Example sentences of "[adv prt] from the [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | D'Aubigny , however , came down from the dais and shook Agrippa 's hand vigorously before allowing the doctor to introduce both my master and myself . |
| 2 | This may sound harsh , but it seems to me that when we lost our empire our eyes came down from the horizon and looked at our feet . |
| 3 | She slid joyfully down from the bed and hopped across the cold carpet to the window . |
| 4 | Nearing the Sandaig River , which rushes down from the mountains and passes beneath the road to enter the Sound , gated forest roads lead down to the beach where Gavin Maxwell had a cottage he called Camusfearna and wrote his world best-seller about his life there with the sea otters he admitted to his home as companions . |
| 5 | At times my sleepy little daughter was brought down from the nursery and stood on a stool while John draped pieces of material on her and showed me how he wanted the costume move and flow , and so help to illustrate what he wanted to express and convey to an audience . |
| 6 | Susan made him climb down from the organ and walk over to her , but his uncoordinated limbs reminded her too much of the zombies in Corin Santangelo 's horror Dream Eyeball Gougers from Italy . |
| 7 | A switchback rush as the path dipped down from the field and then up into the wood , and she was again whizzing towards the gate leading to the next field . |
| 8 | Look down from the viewpoint and see the terraced land — minute cultivated pocket handkerchiefs . |
| 9 | That morning Dad told his favourite story again , the story of his drive along the coast with Kay , only this time he took it one stage further , down from the cliffs and into the house . |
| 10 | Several stranded passengers looked on as the driver stepped down from the cab and was arrested . |
| 11 | Emily climbed down from the cab and stood looking uncertainly around her , World 's End was a far worse place than she could ever have imagined . |
| 12 | The driver got down from the cab and walked slowly down the platform and disappeared through a solid wooden door . |
| 13 | The moon , I thought briefly , had come down from the sky and was dancing about in the wood not far ahead . |
| 14 | Hawks may swoop down from the sky and carry one off . |
| 15 | People were climbing down from the truck and seemed to be forming another queue . |
| 16 | Eye-witness Maureen Darwin , who was waiting to board one of the US-bound jumbos , said : ‘ It was as if a giant unseen hand had come down from the heavens and just lifted the planes up and across the tarmac . |
| 17 | A shuttle bus operates to the hotel 's reserved section of beach at San Maria , which is accessed via 70 steps down from the road and has a beach bar . |
| 18 | On being told that the men still unaccounted for could not be contacted by the trapped men , the Manager asked for a volunteer to go down from the surface and search inwards from the main shaft . |
| 19 | Wednesday , I 'd got Michael outside in the pushchair , coat on and I think I 'd just come down from the loo and I saw the car pull up I quickly ran and got me coat on oh I , I 'll come with you she said , so she come shopping with me . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's not very often that I come down from the pulpit but I feel this would be a genuinely worthwhile exercise , ’ he said . |
| 21 | He said this quite casually , then stepped down from the pulpit and made his way to the centre of the altar once more . |
| 22 | At last , with Greg 's help , they managed to get him on to a stretcher to which he was firmly secured with nylon strapping so that it was virtually impossible for him to move , then the stretcher was carefully lifted down from the jig and into the waiting ambulance . |
| 23 | The beds in the dormitory pull down from the wall and have hard plastic mattresses . |
| 24 | ‘ Now , get down from the wall and come here . |
| 25 | He got down from the wall and walked on . |
| 26 | It came and went in swirling waves that rushed down from the ceiling and swallowed her up . |
| 27 | A white waterfall of plaster burst down from the ceiling and slapped and pattered all over him . |
| 28 | Dust floated down from the ceiling and the lights flickered . |
| 29 | Oh there was a tremendous variety , but then there were all the same in , erm you look at the er the three light fitting er it hangs down from the ceiling and has three branches out from it and it either has three lights hanging down or three hanging upwards , er with four ordinary bulbs in or candle bulbs in and shades , sometimes they have four , erm , there 's still an awful lot of those about and any lighting shop you look in you 'll still see plenty of those er and yet they 've got a tremendous number of disadvantages , one thing , a lot of them got glass shades , if you break one shade three year 's time you might as well throw away the fitting because you ca n't get another one er , and erm it 's a design that does n't , it does n't lend itself to giving a good lighting in a room at all er , it they , they harsh glassware , the edges of the glass during all round the room and that sort of thing |
| 30 | He climbed down from the litter and the Assyrian conducted him not to the little courtyard but through the house to an upper room , whose high windows faced north to catch the wind . |