Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [adv prt] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Headward erosion is rapid at this point and regrading of the river starts to work back from the mouth . |
| 2 | Here , black has come up from the streets and into the drawing room ; overleaf , neutral tones assert themselves . |
| 3 | Once a call has come through from the police the team initiates a ‘ cascade call ’ system where say , one person is responsible for telephoning six other team members . |
| 4 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 5 | The example of the police radios shows the relative permanence of being allocated a piece of spectrum — radios and other broadcasting equipment , whether for entertainment or communication , are designed to sort out what it wants to pick up from the rest of the signal . |
| 6 | It certainly was a disgusting display from a man who has bowed out from the game very publicly . |
| 7 | Mrs Brooks , forty-three , has moved up from the role of president of US operations to overall president and chief executive officer of the company , a newly created post . |
| 8 | It is undoubtedly a good thing that royal reporting has moved on from the tradition of deferential reverence in which James Whitaker first learned his trade . |
| 9 | Verily , the game has moved on from the days when Bobby Locke could , for instance , win seven tournaments in his baptismal year on the US circuit , and four Open Championships on this side of the Atlantic , and yet virtually never feel the need to depart from his habitual draw . |
| 10 | In just a year , Barratt 's has turned round from a £106 million loss to an £11,300,000 profit . |
| 11 | Anyone who has visited a newspaper office in the last five years with expectations from cinematic memories of Citizen Kane or who has struggled back from the newsagent on a Sunday morning with a sample of what is laughably offered as a ‘ leisurely read ’ will know that much has changed . |
| 12 | This is afterwards , when he has got up from the couch , when he 's making a date for the next appointment and putting on his overcoat in the hall , returning to his ordinary guarded self before he walks out on to the street . |
| 13 | Cascade is not so demure , proffering itself to anyone who cares to look up from the road — an many do . |
| 14 | ‘ Look , lady , nothing about you has measured up from the beginning . |
| 15 | After a few hours ' driving , we stop by a small lake brimming with clear water which has tumbled down from the escarpment through dense forest . |
| 16 | In recent years the evidence for the health benefits of fibre , or ‘ roughage ’ as it used to be called , has grown so strong that it has filtered through from the medical journals and is now well known to the British and American public . |
| 17 | Just an hour later tory hopeful , John Taylor began his campaign with top level backing from Health Minister , William Waldegrave , visiting a old people 's home which has opted out from the local authority . |
| 18 | Television came in the wake of other consumer durables : a vacuum cleaner and a boiler for the washing — once used to cook a lobster my father has brought back from the Highlands where he 's been on a spell of painting stations that will be closed by the Beeching plan a decade later . |
| 19 | In 1856 he exhibits on his lawn a stuffed crocodile he has brought back from the East : enabling it to bask in the sun again for the first time in 3,000 years . |
| 20 | But when he comes to the foot of the mountain and sees the worship of the calf for himself , we hear the sound of his anger too , and see him smashing the tablets of stone that he has brought down from the summit inscribed with God 's torah . |
| 21 | IN THE first part of this book Michael Shallis gives an interesting non-technical account of how modern physics has gone on from the common-sense notion of time to a whole series of fundamental changes . |
| 22 | In the Auvergne , the major agriculture/conservation conflict is clearly in the plains , especially the extensive limagne north of Clermont , where intensive cereal and crop production has taken over from a former bocage ( hedge and pasture ) landscape . |
| 23 | But perhaps the machine has taken over from the individual . |
| 24 | Saints will be fired up under new boss John McClelland , who has taken over from the sacked Alex Totten . |
| 25 | The Norther Woodworking and DIY Exhibition has taken over from the Northern exhibition that was held annually , later in the year , in Leeds and at Calderdale . |
| 26 | It has taken over from the Appeal committee the task of raising money to support the teaching of Law in Somerville . |
| 27 | The Hand of Gooch has taken over from the Hand of God Maradona 's — in sporting legend . |
| 28 | THE 18-month-old Young Vic Youth Theatre has fought back from the threat of funds-starved closure to launch new season with Brecht and Weill 's The Threepenny Opera . |
| 29 | A MOTHER who tragically lost two daughters in separate accidents last night told how her third daughter has fought back from the brink of death . |
| 30 | I glance , speculatively , towards the window , where more bad weather has blown in from the North Sea . |