Example sentences of "[adv prt] from the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Considered as an institutional bridge , Schloss Hartheim was part of my winding down from the experience of the KZ . |
| 2 | But it has reached the stage where Group 4 have now ‘ lost ’ Sir Norman ’ — Labour 's Frank Dobson on the announcement that the Tory chairman is to stand down from the board of Group 4 . |
| 3 | Gazzer watched her lower herself down from the top of the gates and edge out on one of the beams . |
| 4 | I was going to come charging down from the top of a sand-hill . |
| 5 | At Brooke Parker 's there were men reversing a lorry against the bed of concrete that sloped down from the top of Thorpe Street to the wide loading-doors . |
| 6 | As Roberto was coming down from the top of his back-swing , the spectators leaned forward on to the fencing causing a crack like thunder . |
| 7 | I got it down from the top of the wardrobe . |
| 8 | First , decide how far down from the top of the aquarium you wish to position the strengtheners to accommodate any desired equipment inside the top . |
| 9 | The Vicar then took the text for his sermon from the second lesson , ‘ God loveth a cheerful giver ’ , and was so carried away by his own rhetoric that he absent-mindedly helped himself to most of the grapes hanging down from the top of the pulpit . |
| 10 | We spent the whole morning climbing the steep , hard ice in the couloir 's depths , so were somewhat dismayed when two figures skiied up to the base of the couloir , raced up to and past us , virtually dispensing with runners and belays , and then abseiled down from the top of the hard climbing at one third height , passing us again . |
| 11 | It was all so sudden it made her feel queer ; affecting her stomach like looking down from the top of a cliff or riding on a Big Dipper . |
| 12 | 10 ( not 10,000 ) were cast down from the top of the rock ( 2 Chronicles 25:12 ) . |
| 13 | One by one , the men came down from the top of the rock , and sat with their arms around each other , out of the wind . |
| 14 | Personally , I do n't like the exercise of feeling a definite pull down from the top of the backswing . |
| 15 | Erm that erm about erm me father coming down from the top of the ah ah well , this was January the thirty first , nineteen hundred and sixteen and er me father had been up to look after the horses , pigs etc you know , and about eight o'clock he came back and said to my mother that there was a big fire out at Wensbury Me mother and all of us went up there , and er we could see these blazing buildings over there , and er mother immediately said that 's no fire , that 's the Zeppelin 's , and er that 's what it turned out to be , of course . |
| 16 | Pin the tape to the curtain over the heading allowance , fractionally down from the top of the curtain ( fig. 29 ) . |
| 17 | The result is that this type of wave combs material down from the top of the beach giving a net erosive effect . |
| 18 | If the locational data are available in x , y order then , if you are familiar with BASIC or FORTRAN , or some other high-level language , it is relatively easy to write a program to reverse the order of the x , y pairs and to convert the y coordinate so that it measures distance down from the top of the page rather than distance up from the bottom . |
| 19 | So if you have a look at the idea of communication flowing down from the top of the structure lower down then w what 's that communication going to be including ? |
| 20 | Okay so directions , instructions , orders , flowing down from the top of the structure to the bottom of the structure and perhaps also some feedback as well . |
| 21 | Today when you look down from the top of the mountain which once provided jobs for 85 per cent of the male population you 're looking down on one of the poorest cities in Bolivia.When the price of tin crashed on the world markets in 1985 the state mines were closed down and 25,000 people lost their jobs . |
| 22 | down from the top of the steps to the path , just what I wanted |
| 23 | At such times as it was expedient to run water from the Grand Union Canal into the Grand Junction Canal the passing of that water down from the top to the bottom pond , that is a fall of 56 feet and at the rate of say 2 locks per hour , would represent a gross force of 32 h.p. and this force could be utilized by means of a turbine or otherwise for providing power to work the lift . |
| 24 | It 's all in , I mean the days are down from the top to the bottom . |
| 25 | The double zip allows you to roll the centre flap up from the bottom , to be fastened at the top or rolled down from the top for quick access . |
| 26 | Without a moment 's hesitation she jumped down from the platform of the bus , as the driver slammed on the brakes , swearing : ‘ Make up yer bleeding mind , for Gawd 's sake ! ’ |
| 27 | The Khmer Rouge also comes down from the north through Preah Vihear to Kompong Thom , Kratie and Kompong Cham . |
| 28 | Then , in gathering darkness , drop down from the ridge to Dore Head , where a steep descent leads rapidly back to the security of the valley for that welcome pint at the Wasdale Head Inn . |
| 29 | Even before Desmond Boal stepped down from the chairmanship of the Party to advocate his idea of a federal Ireland , the Party was very much what even DUP activists admit to have been ‘ Paisley 's fan club ’ . |
| 30 | Measuring applause does not reveal that the movie was memorable for the woman in the third row because the building on screen reminded her of where she went to school and all those childhood memories came flooding back intercut with the film while the auditorium gently shook as an underground train passed beneath and cigarette ash fluttered down from the balcony in the projector beam . |