Example sentences of "from [adv] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was several minutes before her quick ears picked up , from somewhere well ahead of her , the snap of a broken branch under a trampling foot . |
| 2 | The voice always seemed to come from the shadows or from somewhere just aside from where he was looking ; and usually the words did n't make any sense , and they passed through his mind so quickly that they 'd gone before he could reach for them . |
| 3 | Choking back his own fear of the desolate , grassless woodland , the before-dawn-returning owls that they could hear some way off and the extraordinary , rank animal smell that seemed to come from somewhere rather nearer , he began . |
| 4 | As they tottered through the trees this Wednesday morning , she felt herself shaking from somewhere deep inside . |
| 5 | I drop , my knee cracking like a pistol shot , from somewhere deep inside . |
| 6 | From somewhere far away comes the drone of a mower , and the smell of the cut grass . |
| 7 | From somewhere far away , she could make out the screaming whine of an emergency vehicle in a hurry . |
| 8 | From somewhere far below came a series of metallic ‘ clonks ’ . |
| 9 | The man who had mastered self-control and resisted sin from within now openly declared war on the outward corruption of the fall and the bondage of the Evil One . |
| 10 | A compact microwave with turntable , featuring the Twinwave system ( microwaves enter the food from below as well as from above ) . |
| 11 | Sometimes the possible link can be from much longer ago than a few months and here the memory is almost invariably an unsolved murder case . |
| 12 | Despite this , an intrepid few made it from the continent , including examples from France , Holland , although the star of the event was from much further afield — half-way around the world . |
| 13 | By that time , however , refrigeration techniques had ensured that meat could be brought from much further afield : beef from North and South America , mutton from Australia and New Zealand . |
| 14 | The store , at the heart of the expanding Stewartfield area of East Kilbride , will attract shoppers not only from the immediate area , but from much further afield . |
| 15 | At the sight of herself in the mirror , an image of herself from so long ago , all the shock came back , taking her by surprise . |
| 16 | It was a marvellous site and , seen from so far away , the house did n't look a ruin . |
| 17 | And why are you calling from so far away ? |
| 18 | Her mother 's face came swimming into her mind , blotting out the sight of the message from so far away . |
| 19 | Llewelyn turned from the harness that was being checked out of the armoury , and looked at his foster-son for a moment from so far away and by so dazzling a light that he seemed hardly to know him . |
| 20 | St Kevin from Glendalough , and St Columcille-Columba from just about everywhere , were frequent guests . |
| 21 | From just about anywhere on the GalacNet she can access systems on other works including the all-inclusive Encyclobanks of SenFed Central . |
| 22 | ‘ We are emerging from just about as difficult a period as I can remember in over 37 years in the business , but we are emerging with capital ratios still among the strongest of any of the world 's banks — ready and willing to lend for any viable purpose , and desperate for the chance to show both personal and corporate customers that the personal , flexible , friendly service which we have tried to give in the past and which I hope has given us the privilege of enjoying your company tonight — that same service is still very much on offer today . ’ |
| 23 | That 's because it 's because you ca n't shoot people from like really far away |
| 24 | There may , however , have been a diminution in tribute and revenues from possibly less securely held border regions and it would be surprising if the political problems of this period were not at least a factor in what has been called a ‘ drastic economic collapse ’ |
| 25 | Fragments of lacquerware have been excavated dating from as long ago as the Shang Dynasty ( from about 1700 to about 1000 BC ) , but it was during the Han Dynasty ( 206 BC to AD 220 ) that lacquer painting flourished . |
| 26 | It has been a principle championed in the fiction of Kingsley Amis , from as long ago as Luck Jim , that ‘ nice things are nicer than nasty things . ’ |
| 27 | But , again , we must beware the limits of anecdotal evidence ; several of Ryder 's examples are from the 1930s and 1940s ( and one from as long ago as 1909 ) and would breach today 's legal standards . |
| 28 | For some , this depth is seen as having imposed an institutional bias and rigidity on the economy from as long ago as the late nineteenth century . |
| 29 | In particular , Chandra Talpade Mohanty 's essay seems odd , devoted as it is to a detailed comparison of essays from as long ago as 1981 and 1984 , in which she takes issue with Robin Morgan 's universalist feminism . |
| 30 | He 's had dogs from as far afield as London and Liverpool . |