Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] from a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , suddenly , a jay looks down from a hiding place in a lichened oak and slips away without breaking the silence : stealthy , cunning , typical of the inveterate egg thief . |
| 2 | Gillian Lacy and Roberto Mader 's Capoeira Quickstep is the most ambitious and also most disappointing of the collection , a ‘ fictional documentary ’ about the Afro — Brazilian dance-cum-martial art which sort of spins off from a relationship between a British girl and a Brazilian but meanders somewhat in sub-Terence Davies style without even coming up with much in the way of dance . |
| 3 | The end-point of the walkable , or sometimes scramble-able section of the Gorges is at a waterfall , where the water shoots out from a hole in the rock on the left and falls sixty or seventy feet into the stream . |
| 4 | One of the other things that leads off from a job analysis by finding out exactly what a person 's supposed to do is that you can start doing things like a personal training log , cashiers , cash sell this is a word this is real life example . |
| 5 | By his technique , by the force of words and theme , by the disciplined speed of his narrative , he draws us into a fiction which takes off from a foundation of known fact and recognisable truth . |
| 6 | She takes off from a field behind the hospital . |
| 7 | Country and Western music plays out from a pair of white speakers , perfectly complementing the queasy swell of the boat . |
| 8 | Intent and unafraid , Dr. Sylvia Earle never turns back from a challenge . |
| 9 | ‘ None of the electronic or automatic systems work , so each time you bowl , a man jumps down from a shelf behind the pins at the end of your lane , switches the light off , resets the pins , jumps back onto his shelf and switches the light back on ! ’ she said . |
| 10 | A muffled crackle splutters out from a walkie-talkie inside his jacket , and he pulls it out to log in . |
| 11 | It follows on from a £95m cash call this week by property company Great Portland Estates and news that legendary investor George Soros has launched a £500m property-buying joint venture . |
| 12 | It follows on from a £95m cash call this week by property company Great Portland Estates and news that legendary investor George Soros has launched a £500m property-buying joint venture . |
| 13 | The study , which follows on from a pilot study funded by ESRC , involves the Departments of Civil Engineering and Law . |
| 14 | This project , which follows on from a number of years of ESRC funded research in the same group , on the psychology of communication and relationships , aims to explore and to unify these two areas . |
| 15 | This task , which follows on from a programme covering these subjects , incorporates the strands of communication skills , behavioural sciences , ethics , and law in the assessment . |
| 16 | Hermes at the left end holds the winged horses of Athena 's chariot which she is mounting ; on the central slab another goddess , almost certainly Aphrodite , steps down from a chariot which faces the other way . |
| 17 | Half-way through BELVILLE bursts in from a closet or from behind a curtain . |
| 18 | It spans the Laxford River which comes down from a string of lochs alongside the Lairg road and is notable for salmon fishing . |
| 19 | Another half-hour 's walking brought me to Cow Dub where a stream thunders down from a lip of flowstone , crashing through a narrow tubular cavern to scour out a perfectly formed round pool below . |
| 20 | When she has created the right conditions , the light comes through from a source beyond her vision , with its own energy and life . |
| 21 | The passageway here splits into two , one branch leading to the engine sump where a cage lies jammed for ever , the other leading to where a small spiral stairway runs up from a hole in the wall , over the tunnel , to the engine room which , apart from a few acts of vandalism and the ravages of time , is very much as it was on the day it was left . |