Example sentences of "[adv prt] from the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | More and more monsters swarmed down from the glowing mountains . |
| 32 | In a move to tighten control of a far-reaching empire and to improve the group 's own image , Maurice and Charles Saatchi , credited with building up the company , have stepped down from the day-to-day running of the group . |
| 33 | With this as the acquired recording , it was exceedingly difficult — or so it seemed at the time — to slip down from the stress-filled beta-waves of everyday living , to those desired alpha-waves of mental quiet and healing . |
| 34 | This week , they play three nights at London 's Town & Country Club , which is n't bad , but it 's a high step down from the dizzy heights of packing out Wembley for several shows on the trot as they did five years ago when they were one of the biggest bands in Europe . |
| 35 | Above all , I look forward as the new Labour Party Treasurer to bringing the party membership fee down from the dizzy heights of eighteen pounds to the level which we in the trades unions know ordinary people can afford . |
| 36 | The dusky pink body is heavily patterned with golden-yellow spotted scales , this spotting diminishes in prominence as it progresses down from the dorsal area to the belly of the fish . |
| 37 | She swung herself down from the back door and went round to the front steps of the kiosk . |
| 38 | There are more ways to step up and down from the specially-made benches than you could possibly imagine , and , for the puny-armed , the well thought out choreography incorporates upper body work , too . |
| 39 | The capes are famous for a confused and ugly swell , and peculiar lumps of wind that crash down from the coastal peaks of the Taurus Mountains . |
| 40 | Strichen lies a little way down from the left shoulder of Scotland along which they travelled to reach Inverness . |
| 41 | Nowadays they 're holidaymakers ponytrekking … once they would have been shepherds riding down from the Welsh mountains . |
| 42 | The man who had shown me in reached a pewter tankard down from the Welsh dresser and filled it with champagne . |
| 43 | Could you repeat the bit about the insect-headed aliens gazing down from the spinning globules of light ? |
| 44 | He rubbed his eyes and peered down from the top bunk . |
| 45 | Robinson jumped down from the top bunk . |
| 46 | Mike Robinson looked down from the top bunk and saw Swain standing there . |
| 47 | Down from the top floor bounced the offspring of Mr and Mrs Beavis , the girls in nightdresses , the boys in nightshirts . |
| 48 | It also has the effect of raising the back edge so as to hide the joints at the bottom and provide a start for the graceful curve down from the top edge . |
| 49 | The heavy rain , for hundreds of years , has washed the rich chemicals , such as nitrogen and calcium , down from the top layer , or A horizon , into the lower layer , or B horizon . |
| 50 | I still had to get the hay down from the top byre to take to the cattle in the bottom byre on my sledge . |
| 51 | Civil Service have conceded fewer goals than any other team in the division , and had Howell not taken the decision to stand down from the top flight , he could have been elevated to the Scottish senior international training squad this summer . |
| 52 | There was a second figure , which they did n't see : high above them , Timothy Gedge gazed down from the cliff-top path . |
| 53 | Opposite the clock , angels and bishops stare moodily down from the Holy Trinity Column in what is now the middle of Red Army Square . |
| 54 | The cave was several hundred yards across and just as high , dimly lit by lamps that stretched down from the indistinct ceiling on impossibly long cables . |
| 55 | Either a spark had come down from the old fellow 's hole up there or him with hobnail boots had trod on er black powder and set it off and his hole went out underneath his feet . |
| 56 | ( 8 ) For the purpose of this rule : ( a ) pleadings shall be deemed to be closed 14 days after the delivery of a defence in accordance with Ord 9 , r 2 , or , where a counterclaim is served with the defence , 28 days after the delivery of the defence ; but in an action which has been transferred down from the High Court , pleadings are deemed closed 14 days from transfer . |
| 57 | Dot slid down from the high bed and sat on the carpet and looked at a wooden dolls ' house , a painted rocking horse , but she did n't touch . |
| 58 | A tattooed arm reaches down from the high cab — lovely , real arm , wonderful words ! — and I scale the high steps to sit with my feet on a coil of rope . |
| 59 | When he had dumped their two canvas bags on the ground , he reached up again to help her down from the high train . |
| 60 | She must get him on to his feet and down from the high moor before the impending storm . |