Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] from the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I clamber up from the trackway on to the empty platform .
2 And the view should not be ruled out too summarily that all our desires grow up from the fact that certain things have been found immediately pleasurable .
3 Bones fly up from the ground all around them , magically assembling themselves into the massive skeleton of some huge , dinosaur-like beast .
4 Report back from the seminars
5 Report back from the seminars
6 Report back from the seminars
7 Its nostrils are placed at the ends of two extremities that grow out from the side of its head .
8 The boughs grow out from the trunk at nearly the same angle throughout the life of the tree and the sapling can be regarded as a geometrical model of the fully grown tree .
9 When I fly out from the nest over the moors to its great and awesome cliff and gyre on the winds out over the sea then can I call myself a Wrath eagle . ’
10 Sharp icicles fly out from the caster 's hand and strike the first unit or model in their path .
11 I eased my Way through the crowds that were watching Midwinter climb down from the platform .
12 The chill of the early morning was dispersing under the grey cloud base that spread in from the west .
13 The whole point of Lourdes comes out as you walk down from the centre of the town towards the river and the Cité Religieuse on the far bank .
14 Sometimes quite large ‘ solid ’ blocks break off from the flow , with the same kind of clean fracture , and then , since they are still very hot , continue to flow slightly !
15 As bishop of a major city Avitus was involved in court politics to an extent that Sidonius , cut off from the centre of Visigothic power in Clermont , was not .
16 Cut off from the mass of the people by race and language , the rulers also became increasingly acquisitive in terms of land .
17 Cut off from the Reich by the Polish Corridor these people felt themselves to be German and to be threatened by the new Polish state .
18 Not listening was always one of my faults and one of the reasons I so frequently found myself isolated in misunderstanding : like a careless rider , cut off from the company , alone and benighted for failing to pay attention to the prevailing agreements as to intention and direction .
19 In a crumbling mansion on the edge of a lake from which a mist constantly rises , Roderick Usher and his sister live out their lives cut off from the rest of the world .
20 But more importantly it is a good starting place for exploring the lesser known eastern valleys which are peaceful , quiet and cut off from the rest of the Lake District .
21 They both ate , trying not to think about being in the house together , cut off from the rest of the world .
22 The most obvious targets were the remaining northern provinces of Vizcaya , Santander , Gijón and Oviedo , cut off from the rest of the Republic in three directions by Nationalist troops and on the fourth side by the sea .
23 as if Pike was behind an imaginary glass wall , cut off from the rest of the Church .
24 I cut off from the lane up towards Great Coum and the Megger Stones .
25 The Jews were in exile after 586 BC and found themselves cut off from the temple .
26 At regional level , too , new sources of authority emerged ; in the coastal Basque provinces , cut off from the heartland of Republican Spain , the separate Basque Republic of Euskadi came into existence ; in Catalonia , where Companys reached an accommodation with the CNT , an anti-fascist Militia Committee ran affairs independently of Madrid ; and in October Aragon became an autonomous CNT fief administered by its own regional ‘ Council ’ .
27 Of course it is one thing to state baldly that modern Christians are often ineffectual in their witness and live in a privatised world , cut off from the mainstream of social life , but it is quite another thing to make out a case that it is so .
28 Tolkien was not by any means cut off from the mainstream of English poetry , though the qualities he valued were not surprise , the mot juste , verbal complexity , but rather a slow probing of the familiar .
29 The area became marginalised , cut off from the hub of business activity across the river .
30 On the contrary , I think it more likely that , cut off from the source of rationality , the Godhead itself , the Devil is evil but irrational .
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