Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adv prt] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Noises of such intensity may seriously affect the ability of cetaceans to communicate and echolocate , especially in cold polar waters where ice cover reflects much underwater noise back from the surface . |
| 2 | and the salt-cracked slipway down from the jetty . |
| 3 | A shuttle bus operates to the hotel 's reserved section of beach at San Maria , which is accessed via 70 steps down from the road and has a beach bar . |
| 4 | By providing money for so-called buy-back operations , in which countries either bought their own commercial debts back from the banks at deeply discounted levels or , alternatively , simply used the money as collateral when negotiating low-interest bond deals , a number of countries had been able to reschedule their own external obligations on easier repayment terms than had been agreed at the time when they were made . |
| 5 | They may have gone down the medium wave dial from 10.17 to 8.55 , but their new premises in Ludlow is more than a few steps up from the barn . |
| 6 | The rear door of the car opened and my father was observed to be standing there , a few steps back from the vehicle , gazing steadily into the interior . |
| 7 | Some boys were bringing battered wooden buckets up from the well and the occasional housewife emptied the slops from the night jars out into the middle of the street . |
| 8 | Hewlett-Packard Co has won a $125m contract with Europe 's largest telecommunications carrier , Deutsche Bundespost 's Telekom , Darmstadt , for 1,000 PA RISC Unix workstations , printers and plotters : the German giant will move some applications over from the IBM and Siemens Nixdorf mainframes it uses . |
| 9 | I 'll ask Daddy to give you a few days off from the office . |
| 10 | The vineyards of Bisseuil are set some distance back from the village and grow at a height of about 160 metres on the south-east-facing slopes of Mont Aigu , which forms the eastern side of the Val d'Or in which Avenay is located . |
| 11 | Yes , they 've turned the people in this district round from the way they were heading . |
| 12 | With a fireplace in the middle , but they 've now put dividing walls in , taken the old frame out from the back and this was originally built as an additional room on the back . |
| 13 | The two men stood side by side a few yards in from the edge of the treeline , examining the layout of the ground between them and the house . |
| 14 | Her background was a few rungs up from the Jenkinses and that elementary social fact helped to give her a poise in the face of his ever-increasing sureness . |
| 15 | The surging crowd had carried me some rows back from the front . |
| 16 | I squeezed the plastic bottle and sent a jet of petrol out of it , over the wick of the lighter , held a few centimetres out from the nozzle by an aluminium tent-peg . |
| 17 | I 'll look at the cricket scores and pretend I 'm some old member in from the shires with a striped blazer and a pink gin in his fist . |
| 18 | Our cargo of cement was destined for a factory at Tima , a town which lay a few miles back from the riverbank . |
| 19 | Seen outside the ‘ homely ’ Bull & Gate pub — just a few doors down from the Town & Country Club where your beloved NME is currently holding its superlative week of talent flaunting — a small sad notice fluttering in the wake of the jostling NICK CAVE-bound hordes , announcing : ‘ HURRAH , onstage tonight at 10.30pm . |
| 20 | We saw a great many sheep , of course , grazing on the peat-grass and the bog-myrtle ; and every once in a while , some miles back from the road , an estancia — a collection of farm buildings like white dolls ' houses , tiny on the immense plain . |
| 21 | Six months on from the launch , Beaverton , Oregon-based Sequent Computer Systems Inc claims it has won 30 customers for its ptx/Clusters high-availability clustering technology , most with several hundred users attached . |
| 22 | We looked at his stone fireplace , cracked horizontally about six feet up from the March quake and moved over to a drafting table . |
| 23 | Winterbotham , a future mastermind of the ‘ Ultra ’ miracle that decoded wartime German communications , naturally reporting his chilling discoveries back from the Reich to the minions of MacDonald , Baldwin and Chamberlain . |
| 24 | A New Brutalist Conservative government has brought the moral Right in from the cold of post-60s permissive liberalism and has given it its head . |
| 25 | There was a smell of hay and horse urine from the stables and a pair of serving maids , wrapped against the cold , were winding water up from the well . |
| 26 | The sport itself and the money , shelter them from the kind of rough-and-ready exchange that brings ordinary people back from the brink of conflict and leads them to see their adversaries as people . |
| 27 | It is an easy walk down from the church of Sauveterre to the riverside , where the stump of the old fortified bridge still stands , starting hopefully out from one bank but no longer reaching to the other — a disappointed bridge , to borrow James Joyce 's perfect description of a seaside pier . |
| 28 | This provides one double row four to six rows in from the hedge and this row requires specially careful tedding . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , we give notice that we mean to bring the individual actors back from the wings later , because we believe that states and systems do not account for everything important in international relations . |
| 30 | Prisms attached to spectacle frames , a sloping card marked with four targets — ; A , B , C , and D evenly spaced with the outer lines at least six inches in from the edges of the card , and a metre rule . |