Example sentences of "they [adv prt] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The element of playing to the gallery is conserved in the way they portray the fight as a piece of street theatre , with the adults cheering them on from the balconies , while the girls offer silent support , as the boys defend the honour of the white community against the ‘ black invasion ’ . |
| 2 | Oxford , at 34 , with coach Pat Sweeney urging them on from the Oxford launch , began to assert their full power off Duke 's Meadows , drawing ahead while Cambridge , at 35 , began to look vulnerable . |
| 3 | The people who created the Garotter 's Act , together with the gentlemen who egged them on from the sidelines helping to fashion the vocabulary of objections to penal reform which remain with us to this day , were thus the same men whose blunted moral sensibilities enabled them to preside over this magnanimous process of ‘ civilisation ’ without turning a hair . |
| 4 | ‘ You bring them on from the time they 're little , and they think they 've got it made , then — wallop . ’ |
| 5 | But then , from what I hear , that 's overrun with bairns ; they 've stopped gathering them in from the streets . |
| 6 | But he is flying in the face of opposition from the ruling Labour group who recently boycotted a visit by a South African diplomat saying it was too early to bring them in from the cold . |
| 7 | A fourth — a girl — had an epileptic fit as rescuers brought them down from the Lake District peak at Ullswater in Cumbria . |
| 8 | THE Tranmere Rovers players were so high on good publicity before this match that their manager , John King , said he would have to pull them down from the ceiling . |
| 9 | Their manager , John King , said his players were so high on publicity that before this match he had to pull them down from the ceiling . |
| 10 | ‘ We put them in , me an ’ my friends , brought them down from the lake . |
| 11 | At the top end , very high-fliers are still in demand , to the extent that recruiters sometimes have difficulty pulling them down from the stratosphere to fill plum vacancies . |
| 12 | He had sneaked himself into the crowd of humans as the huge woman had herded them over from the train . |
| 13 | ( I prefer to gently lever them off from the underside with a small screwdriver ) . |
| 14 | The mist cut them off from the rest of the field . |
| 15 | They had travelled only a few yards into the dense timber when the silence of the woods closed in about them , cutting them off from the rest of humanity in a claustrophobic world of towering trunks and patches of thick underbrush . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Even in the Elizabethan and Stuart era rural communities in certain regions such as the West Riding of Yorkshire or the West Midlands had an industrial character that marked them off from the societies that have so far been described . |
| 18 | Now the opposing argument to that is that if you create a special environment during the educational phase of a child 's life , then what happens after that for his I mean how far have you then separated them off from the sort of life that they will have to lead thereafter . |
| 19 | He was determined to get behind the Russians and cut them off from the east . |
| 20 | and getting them up from the cellars . |
| 21 | Sometimes , he would add lines like : ‘ You 've got to pick them up from the carpet , or they 'll tread in . |
| 22 | Well a cos then you can pick them up altogether if , are you with me , if you 're doing the rounds for your friends cos some of them 'll be on there and some 'll be Pick them up from the front , it 's just that some of the stuff will be at the front and some of it wo n't . |
| 23 | Congressman Long thinks to give us alms , kicked towards us with the dirty soles of his shoes , so that the Salvadorean people , on their bended knees , lick them up from the ground with their tongues . |
| 24 | Great flights of fire-breathing beasts swooped on the armies of the night , and drove them back from the heart of Ulthuan to the shores of the island-continent . |
| 25 | If she was really too old to cure herself of facetious thoughts , at least she could bite them back from the tip of her tongue . |
| 26 | Hundreds of riot police then charged repeatedly at scores of Left-wingers and pushed them back from the podium so that President Weizsaecker could begin his speech . |
| 27 | Elijah has to drag them back from the worship of the heathen fertility gods introduced by Jezebel . |
| 28 | The last two singles , ‘ Dragging Me Down ’ and ‘ Two Worlds Collide ’ , and new one ‘ Generations ’ have pulled them back from the margins that the rambling excesses of ‘ The Beast Inside ’ threatened to confine them to . |
| 29 | But typewriters we had problems with because , if they went in for repair , you never got them back from the Ordinance Core , and so at one place in Tunbridge Wells we handed a typewriter in and because the army were allowed to buy greaseproof paper , we bought a lot of greaseproof paper which came in the package of a new typewriter . |
| 30 | It seems to take ages to get them back from the printers . |