Example sentences of "[adv prt] from the upper [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She might have sat all afternoon , nibbling and stuporous , exhausted but not sleepy ; but the glazier finally came down from the upper floor , cheerfully announcing that all was now right and tight and he would be on his way . |
| 2 | With hands in sleeves , the old man looked extremely Oriental , long moustaches curving down from the upper lip . |
| 3 | A lot of flood water had come down from the upper reaches of the Cherwell , and a body placed in the river , say , at Lonsdale Road … |
| 4 | Ruth , looking down from the upper deck , her hand clasped around Anna 's , lifted her clear soprano voice with the rest , though it was difficult to sing because of the tight aching in her throat and the tears which pricked at her eyes . |
| 5 | A big cat that has only recently gone extinct is the sabre-tooth ( " tiger " ) , named after its colossal canine teeth which jutted down from the upper jaw in the front of what must have been a terrifying gape . |
| 6 | Once it was called Murias , and many stories were told of how it had sunk down from the upper world to Undersea . |
| 7 | It 's to remind us that we sweep down from the upper world , slide round the bottom of the circle , and sweep up again , no trouble , if we have any sense . " |
| 8 | One can distinguish a typical trajectory — shown moving down from the upper left of the figure — as married couples reach the statutory retirement-age . |
| 9 | In the gloom and dust inside , there were fluted columns and small , implacable stone faces with crowns that glared down from the upper walls . |
| 10 | My talk with Quintin had more content since he said that if another peer came down from the Upper House he would withdraw from public life whether he was in the Upper or Lower House . |
| 11 | Here , on all sides where this softer rock breaks or underlies the surface , streams flowing down from the upper slopes , aided and abetted by heavy rain , have , ever since the landscape was formed , been slowly penetrating the ground and eroding a honeycomb of underground caverns and passages of amazing dimensions . |
| 12 | I went down from the upper grandstand as fast as I could , which was far too slowly because everyone else was doing the same thing . |
| 13 | For two days after their conversation Ruth did not see the woman , and then on the third day a man leaned over from the upper deck and called out to her . |
| 14 | The EF1-11 radar jamming plane had taken off from the Upper Heyford airbase . |
| 15 | Wooden balconies jutted out from the upper storeys , giving the plaza not only a feeling of space but of intimacy . |