 's been hard at work downstairs , up in the attic there are puckering skins , warning spots , a sudden brown collapse and the sprouting of snowflakes . |
| 5 | In the indictment Bunyan was accused , among other things , of ‘ devilishly and perniciously abstaining from coming to Church to hear Divine Service ’ . |
| 6 | Well more misery for Forest another defeat more injuries less to go from strength to strength and we 'll be right back . |
| 7 | In 1754 Ramsay was again in Italy , where he remained for three years , developing the wonderfully delicate style of his maturity , and constantly drawing from life with all the avidity to learn of a student . |
| 8 | Women whose ovaries produce too much suffer from hair on the face and chest , which they find very upsetting . |
| 9 | The music was played by two musicians , Rolande and Ydrys , sitting cross-legged under the cart with a hurdy-gurdy , a reed-pipe , a drum and a shawm , all hidden from sight by a straw bale . |
| 10 | The haulier will not necessarily know from week to week what products are to be transported — if any — but must have a range of vehicles available to cover all eventualities . |
| 11 | The strategies naturally varied from case to case , but all addressed the broad goals outlined above and all included a publicity programme of meetings , brochures and media coverage . |
| 12 | In theory , the scheme is meant to help pupils who would otherwise be unable to do so to benefit from education at an independent school , but Janet Finch argues that past experience of the direct grant system ‘ would lead one to suppose that many beneficiaries of such a scheme will be middle-class children ’ .24 In 1986–7 about 24,500 pupils attended independent schools under the Assisted Places Scheme in England alone , and this transferred £43 million of taxpayers ' money to independent schools . |
| 13 | An all too common kind of crisis for community and primary care teams is that a vulnerable patient is suddenly discharged from hospital on a Friday afternoon without any formal referral or plan for aftercare . |
| 14 | Unlikely as that seems now , it must be remembered that in the early 1970s the private market was in a very bad condition and many developer builders were only rescued from bankruptcy by ‘ package deals ’ under which the DOE gave local authorities special loan sanctions in order to buy in whole estates of unsold private dwellings . |
| 15 | Among them was a young officer who was riding a mule ( which stubbornly stopped from time to time ) and roaring with laughter . |
| 16 | ‘ It is an achievement to play games at the moment , as we are literally living from hand to mouth . |
| 17 | Any batteries that do not come out should be gently moved from side to side to allow them to unhook . |
| 18 | What could have proved a disastrous appointment did , and Athletico were only saved from oblivion by the inspired choice of Reg Pybus as coach . |
| 19 | Most are malnourished , only saved from starvation by water and food provided en route by the Red Cross . |
| 20 | Griffin O'Neal , 27 , was only saved from jail after 24-year-old Lynn Oddo , the woman he beat up , pleaded with the court for mercy . |
| 21 | It took them five overs to score their first run and they were only saved from disaster by captain Allan Lamb . |
| 22 | His first , 11 weeks after the crash took place on December 20 when he was gently transferred from hospital by ambulance , strapped to a stretcher . |
| 23 | It 's author , John Godber , told me that working out how to stage the ski , the scenes on the slopes had been quite a headache for them , particularly as the set of course , has to be constantly moved from theatre from theatre as it tours round the country . |
| 24 | I am reduced to sitting staring out of the window with nothing much to look at but a young man , presumably a salesman or political canvasser , patiently going from door to door down the street . |
| 25 | The practical difficulties of laser-Doppler anemometry obviously vary from flow to flow ; sometimes it may be easy to mount a precision optical system around the flow , other times far from easy . |
| 26 | Francis Latham put the point yet more clearly : ‘ women are physiologically disqualified from contention with men in the political arena , not by virtue of any tyrannical law of man 's devising , but by reason of fixed and irrevocable decrees of nature which may not be violated with impunity ’ . |
| 27 | A general fining of the material and better sorting from east to west is the result . |
| 28 | The actual number of Greater London boroughs controlled by each party naturally varies from election to election and is strongly affected by the national political climate . |
| 29 | The Padre was very weak now , and could only move from place to place if someone helped him . |
| 30 | The larger eddies , which do play a role in the generation of the Reynolds stress , must be more characteristic of the particular flow , since the Reynolds stress distribution necessarily varies from flow to flow . |