Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Hawks may swoop down from the sky and carry one off . |
| 4 | Every day the Ethiopian planes may swoop down from the sky . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If the hair should snap off from the tear , it may drift for many kilometres on the wind , falling slowly , and come to rest a long way down-wind from the vent . |
| 7 | It may snap off from the arm |
| 8 | Being weak , it will again burst osmotically , and reform further on … so a ‘ branch ’ will grow out from the fibre . |
| 9 | It is important to have that sort of relationship where someone can look in from the outside . ’ |
| 10 | Now let's look down from the bridge . |
| 11 | ‘ Someone might look over from the gate-towers and catch the gleam of it . |
| 12 | Below , the islands of Rum and Canna can be seen and on the horizon to the west you can look over from the hills of South Uist to Barra Head . |
| 13 | Later I turned a page and uttered a gasp of stunned surprise that made Edward look up from the manuscript he scrutinized . |
| 14 | Wycliffe did not look up from the statements and for some time Sara gave no sign that she had heard ; then she said : ‘ I 've been very stupid . |
| 15 | Often when attempting to explain some aspect of my studies to fellow students who were having difficulties , I would look up from the textbook we were sharing to see an expression of sheer disbelief pass across their faces . |
| 16 | Her sister did not look up from the list of figures . |
| 17 | But I will not look up from the tray until I have it safely landed on the white plastic table . |
| 18 | to get to the menu you could work out from the menu |
| 19 | And finally you can look out from the balcony , high up in the White Cliffs , from which Winston Churchill viewed the Battle of Britain . |
| 20 | Having said that , however , we can tease out from the textbooks of the sixties an implicit theoretical perspective that bore on groups and was designed to make sense of British politics as a whole . |
| 21 | To confirm this we have to pause and look back from the road to Aubeterre as it climbs the eastern slope of the valley of the Tude , just as Pound must have paused in 1911 ; and then we see that , whereas the modern town of Chalais is in the river bottom , old Chalais , a manorial village grouped round the gate of the château , does indeed stand on the ridge behind , so that the tops of the tallest poplars by the river wave just below the walls of the château . |
| 22 | But now TODAY can exclusively reveal that every time Hendry went to the table he feared that a lethal shot could ring out from the crowd . |
| 23 | Trent watched the policemen drop down from the vehicle ; four of them . |
| 24 | Ahidjo decided in 1981 that for reasons of health , he would step down from the presidency but remain chairman of the ruling party , the Union Nationale Camerounaise ( UNC ) . |
| 25 | EUROTUNNEL chairman Sir Alastair Morton is already planning for the moment he can step down from the £9 billion project . |
| 26 | Two rules must be obeyed when exploiting them : local cooling , close to the heat pump or its heat exchanger , must be no faster than heat can flow in from the surroundings ; and the source temperature must not be lowered more than a few degrees below its undisturbed level . |
| 27 | Free electrons can therefore flow in from the atmosphere and the earth , thus producing electrical phenomena . |
| 28 | However , cloud will quickly thicken and yet more rain will move in from the south west . |
| 29 | During the summer months I can usually get away with leaving my boat conveniently tied up to the pier , but only if I am at home to keep an eye on the weather : in Shetland , even in summer , a gale can blow up from the south east , causing a swell to set into the voe . |
| 30 | Either they must draw back from the spotlight and forfeit their privileges or pick their partners based on purely practical criteria . |