Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] from the [noun sg] " 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 | Later I turned a page and uttered a gasp of stunned surprise that made Edward look up from the manuscript he scrutinized . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Her sister did not look up from the list of figures . |
| 14 | But I will not look up from the tray until I have it safely landed on the white plastic table . |
| 15 | to get to the menu you could work out from the menu |
| 16 | And finally you can look out from the balcony , high up in the White Cliffs , from which Winston Churchill viewed the Battle of Britain . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Trent watched the policemen drop down from the vehicle ; four of them . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | Free electrons can therefore flow in from the atmosphere and the earth , thus producing electrical phenomena . |
| 22 | However , cloud will quickly thicken and yet more rain will move in from the south west . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Either they must draw back from the spotlight and forfeit their privileges or pick their partners based on purely practical criteria . |
| 25 | I explained rapidly about the pillbox and sure enough we saw Cawthorne set out from the farmhouse , walking diagonally across the Paddock towards the fence . |
| 26 | Suddenly the flood-gates opened and Topaz let everything spill out from the day when she took Andrew 's horse to the moment when Amsterdam asked her to marry him . |
| 27 | It was about this time that I received a letter from Dr Liu Shih-Shun , Chinese Ambassador in Ottawa , who informed me that , with the imminent cessation of hostilities in Asia , the Chinese government would move back from the wartime capital of Chungking to the south central city of Nanking . |
| 28 | However , it seems that as far as I can make out from the correspondence , the Commissionaires are split in their opinion as to the legality of action of the German government . |
| 29 | I could see by the light of his torch that the cave was deep and spacious ; I could not make out from the beam of light its total dimensions , but clearly a man would have had no problem stretching out to sleep there . |
| 30 | The rain will gradually die down from the west , to leave only a few showers in the south-east by the end of the day . |