Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Bean got down from the cab , grinning happily . |
| 2 | He got down from the cab . |
| 3 | The driver got down from the cab and walked slowly down the platform and disappeared through a solid wooden door . |
| 4 | He got down from the wall and walked on . |
| 5 | In Bawiti , the main village of the oasis , Salah got down from the bus and waved us after him . |
| 6 | ‘ Christ , Piper , that 's all we need , the bloody Navy ! ’ burst out Taff as two sailors got down from the jeep and started to unload their gear . |
| 7 | There 'll be nobody in at this hour ! ’ he repeated loudly , to the men behind as he got down from the jeep . |
| 8 | She got down from the jeep , straightened her dress and headed back towards the barn . |
| 9 | He got down from the jeep and walked into the villa , his shirt crumpled , and his footsteps weary . |
| 10 | The young officer got down from the train and went into the station building . |
| 11 | Measuring applause does not reveal that the movie was memorable for the woman in the third row because the building on screen reminded her of where she went to school and all those childhood memories came flooding back intercut with the film while the auditorium gently shook as an underground train passed beneath and cigarette ash fluttered down from the balcony in the projector beam . |
| 12 | When I got in from the airport — yesterday , give or take a week — the flat felt lightly dishevelled , hurriedly lived-in , as if the cleaning-lady 's efforts had been briskly cancelled or mussed . |
| 13 | ‘ Someone got in from the sea-wall . |
| 14 | ( IBM never did and probably never will do anything without proper training , planned in from the beginning . |
| 15 | With that , he hopped down from the rock , leaving its previous occupant free rein over the throng . |
| 16 | It said ‘ do not go on the grass ’ , translated literally from the Norwegian — somehow the story does n't work so well in English . |
| 17 | Replacing Norman Lamont at the Treasury with Kenneth Clarke , drafted in from the Home Office , may improve the government 's image . |
| 18 | It said that equal treatment applied only from the date when the European Court made its ruling . |
| 19 | The theme continues with four bars made entirely from the cell ( part of the reversal of the original cell ) , concluding with an exact repetition of Example 12 . |
| 20 | As it was , such girls as fancied themselves would leave their cubicle doors open , in the hope that tantalizing glimpses of leg and breast and buttock might be seen through the high and smoky glass , and once Clara , taking advantage of the convention that they were unobserved , walked the whole length of the changing room draped only from the waist down by a small towel , on the pretext of borrowing a safety pin . |
| 21 | At Carole 's insistence they had climbed the long metal ladder which led inside from the roof of the nave to the top of the tower : Henry went first , Amaranth second ; by some accident of fate , David followed on her heels , leaving an indignant Carole to bring up the rear . |
| 22 | Five wickets toppled for 65 in the lunch-to-tea period , the first three to a fiery Malcolm , who steamed in from the Nursery end and seemed to think he was Waqar . |
| 23 | Troops loyal to the breakaway faction , led militarily from the town of Nasir , on the Ethiopian border , by Cdr Riek Machar , are now on alert expecting an attack from the town of Malakal ‘ at any time ’ , Dr Akol said . |
| 24 | The late evening sun slanted in from the west . |
| 25 | Yet in the matter of the primacy , which entailed the most extensive ecclesiastical power in western Europe apart from that of the papacy , he fought stubbornly from the beginning to the end of his archiepiscopate against every papal or local obstacle to the exercise of this power . |
| 26 | Kathleen moved slowly from the doorway and shook her head , without speaking . |
| 27 | It is fair to say that the disposals ranged widely from the good to the very poor . |
| 28 | Trentham rose slowly from the top of the pulpit and began to descend the stone steps with his hands held high above his head . |
| 29 | He rose slowly from the chair . |
| 30 | The black walls of an enormous sprawling house rose menacingly from the rank weeds and thorns and , as Cleo had noticed , a thin reed of smoke was seeping from one of the many narrow chimneys . |