Example sentences of "[adv prt] from [art] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such rifts are said , therefore , to have a half-graben structure with the main boundary listric fault forming a footwall , and the opposing downwarped crust forming a hanging wall leading down from a roll-over zone ( Fig. 4.9(B) ) . |
| 2 | One of her few friends in the movement , whom she used to meet at Lockharts in the Strand for a poached egg once a week , had come down from a mill town in Lancashire in 1916 with nothing but two brown paper parcels . |
| 3 | Now , suddenly , a jay looks down from a hiding place in a lichened oak and slips away without breaking the silence : stealthy , cunning , typical of the inveterate egg thief . |
| 4 | The late 1960s threw up extensive demands for public bodies to be more open and responsive to community groups and sectional interests ; the demand was for plan making to be a negotiable activity between interested parties , rather than a matter of technical decisions handed down from a monopoly elite in government . |
| 5 | It began counting down from a starting position of 30:00 . |
| 6 | Information on the necessary form of a component is first passed down from an assembly arrangement . |
| 7 | Finally Rezia throws the keys down from an upstairs window . |
| 8 | The beautiful barmaid waved down from an upstairs window . |
| 9 | There were no fewer than four courses of bricks at the base ( good old Victorian quality there ! ) and they remain , stepped down from the platform side to the railway side . |
| 10 | With the vehicles gone , Miguelito swung down from the cabin top . |
| 11 | The two assassins had joined the crew of the navy rescue expedition which had followed the escape pod down from the survey vessel from which it had been ejected , and they had been prevented from finishing off both their intended victim and the accidental witnesses only because of the timely intervention of a Yek patrol . |
| 12 | Rose listened , open-mouthed , and at the end of this recital she jumped down from the wicker basket and hugged Ruth all over again . |
| 13 | He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act . |
| 14 | A steep path cut down from the quarry edge to the meadow . |
| 15 | The draughtsman 's menu will contain keys which carry out the automatic " filtering " of geometric details down from the working space , through the spatial file , into the engineering file . |
| 16 | At the edge of the ribbed level of sidings squat a low cottage , three steps down from the cinder track ( 13 ) . |
| 17 | Below us sparkled the Garbh Uisge , bouncing noisily down from the melting snows over jumbled slabs . |
| 18 | The lapse was duly noted by the Stage Manager and no one was surprised to be summoned on stage at the ‘ half ’ for the evening show , and receive a dressing down from the Company Manager . |
| 19 | He could see by the dark light that came down from the night sky , a sky that glowed with vivid city lights , that on stands in nearby cages other eagles were listening to his story and staring at him silently . |
| 20 | Annie looked down from the first-floor drawing-room windows to the gaunt trees of Regent 's Park and said , ‘ It 's simply super . |
| 21 | Even here , some annual changes might be seen such as the amount of detritus that showers down from the ocean surface or the species of animal sheltering in the cave . |
| 22 | Having read a few of your articles I tried sighting the neck by looking down from the headstock end ( as you frequently suggest ) and the neck appears to be very curved , almost banana shaped ! |
| 23 | When he has good selective movements in his hemiplegic leg , he may be able to get down from the bath seat into the bath tub . |
| 24 | Downstairs a Disco will bring the tired and the weary in from the cattle drives and down from the cash tills. the Saloon will stay open late . |
| 25 | A simple to load paper tray is also situated at the front for easy access and the printed copy emerges face down from the paper path on the top of the machine . |
| 26 | A simple to load paper tray is also situated at the front for easy access and the printed copy emerges face down from the paper path on the top of the machine . |
| 27 | One of the first things to catch the visitor 's eye when starting down from the castle esplanade is a cannonball lodged in the wall of a house , believed to have been fired from the castle at Holyroodhouse in 1745 when anti-Jacobite forces on the Castle Rock were at odds with Prince Charles Edward at the lower end of the town . |
| 28 | They had returned on the late theatre train , and it had been most pleasant walking down from the railway station and along the seafront so late at night ; ah , to have a pretty girl by one 's side , and the touch of her lips on yours . |
| 29 | ‘ Welcome to Broadstairs , ’ announced Sir Thomas expansively as he stepped down from the railway carriage , flicking a practised hand towards a porter . |
| 30 | One evening Sigarup brought the rams and he-goats down from the mountain pastures and Śa kar went to take his place , tending the ewes and lambs . |