Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] from [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attempts throughout the day to coax an escaped owl down from the roof of a house have so far failed . |
| 2 | It 's expenditure out and then income in from the Government . |
| 3 | In all of this giving away of herself ( which can be taken in two modern senses ) , this revelation of a coarser character beneath the courtly exterior she tries to sustain , Margery follows the movement of the opening stanzas of the text down from the character of the courtly dame to the level of the townswoman , a stereotyped bourgeois Vxor , " Wife " : the label that seems to be given her by the letter " " V " alongside some of her speeches in the manuscript copy of Dame Sirith . |
| 4 | It 'd be crazy to sort of do a dive in from the sort of recuperative process . |
| 5 | Her hair down from the secret of her ears , |
| 6 | Millie is setting up two music stands and lugging her cello case in from the hall . |
| 7 | In addition , the Secretary of State has recently made an announcement on the decision to bring the high-speed link in from the east via Stratford rather than from the south . |
| 8 | That dying-duck look as he struggled to get his case down from the rack ! |
| 9 | A TEENAGER yesterday claimed he was beaten with a horsewhip sometimes while dangling upside down from a rope by his foster father . |
| 10 | A TEENAGER yesterday claimed he was beaten with a horsewhip sometimes while dangling upside down from a rope by his foster father . |
| 11 | I was tied into a sleeping bag and hung upside down from a tree overnight . |
| 12 | The bodies of the leaders were taken to Milan where they were hung upside down from a girder in front of a petrol station in Piazza Loreto . |
| 13 | In a sort of aperture she saw a white baby hanging upside down from a nail of light . |
| 14 | Nominated for two BAFTA Awards , WIDOWS was a critical and popular success turning assumptions about professional crime upside down from a woman 's point of view ( the widows ) . |
| 15 | When the caterpillar is fully grown it usually hangs upside down from a leaf or plant stem , and begins to pupate . |
| 16 | and the salt-cracked slipway down from the jetty . |
| 17 | The next afternoon , Matilda managed to get a rather sooty and grumpy parrot down from the chimney and out of the house without being seen . |
| 18 | Western leaders were content to rest on their laurels , convinced that Nato 's ‘ steadfastness ’ had been crucial in bringing the Communist bloc in from the cold , that Western prosperity had been enough to convince the East of the hollowness of Marxism . |
| 19 | He is to bring the men under his command in from the west . |
| 20 | The highlight of the whole tournament — almost irrespective of their performance on the field — will be SOUTH AFRICA 's emergence from the woods , a coming in from the cold which is generating a great excitement . |
| 21 | Somewhere on the outside was a frieze of armed horsemen ; and over the doorway in from the porch was a stone beam with animals in low relief on its outer face and , seated above it , two statues of goddesses ( or a goddess ) facing each other . |
| 22 | It 's a good idea to keep a couple of sacks of gravel over from the job , so you can fill ruts and top up bald patches as the drive wears and settles down . |
| 23 | to load our jeep up from the magazine |
| 24 | Hunter observed that ‘ … the whole viscera when all the Blood is press 'd out goes into a very little bulk , even the Liver will lose vastly of its bulk and in short the whole viscera will come into a small compass when they are well clean 'd and put into dry cloths ; you are then to go to the trunk of the Body and empty it of Blood as well as you can and press the Blood out from the Face , Hands , etc. as well as Arms , and the more Blood is pressed out the better ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ I am convinced that we need to push the British disarmament boat out from the shore . |
| 26 | You may find when you have the reply back from the employer that you have to suspend unemployment benefit . |
| 27 | Endill had been dragging an ironing-board back from a room where everything was half buried in the floor when , turning a corner , he bumped into a tall thin man who had appeared from nowhere . |
| 28 | He wondered , morbidly introspective in the cold light of dawn , whether his decision to see the next murder case through from the call to the scene of crime to the trial had really arisen from a desire to learn or merely from a craven wish to impress or , worse , to propitiate , his staff , to show them that he valued their skills , that he wanted to be one of the team . |
| 29 | Then Morton helped to carry the equipment in from the growler . |
| 30 | It was yet another of the advantages of belonging to the working class , like always knowing someone who would send her son round to unblock the sink , lay a carpet , get the cat down from the tree , lend you a van for the evening or sell you trainers and tracksuits cheap . |