Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [adv prt] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pitched the tent back from the sea , close to a river . |
| 2 | The YCCC however were able to raise public awareness of the issues involved , and in doing so learned that the only taxes coming from the tannery were those being paid by the workers themselves , that the city was grossly undercharging the tannery for the use of the sewage treatment plant , and that there was a sewer-use ordinance that , if enforced , would solve the problem immediately by cutting the tannery off from the sewage treatment plant . |
| 3 | For best effect , set the board back from the face of the chimney plaster by about 12 to 25mm , so there 's no problem with cracking at the joint where plaster and hardboard or timber meet . |
| 4 | As you improve , start to bring the action into your everyday life , such as when bringing the milk out from the fridge or when picking up the post each morning . |
| 5 | Jack had to fill the coal scuttles , Kevin to bring in the logs , Aengus had to roll yesterday 's papers into sausage-like shapes which would be used for lighting the fires later , Gerry , who was meant to be the animal lover , had to take Oswald for a run in the park , and see that there was something on the bird table in the garden , and Ronan had to open the big heavy curtains in the front rooms , take the milk in from the steps and place it in the big fridge and brush whatever had to be brushed from the big granite steps leading up to the house . |
| 6 | But it 's important to remember that if you do have a grievance , you can only claim the money back from the company you bought the machine from , not the manufacturer . |
| 7 | but when I spoke about safety and getting the money back from the safety training that they now want that they did n't want in the first place you said , no , we should do that |
| 8 | Publicity pays and gets the money back from the markets . |
| 9 | In all of this giving away of herself ( which can be taken in two modern senses ) , this revelation of a coarser character beneath the courtly exterior she tries to sustain , Margery follows the movement of the opening stanzas of the text down from the character of the courtly dame to the level of the townswoman , a stereotyped bourgeois Vxor , " Wife " : the label that seems to be given her by the letter " " V " alongside some of her speeches in the manuscript copy of Dame Sirith . |
| 10 | She smoothed the hair back from the dead face . |
| 11 | ‘ You 've taken the cottage on from the Russells , have n't you ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We must do this more often , Rose , ’ he said as he backed the Ford out from the ornamental cannon . |
| 13 | Hunter observed that ‘ … the whole viscera when all the Blood is press 'd out goes into a very little bulk , even the Liver will lose vastly of its bulk and in short the whole viscera will come into a small compass when they are well clean 'd and put into dry cloths ; you are then to go to the trunk of the Body and empty it of Blood as well as you can and press the Blood out from the Face , Hands , etc. as well as Arms , and the more Blood is pressed out the better ’ . |
| 14 | You may find when you have the reply back from the employer that you have to suspend unemployment benefit . |
| 15 | Somewhere on the outside was a frieze of armed horsemen ; and over the doorway in from the porch was a stone beam with animals in low relief on its outer face and , seated above it , two statues of goddesses ( or a goddess ) facing each other . |
| 16 | ‘ Now when I know the boys are preparing for another game and I 'm not there , I will miss it ; the familiar routine , meeting at the Petersham Hotel in Richmond on a Wednesday night , the late meal , the exchange of views as people come in ; the Thursday morning training , dashing round to golf or wherever in the afternoon , the team meeting in the evening , the Friday session , probably going to the cinema at night , the leg pulling , the nervous jokes on the Saturday of the game itself , the closing in from the outside world . ’ |
| 17 | The pale middle-aged skipper emerged from the bowels of the ship as the second mate , another young lad , ticked the engine over from the wheel house . |
| 18 | On Thursday 3 October , a bomb caused a large crater in London Road , Thornton Heath , between Dunheved Road North and Dunheved Road South , cutting the depôt off from the rest of the Croydon system . |
| 19 | The next time you need to backup the directory you copy it into \WORK\WORK\WORK and so on until you feel that it is time to start the backup off from the start again . |
| 20 | A modern drainage system means that the village rarely floods these days , but the village green , known locally as ‘ The Pond ’ though it was filled in many years ago , shows signs of its former glory whenever there is a heavy rainstorm , and a decent fall of snow , combined with the winds so common to the Wolds , can still cut the village off from the outside world . |
| 21 | Then Morton helped to carry the equipment in from the growler . |
| 22 | It was yet another of the advantages of belonging to the working class , like always knowing someone who would send her son round to unblock the sink , lay a carpet , get the cat down from the tree , lend you a van for the evening or sell you trainers and tracksuits cheap . |
| 23 | God knows how much there still is down there ; I 've seen great stacks and bales of it still with the Royal Navy markings on it , and I 've dreamed up any number of ways of getting at it , but short of tunnelling in from the shed and taking the cordite out from the back , so that the bales looked untouched from the inside of the cellar , I do n't see how I could do it . |
| 24 | Er Madam Speaker , I I agree with er the honourable gentleman that it 's extremely important that the various agencies do play a part in working together to ensure effective action with minimum bureaucracy and I know that the honourable gentleman has been anxious to ensure that that happens in his own constituency and his own area where he is dealing with the problems of high unemployment er and the fall out from the closures of pits in his area and if the honourable gentleman has any specific er er measures which he would like us to look at then I 'd be very happy to consider those . |
| 25 | The fall out from the downturn in the Lloyds insurance marketr now appears to be hitting hard across the region . |
| 26 | When the full force of competition hits , it is desperately hard to recover your company , set the new tempo that is required , and seize the initiative back from the . |
| 27 | During this time , the dealer had hired a lawyer who successfully claimed the picture back from the Gemäldegalerie ; relations were strained between East and West Germany , and , according to the dealer , ‘ There was no interest from the DDR ’ . |
| 28 | We built the festival up from the old village concerts , which are still always packed out ’ . |
| 29 | When he drew the curtain back from the windows , he was smiling . |
| 30 | She said carrying the water up from the well had taken a great deal of time which , when I saw her filling the bucket , I was not surprised since she lowered the rope slow enough to make me fall asleep watching . |