Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] from the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 As the froth turns in from the sides and the coffee begins to rise in the pot , it is removed from the heat and a little is poured into each cup to distribute the froth .
2 The sound of bird song drifts down from the trees , and butterflies flutter through the still early evening air .
3 It is built up as it ‘ gathers up from the influences of the environment the demands which that environment makes upon the ego and which the ego can not always rise to … . ’
4 A friendly palm flashes up from the shadows , like a pink glove .
5 Nearing the Sandaig River , which rushes down from the mountains and passes beneath the road to enter the Sound , gated forest roads lead down to the beach where Gavin Maxwell had a cottage he called Camusfearna and wrote his world best-seller about his life there with the sea otters he admitted to his home as companions .
6 Landmark rises up from the ashes
7 The curriculum , based on the 5–14 Programme , follows on from the experiences the children have had in earlier years .
8 It also follows on from the steps already taken within the Institute to cater for specialisms , with the establishment of the Tax , Financial Management and Information Technology Faculties .
9 Precipitation over the ocean is low , in volume probably exceeded five or six times by the fresh water that pours in from the rivers ( Rudels , 1987 ) , locally diluting the surface layer .
10 At a corner table , three men and an ample woman in an apron played cards noisily , the slap of the cards punctuated by bursts of virtuoso coughing , that cavernous café cough which echoes up from the boots .
11 The akroteria included mounted Amazons , a theme which carries on from the metopes .
12 Even the railway has charm as it curves on a fine viaduct where the River Finnan comes down from the mountains to enter Loch Shiel , a long and narrow sheet of water passing through high portals to reach green pastures after a serpentine course of seventeen miles .
13 A small river runs into th sea at one side , but on the other there is a large expanse of grassland which runs down from the walls almost to the sea .
14 He could recognize their trades from the clothes they were wearing — dyers , carpenters , wheelwrights , masons , stevedores up from the docks , and several cordwainers : the spikes in their hands looked like daggers .
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