Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv prt] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tony took the overdose on Sunday night , at around the time when his father , his father 's girl friend and her son were due to come back from the pub . |
| 2 | It is possible to find out from the data whether a zone has changed between 1981 and 1991 , but not how . |
| 3 | Well , I am quite willing to find out from the City Council Officers after this programme what the numbers are , if that 's the issue you want explored , and we 'll come back to you with the precise details . |
| 4 | OF THE OTHER NEW ‘ JAPANESE ’ SAVOY titles , a few stand out from the crowd . |
| 5 | Red Bank Road Bispham , with open rack 134 coming up from the Depot to go into service as an afternoon ‘ special ’ to the Gynn . |
| 6 | You 've still got some left over from the year before , but people keep giving you it . |
| 7 | Ah but we got some left over from the others . |
| 8 | In practice it is not always easy to stand back from the mass of information and choose a main message and a few submessages . |
| 9 | She looks pretty shook up from the letter . |
| 10 | It is just as likely to draw back from the hole . |
| 11 | " All these ends are 2½ English elm for three strakes out from the centre , and after that you 've got oak . |
| 12 | I saw you and Oliver in the café when we all came up from the beach . |
| 13 | ‘ The best scores from weekly magazines came from City Limits and New Stateman & Society ; the Literary Review scored well ; the TLS and London Review of Books were disappointing , and the worst scores of all came in from the Spectator and Time Out . |
| 14 | ‘ We had agreed to wait until they all came back from the States . ’ |
| 15 | They went higher , up the steep winding road , snow banked high on either side of them and no traffic at all coming down from the pass . |
| 16 | There was more noise than usual coming through from the landlady 's kitchen . |
| 17 | Here he was able to stand back from the onrush of western man and ask himself the real questions of life and meaning ; get his young life , full and successful as it had been , into perspective . |
| 18 | By reacting in this way , Jane is able to stand back from the situation and it can not hurt her as it used to do . |
| 19 | That demanded constant attention , and yet the Prime Minister must also be able to stand back from the pressure of events and think about the future . |
| 20 | Erm yeah so so so you might be able to find out from the institute |
| 21 | What have you been able to find out from the parents ? ’ |
| 22 | The purely Chinese came over from the mainland with Chiang Kai-Shek . ’ |
| 23 | Stories simply handed down by word of mouth over that length of time are likely to be less accurate than those written down from the beginning . |
| 24 | The eight men , from St John 's College , came in for a severe dressing down from the police after they bared all on a two-mile row down the River Isis . |
| 25 | But soon it might be depressing to look down from the Topping . |
| 26 | Those coming in from the sea do the same thing in reverse , leaving the wheel with a sideways dive when they are within a few yards of their nest-hole . |
| 27 | When he has good selective movements in his hemiplegic leg , he may be able to get down from the bath seat into the bath tub . |
| 28 | ‘ We succeeded because we were elected to the Lebanese parliament and we were able to take over from the Turks and French in their ministries . ’ |
| 29 | A tavern in Southwark is , many would say , only one step up from the place you were spirited from . ’ |
| 30 | In the sample of seven companies , one stood out from the others as having a very different and more sophisticated method of scanning the environment . |