Example sentences of "[adv prt] from the [noun] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have seen it come down from the sky with a noise like thunder , and I have seen within it the bodies of those who were Too Late ! ’ |
| 2 | The present owner of Miss Havisham 's house told of a fisherman she had met in Broadstairs one day who remembered ‘ Old Charley a-coming flying down from the cliff with a hop , skip and jump , with his hair all flying about ’ . |
| 3 | Some of the older blokes , they come out , and they started fighting as well ! ( laughter ) One bloke come down from the flats with just a pair of trousers and a vest on and he started having a go ! |
| 4 | Then fear overcame curiosity and he scrambled down from the tree with such haste that he skinned his knees and gouged a long deep gash along the inside of his forearm . |
| 5 | In her plain blue suit she came down from the Clubhouse with two of the owners who seemed to want to be near the horses at ground level . |
| 6 | It was as if Moses came down from the mountain with the Ten Commandments to find Christ and the disciples standing in the crowd . |
| 7 | After hours of gruelling clearing-up work Duncan leapt lightly down from the van with the words ‘ I enjoyed that — I 'm looking forward to next year . ’ |
| 8 | At Teheran airport they came down from the plane with Koreans in their hands . |
| 9 | When Moran came in from the field with Michael he was in high good humour . |
| 10 | I 'll look at the cricket scores and pretend I 'm some old member in from the shires with a striped blazer and a pink gin in his fist . |
| 11 | Only now has she come in from the cold with her eleventh book being published by Collins ( at £10.95 ) . |
| 12 | Elise Fox was a woman who prided herself on her ability to deal with crisis , but at eleven o'clock that Saturday night she still lay limp on the sofa in the flat , looking utterly shattered when her young sister came in from the kitchen with yet another pot of strong black coffee . |
| 13 | Well , your mother came rushing in from the car with a rare display of energy and snatched it from the fellow 's hands . |
| 14 | He came in from the scullery with the coal bucket in one hand and in the other a fat metal cylinder . |
| 15 | I am hot and sticky from my drive , but the scent of lilac drifts in from the garden with the sound of blackbirds , and within a few minutes I feel much at home . |
| 16 | It was quite soon after the terrible motor accident that had crippled him for life , and she had just come in from the garden with a bunch of flowers for him . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's out ! ’ the voice floated through from the kitchen with a smell of fresh chips and hot beans . |
| 18 | He was particularly adept , this one , at stopping a forward bursting through from the line-out with a startling iron-hard thrust from his stump as he pulled him on to it with the other … |
| 19 | The purely Chinese came over from the mainland with Chiang Kai-Shek . ’ |
| 20 | She had come over from the east with her Arab mother , who , once in Britain , had married a stranger in order to stay — rather like buying a spare part to save one 's life . |
| 21 | ( I prefer to gently lever them off from the underside with a small screwdriver ) . |
| 22 | Ungainly and waddling on land , swans swim gracefully , taking off from the water with ponderous flapping to sail majestically through the air . |
| 23 | The officials who sent them off from the ports with the loaded railway-wagons gave them rations for the number of days which the grain would in normal times take to its destination . |
| 24 | I walked up from the woods with him , came |
| 25 | Benny pulled himself up from the floor with difficulty . |
| 26 | She mopped the liquid up from the floor with a clean towel , though she knew it meant presently lugging it all the way down to the launderette . |
| 27 | The night was clear , and arched up from the hills with a new moon rising over their crests . |
| 28 | The lads came up from the gill with buckets of water and stood a-row along the brink . |
| 29 | Mrs Joyce , the cook , came panting up from the kitchen with the two maid-servants behind her , her hands and wrists covered in flour , while Uncle Walter and his sister peeped wide-eyed from behind the curtains . |
| 30 | One morning Kalchu came up from the stable with a bowl of warm milk and poured half of it into a separate container for me . |