Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've taken the cottage on from the Russells , have n't you ? ’ |
| 2 | Attempts throughout the day to coax an escaped owl down from the roof of a house have so far failed . |
| 3 | It 's expenditure out and then income in from the Government . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It 'd be crazy to sort of do a dive in from the sort of recuperative process . |
| 6 | Her hair down from the secret of her ears , |
| 7 | Millie is setting up two music stands and lugging her cello case in from the hall . |
| 8 | The Moebius Strip stands on the southern bank of the Grand Canal about a kilometre along from the Baratha Arcade , between the Church of the Directed Panspermia and a crustacean restaurant . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Jack had to fill the coal scuttles , Kevin to bring in the logs , Aengus had to roll yesterday 's papers into sausage-like shapes which would be used for lighting the fires later , Gerry , who was meant to be the animal lover , had to take Oswald for a run in the park , and see that there was something on the bird table in the garden , and Ronan had to open the big heavy curtains in the front rooms , take the milk in from the steps and place it in the big fridge and brush whatever had to be brushed from the big granite steps leading up to the house . |
| 11 | That dying-duck look as he struggled to get his case down from the rack ! |
| 12 | ‘ Yeah , and they 'll get a chef in from the Savoy an ’ all , I suppose . ’ |
| 13 | and the salt-cracked slipway down from the jetty . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He is to bring the men under his command in from the west . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They represent a viable spin off from the THORP project control and instrumentation activities . ’ |
| 21 | to load our jeep up from the magazine |
| 22 | Burning of the Dicranopteris , which acts as a nutrient-conservation system , leads to its shooting out from the rhizomes but trees can not get established . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ I am convinced that we need to push the British disarmament boat out from the shore . |
| 25 | You may find when you have the reply back from the employer that you have to suspend unemployment benefit . |
| 26 | Lucky Town has a few reasonable ballads and the odd image strong enough to resist the insistent undertow of formula Boss : a soldier back from the Gulf waking from a dream in which the souls of the dead ‘ rise like dark geese into the Oklahoma skies ’ . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Then Morton helped to carry the equipment in from the growler . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The pale middle-aged skipper emerged from the bowels of the ship as the second mate , another young lad , ticked the engine over from the wheel house . |