Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | it 's set far enough back from the road , |
| 5 | He 's only back from the war two minutes and he 's put the Medical Officer of Health 's nose out of joint . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We took the light out , just along from the stop , so it was good and dark . |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | ‘ Just in from the North and fresh as fish . ’ |
| 12 | SOME LATE news just in from the cutting edge of tabloid journalism . |
| 13 | ’ Not me , ’ I told her as I struggled painfully up from the pouch-seat . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She had aimed to hit him in the eye , what else ; just back from the V.D. clinic . |
| 16 | The owner is standing behind Thor , just back from the platform . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In the second half of the 1850s the Ministry of Education abolished enrolment quotas , exempted the badly off from the payment of fees , readopted the principle of despatching promising scholars to western Europe for postgraduate training , allowed women to attend lectures , ended the practice of monitoring students ' off-campus behaviour , reintroduced contentious subjects like west European law and the history of philosophy , and appointed broad-minded officials to the headships of the empire 's educational districts . |
| 21 | yeah and he said oh and well I sure was lucky cos here comes a lift and he gets in , he goes right , he 's taken his prize jogs about fifteen yards and says bye thanks for the lift and he stood about fifteen yards further on from the street , there 's bits in it that is fucking funny , he 's made it rich and all this and he 's happy bloke , he get 's his girl friend |
| 22 | In the command post further back from the beach , Corporal Williams , the duty radio operator , was decoding a message which had just been received . |
| 23 | I have noticed that when older people put out chairs in preparation for a church meeting they will tend to place them in straight rows and arrange them further back from the speaker . |
| 24 | In some ways , we 're much further back from the starting line . |
| 25 | He got me out of the stream and a bit further back from the drop to our right . |
| 26 | One has the odd title of the Boulevard du B.A.B. , revealing that it has taken over the line of the old tramway , the Bayonne-Anglet-Biarritz ; the other , further back from the coast , is the N10 , once the crowded highway along which French motorists hurtled into northern Spain but now a gentler place to drive , the motorway having supplanted it . |
| 27 | A similar incident occurred with me in 1983 between Australia and Argentina from even further out from the goal-line , and on that occasion I felt Australia would definitely have scored a try but for a deliberate knock-on by the defenders and awarded a penalty try . |
| 28 | Although I met Theresa on the way back from erm school and she said Alec was at the doctors cos not the way back from school , way back from the library . |
| 29 | Position this about 12 to 15 inches behind the ball and just outside the line directly back from the target . |
| 30 | A couple , arm-in-arm , came slowly up from the direction of the Underground . |