Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] from [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry Pascoe returned from these sporting festivities scratched all over from fighting among the gorse bushes on Pencarrow Head , and found his new wife in her new kitchen . |
| 2 | As far as I 'm concerned , the residents come first ; and I expect every member of staff to understand that , right through from helping them get up in the morning to taking someone off to bingo if she wants to go . |
| 3 | Hypocrisy is a key element in this plot , too , with the difference that while they started near the top of society and were on the verge of receiving power at the very beginning , he — as a bastard son who is only just back from having spent nine years abroad ( the typical occupation for one who has no prospect of inheritance in his own country ) and is due to go again — starts very much lower down in society , virtually at the bottom . |
| 4 | He was just back from giving the Second Channel a tour of the White House at night , something he often did , and with a proper historical reverence . |
| 5 | This will prevent any cabbage root flies still around from laying eggs . |