Example sentences of "[adv prt] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Down from £12.8m in 1990 to £7.9m last year , while turnover fell from £120m to £113m . |
| 2 | Dry , roasted peanuts are down from £1.09 to 99p . |
| 3 | JFK : flown down from Washington and flung together by the doctors ' knives and the sniper 's bullets and introduced on to the streets of Dallas and a hero 's welcome . |
| 4 | These genes are duplicated along with the chromosomes at each cell division and can be passed down from parents to their offspring . |
| 5 | Non-executive directors , that is a strength erm it 's also a threat but it is also a strength but basically it 's acting as a sort of yardstick to control or actually guide the actual management right down from board level right down the company there . |
| 6 | Does this reach you as you come down from bed ? |
| 7 | N.W. the level had been driven 110 fathoms , and was almost to a sump sinking down from Taylor 's above . |
| 8 | Although there was a marked improvement at the operating level , bad debt provisions of £401m , up from £351m , pushed year-end profits down from £58m to £21m . |
| 9 | Suddenly , the immense wall of molten lava bearing down from Mount Etna on to their doorsteps came to a halt . |
| 10 | In climbing down from Mount Olympus and passing over these concentric circles , you can imagine you are tracing the path of magma rising at the mid ocean ridges , eventually to spew through vents , producing large quantities of mineral ore . |
| 11 | It 's not tablets of stone which have been brought down from Mount Sinai forever to remain unalterable . |
| 12 | ‘ We shall get our friends down from London with the fish . ’ |
| 13 | In the Wolverton of 1942 there was no library , no café , no bookshop , no cinema , and thus an unsophisticated Scots girl who would never at home have entered a public house often found herself of an evening among Bletchley friends in The Galleon , an inn overlooking the Grand Junction Canal at Old Wolverton , where the brightly-painted barges plied up and down from London to Manchester , and noting how different was the English pub from the uncouth male preserve that was its Scottish counterpart . |
| 14 | A virulent form of the endemic bubonic plagues of medieval Europe , it swept across the country from the south-west and down from London . |
| 15 | The doctor 's telephoned twice and said as how if you were n't back by ten , he 'd drive down from London . ’ |
| 16 | He had had a long day at the hospital and the drive down from London had not been easy . |
| 17 | Fraser was on his way down from London , suitably escorted . |
| 18 | Laura came down from London on the long-distance bus . |
| 19 | British Rail will whisk you down from London in less than an hour . |
| 20 | The trains , running up and down from London to Stanmore and back , could only be seen through the foliage as a series of silver flashes , but their singing rattle made a constant background music . |
| 21 | I had come down from London looking for a job . |
| 22 | He was glad of the distraction , having earlier received a wire from Hilary who , at the last minute and in spite of cross-my-heart-and-hope-to-die promises , found it impossible , after all , to come down from London for the first night of Peter Pan . |
| 23 | Ben Jonson came down from London , and cried in the church . |
| 24 | Er as regards to the team that was gon na come down from London and I was Secretary of the Football Club at that time . |
| 25 | Hilda Lodge , Jean Parmiter and Hilda Hewitt travelled down from London to join in the day with many old friends . |
| 26 | Hilda Lodge , Jean Parmiter and Hilda Hewitt travelled down from London to join in the day with many old friends . |
| 27 | In my case the question of chaperonage came up with regard to the O. U. D. S. At that time all the women 's parts in the O. U. D. S. plays were taken by professional actresses who came down from London for the rehearsals and performances — and very glamorous they were too — Peggy Ashcroft among them ! |
| 28 | We had an expert down from London who pronounced them rather inferior copies — but good enough , he thought , to be worth cleaning . |
| 29 | Elise , oddly unenamoured of him , became worried when he took to coming down from London quite often at weekends . |
| 30 | One couple came down from London to the art gallery and have seen some very interesting works . |