Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gradually , as she lingered over her coffee , the sky became an indigo canopy and a thick layer of cloud moved stealthily in from the Adriatic to obscure the moon and blot out the stars . |
| 2 | He dreamed of a multitude of chandeliers , all lit up with candles , coming slowly down from the ceiling , while he and his sister Mary watched . |
| 3 | As soluble nitrate travels very slowly down from the surface into aquifers , present changes in water quality stem from changes in land use many years ago . |
| 4 | It was an exquisitely warm afternoon in Aswan-just the sort of day for which the swallows fly so far , When the Shah walked slowly down from the plane , looking drawn and exhausted , Sadat stepped forward to kiss him on both cheeks — despite advice from his officials that he should be more circumspect with the fallen King . |
| 5 | it 's set far enough back from the road , |
| 6 | He 's only back from the war two minutes and he 's put the Medical Officer of Health 's nose out of joint . |
| 7 | He started the engine at once and pulled impatiently out from the kerb , as if still trying to shake off that introspective question of his . |
| 8 | Indeed , Sombro was not long back from the town when he arrived at North Point and he appeared tired and wan as he looked up with those big eyes he inherited from the Labrador side of his lineage . |
| 9 | Seconds later , when he marched off at the interval , Gooch got another ovation and handshakes all round from the Australians . |
| 10 | Her mother was already clambering laboriously down from the seat beside the driver , displaying a lumpy mass of grey woollen stocking and woollen knickers in the process . |
| 11 | JUST along from the Corviniana was a quite different exhibition entitled Sztá-lin ! |
| 12 | We took the light out , just along from the stop , so it was good and dark . |
| 13 | You will find us 9 miles from York , 11 miles from Malton on the road from the A64 to Sheriff Hutton , just along from the Blacksmiths Arms and Elm Tree Antiques . |
| 14 | Laggan Locks , just along from the hostel , was very much the heart of the area for all our doings — and not just because it has a tearoom ! |
| 15 | Just along from the fish fingers . |
| 16 | ‘ Just in from the North and fresh as fish . ’ |
| 17 | SOME LATE news just in from the cutting edge of tabloid journalism . |
| 18 | ’ Not me , ’ I told her as I struggled painfully up from the pouch-seat . |
| 19 | And they came unto Jericho , which is just up from the Dead Sea . |
| 20 | Pushing hard back against the mountain , he spun backwards out from the rock , curling over in the air so slowly that he could watch , in slow motion , first the passing overhead of the dark clouds , then the mountains , the far side of the valley , the meadow , the cabin , and , at last , the lake red with mud . |
| 21 | As the cage descended , Tolonen raised a hand in greeting , but stayed where he was , just back from the others waiting there — maintenance crew , customs men and guards . |
| 22 | She had aimed to hit him in the eye , what else ; just back from the V.D. clinic . |
| 23 | The owner is standing behind Thor , just back from the platform . |
| 24 | at night Dassia is a bustling sort of place with pubs and bars on the main strip , just back from the beach turning on the light , turning up the music and really rocking away . |
| 25 | Today 's news will come as a blow for British Agriculture minister John Gummer , who is just back from the US where he had been fighting to prevent the breakdown of the talks . |
| 26 | Today 's news will come as a blow for British Agriculture minister John Gummer , who is just back from the US where he had been fighting to prevent the breakdown of the talks . |
| 27 | Just back from the South of France , Andrew thought jealously — together with York or Doncaster , such jaunts were forbidden pleasures for him , especially now that this new incubus had been fathered on him , all three were beyond possibility . |
| 28 | She is just back from the States where she was on-stage singer with the Cincinnati Ballet 's production of the folk ballet ‘ Sergeant Early 's Dream ’ , with musical partners The Chieftains . |
| 29 | I 'm just back from the railway station , where I have deposited in Left Luggage a small brown parcel containing one Smith & Wesson and two dozen rounds , and I have detoured on the way back to buy three more shirts , some underpants and some socks . |
| 30 | Cameron talked with Minerva , who was being magnanimously tolerant of her husband 's much-publicised affair with Nina Kenyon , and with Anne , who was well into the tertiary stage of her fourth marriage ( to Didier Bishopric , a society restaurateur ) and just back from the Betty Ford clinic after a spell of amphetamine dependency . |