Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sat and thought somberly about Kegan , keeping his chin tucked into his neck and his eyes on the toes of his outstretched feet , as people clutching clipboards bustled about , and men wearing earphones and pulling the attached wires behind them moved importantly from place to place and shouted at the invisible listeners who spoke to them through the earphones . |
| 2 | Do n't let them look down from heaven , and see you loafing about with your hands in your pockets , doing nothing to keep it up . ’ |
| 3 | If you have children , you may have experienced them coming home from school and immediately throwing a tantrum in front of you . |
| 4 | Newspapers make their money from combination of cover price revenue and what they bring in from selling advertising space . |
| 5 | They drag on from generation to generation and emigration to Britain makes very little difference . |
| 6 | Studies of vegetarian groups have revealed that they suffer less from heart disease , strokes and gallstones . |
| 7 | They trembled not from fear , but from anger and resentment which had built up rapidly in the 24 hours since he had heard the ridiculous order from Washington . |
| 8 | They moved mysteriously from shelf to shelf . |
| 9 | Interestingly , Cole ( 1979 , 238 ) suggests that the low rates of Japanese satisfaction are due to the fact that they expect more from work than other nationalities ! |
| 10 | Her eyes glittered with unshed tears , but now they stemmed more from anger than misery . |
| 11 | At least there was someone to look after them as they wandered about from place to place . |
| 12 | David smiled , and they drove away from Chestnut House . |
| 13 | Your two crystals grow visibly : they break up from time to time and the pieces also grow . |
| 14 | And it came home to me that you know we all had to come to terms in some way with erm with what it was all about and the kids and you know and it became something of a I mean i it was the experience that we went through you know it was i it was you know something that we 'll always remember I think because it 'll always make Christmas different I think for us in a way you know but it And when they came up from South Wales with car loads and van loads and I mean we all just sobbed you know I mean there was nothing to do really you know it was just and I think anyway that was Christmas , but I mean er . |
| 15 | They never knew what to expect when they came home from school ! ’ |
| 16 | The break-in was discovered by her two sons , Peter , 17 , and Neil , 15 , when they came home from school . |
| 17 | They always knew things were bad when they came back from school together to William 's house and found William 's grandad painting battleships . |
| 18 | They have been revised over time — usually downwards — and they vary significantly from country to country . |
| 19 | Not long after they arrived home from school , Linda and Ella went up to see Sergeant Joe . |
| 20 | The dinner was a gloomy affair — ‘ … my guests ' dejection was so great that they turned away from food and drink ’ — but then came the telegram from the King . |
| 21 | You know they measure across from heel to toe |
| 22 | And the police up on the railway embankment when they walked home from school , and the tunnel fenced off so they had to go the long way round . |
| 23 | Josh does n't have much of an appetite at present , but I expect the boys will be hungry when they get home from school . ’ |
| 24 | I reckon she must be , by the time they get home from work she do n't wan na do a lot . |
| 25 | According to one piece of research ( Managing Mothers , by Julia Brannen and Peter Moss ) working mothers not only do most of the household chores when they get back from work , they actually expect to do so . |
| 26 | He said he would be talking to the existing team management duo of Doug Livermore and Ray Clemence , as well as the rest of the players as soon as they get back from vacation . |
| 27 | I believe many people increasingly want their news when it is convenient for them — when they get in from work , when they 've picked up the children from school , when they take a break from their work , or finish a meeting , when they arrive in a hotel . |
| 28 | I believe many people increasingly want their news when it is convenient for them — when they get in from work , when they 've picked up the children from school , when they take a break from their work , or finish a meeting , when they arrive at a hotel . |
| 29 | Of course , I 'd have to be back by four , on account of making tea for the boys when they get in from school . ’ |
| 30 | For one thing , they varied enormously from place to place ( e.g. the distinctions between the policies of the colonial administrations of Kenya and neighbouring Uganda , Brett 1973 ; Leys 1975 ) , and between Anglophone and Francophone Africa . |