Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | That demanded constant attention , and yet the Prime Minister must also be able to stand back from the pressure of events and think about the future . |
| 32 | Er the home office really did n't know what they were talking about they gave these two models of the unpaid volunteer er no uniform , no training , no powers , to come out from the community work with the community under the eyes and ears of the police . |
| 33 | Billy Graham like all such evangelists called for people from the congregation to make an immediate decision and to come out from the crowd ; and Ramsey wrote that the call for an immediate decision had danger because the mind could be stifled in the process and this could bring a later revenge in scepticism and indifference . |
| 34 | Erm yeah so so so you might be able to find out from the institute |
| 35 | Practice varies , and it is good practice to find out from the beginning in order to avoid unpleasant surprises at a later date . |
| 36 | ‘ I involved myself by phoning the hotel to find out from the boss what was going on . |
| 37 | Well , I am quite willing to find out from the City Council Officers after this programme what the numbers are , if that 's the issue you want explored , and we 'll come back to you with the precise details . |
| 38 | Error comes in if one over-interprets the relevance of these conclusions , by forgetting the artificial constraints of the experiment and instead assuming that in real life , outside the laboratory so to say , such changes involving only a single variable can actually take place ; that it is a simple matter to extrapolate back from the artificiality of laboratory isolation to the complex , rich interconnectedness of the real world . |
| 39 | It is this incredible flexibility that allows us to juggle page layouts in just a few minutes and produce a fresh piece of artwork each time rather than wait hours , even days , for the re-worked page to come back from the artist 's studio . |
| 40 | Tony took the overdose on Sunday night , at around the time when his father , his father 's girl friend and her son were due to come back from the pub . |
| 41 | It always feels like an admission of failure to come back from the Continent and have nothing to show for it . |
| 42 | For a moment she wanted to rebel , to pull back from the brink even at this stage of the game . |
| 43 | In a television address , he called on deputies to pull back from the brink . |
| 44 | In a television address , he called on deputies to pull back from the brink . |
| 45 | The idea , according to one report , was for the capital 's defenders to surrender their arms to the UN , for the Serbs to keep theirs but to pull back from the city , and for the UN to create a ‘ security belt ’ between . |
| 46 | The parade I had to lead down from the station to the beat was much longer on nights . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | The calculated , dictated fairness that the ration book represented went on into the new decade , and when we moved from Hammersmith to Streatham Hill in 1951 there were medicine bottles of orange juice and jars of Virol to pick up from the baby clinic for my sister . |
| 49 | It did show excellent character to bounce back from the start … one plus point from the first half . |
| 50 | The time taken by the sound of each click to bounce back from the rock to the bird , enables the swiftlet to judge just how far away it is from the rock wall ahead . |
| 51 | In terms of short-term economic measures , the main thrust of government policy was to drain off from the economy excess money which was fuelling inflation , contributing to constant shortages and frustrating efforts at economic control . |
| 52 | Some members of the European Community are anxious to hurry on from the ERM to Economic and Monetary Union . |
| 53 | But soon it might be depressing to look down from the Topping . |
| 54 | This kind of planting can be dull in summer , so Jenny and Michael planted clematis to sprawl over from the border behind , the rich colouring of C. viticella ‘ Etoile Violette ’ contrasting with the dull bronze conifers . |
| 55 | ‘ Oh yes , ’ he said , not even bothering to look up from the menu . |
| 56 | Cascade is not so demure , proffering itself to anyone who cares to look up from the road — an many do . |
| 57 | His wife , not deigning to look up from the page , smiled to herself slightly . |
| 58 | It is just as likely to draw back from the hole . |
| 59 | But although there was ample room lengthways for sitters to draw back from the blaze sufficiently for comfort , there was less space broadways-on , so that the pairs had to sit fairly close together — which suited Alexander Ramsay very well , for he shared a bench with Mariot . |
| 60 | I would like them both to go back from the month of June . |