Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you would n't think so from the arguments we have . |
| 2 | Each dance should arise naturally from the context and reveal something about one or another or all the characters in reaction to a series of situations . |
| 3 | Until now he had never believed it to be true , that something as heavy as gold could fall naturally from the sky . |
| 4 | As he walked across to the aircraft — which by then had taxied towards the buildings — he says he saw a dog jump down from the cockpit , before the pilot . |
| 5 | He used almost völkisch language , claiming that the Romanians ( unlike the Hungarian , German and other minorities ) were ‘ autochthonous ’ : ‘ They did not come from elsewhere , they did not fall down from the sky ; they were born and lived here , in this land , and they defended it with their blood . ’ |
| 6 | Hawks may swoop down from the sky and carry one off . |
| 7 | Every day the Ethiopian planes may swoop down from the sky . |
| 8 | She 's in the basement watching ‘ the telly ’ ' — he picked out the words sarcastically — ‘ though she did glance away from the screen just long enough to tell me that it was her mother 's bingo night . |
| 9 | I do n't suppose I 'd get anything from libraries that I do n't know already from the Colour Supplement article , or the interviews . |
| 10 | Drains should ideally be laid in straight lines between inspection chambers and should always fall away from the house with the correct gradient to ensure that the flow through the pipe is fast enough to ensure solid matter is carried along . |
| 11 | If he was in a procession the other members of the procession still worried about his inability to walk a straight line and feared that at some point he would peel off from the file . |
| 12 | ( 3 ) A licensing board may consider any application made to it under paragraph ( b ) of subsection ( 2 ) above at any meeting of the board held not earlier than 14 days after the making of the application and shall affirm the provisional grant if the board is satisfied that the premises , if completed in accordance with the plan mentioned in that paragraph , will be and convenient for their purpose and that the said plan does not deviate materially from the site plan and description of the premises lodged under the said subsection ( 2 ) . |
| 13 | They would hang evenly from the shoulder seams . |
| 14 | Oxford Practice Grammar contains over a hundred double-page units with the exercises facing the explanations so that students can glance across from the exercises to the rules and back . |
| 15 | Prince Richard 's Private Secretary , Clive Fairbrother , watched his master sprint away from the aircraft towards him , resenting the way his glossy brown hair fell back smoothly after the wind ruffled it . |
| 16 | Had to stay , stay away from the windows . |
| 17 | One reason is that women , particularly in the Third World , are often not aware of the real dangers of contraception because health staff and pharmaceutical companies keep them in ignorance for fear of making them stay away from the clinic . |
| 18 | So if you are a die-hard player who ca n't stay away from the golf course during the winter months , why not try a golfing holiday on the Continent ? |
| 19 | He 'd play a couple of quiet rounds and then when it got hectic and everyone else wanted to be playing , he 'd stay away from the course and just hit a few balls in practice . |
| 20 | Often they would quarrel and he would stay away from the house for a while ; but he was never able to stay away for long . |
| 21 | ‘ By the way , could you stay away from the marsh at the top of the ten-acre field . ’ |
| 22 | She was able to will her longing into an unexamined haze but she could not stay away from the post office on Monday . |
| 23 | Think again — T J Rodgers , president and chief executive of Cypress Semiconductor Corp told a Congressional committee on Wednesday last week that there is no monolithic support for Clinton 's budget proposals — the government should not try to build information networks , but ‘ untangle the morass of bureaucracy and regulations ’ that prevent existing fibre optic networks from reaching homes , he said ; he called for deeper cuts in the budget deficit and the end of ‘ wasteful and unnecessary ’ government programmes ; ‘ Washington should stay away from the intricacies of high-tech competition … it should focus instead on the infrastructure of competition , ’ he said ; he also presented written comments criticising the Clinton plan from officials or directors of Amdahl Corp , Cisco Systems Inc , Conner Peripherals Inc and Sun Microsystems Inc . |
| 24 | ‘ You ca n't stay away from the wedding ! |
| 25 | To help them pick the 20 readers who will benefit most from the course , Pendle have drawn up a questionnaire . |
| 26 | The heart will benefit most from the kind of exercise that builds up stamina — the ability to keep going without gasping for breath . |
| 27 | They should benefit most from the system , as they are the information ‘ requirers ’ . |
| 28 | Road builders will benefit most from the government 's largesse . |
| 29 | The question they wish to answer is ‘ Which pupils will excel in this area , will make useful contributions or will benefit most from the opportunities which are in our power to grant ? ’ |
| 30 | It does grow less from the time her grown-up children leave the home and this crisis , which often happens quite early in life , often disturbs her very badly ; but still she does not see herself thrown into total idleness and her role of grandmother brings her fresh possibilities . |