Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They drag on from generation to generation and emigration to Britain makes very little difference . |
| 2 | The stately whooper swans fly in from Iceland in late September or October , the timing probably depending on how soon the first winter frosts set in up north . |
| 3 | He would have liked to stand on the roof of the train and leap along from car to car like one of the bad guys in that Western . |
| 4 | Unless one has followed the rug-making process through from clipping to completion , the only way to assess the quality of the wool is to rely on the " feel " of the item and the reputation of the individual weaving group . |
| 5 | I 'd take a bike and head out from Posidon across the Lake of Dreams . |
| 6 | But thy silk twist let down from heav'n to me |
| 7 | When she had a missive for delivery the rainbow was a bridge let down from heaven for her to travel upon . |
| 8 | Although for a time earning the salary of a parliamentary under-secretary and writing thrilling romances of fashionable life , Smith lived quietly in a Bloomsbury lodging-house , cut off from society through his deafness . |
| 9 | Two separate but converging stories are recounted in alternating chapters : the story of the White Russian Preobrajensky regiment under the command of Prince Ypsilanti , which for two years , cut off from contact with the outside world , marches through Siberia trying to reach the Tsar , and that of Tsar Nicholas II himself and his family in their last months , especially during their confinement at Ekaterinburg . |
| 10 | Tarvaras was a quarantine world , cut off from contact with the rest of the universe by orbiting weapons platforms which were programmed to destroy any craft which did not identify itself with the appropriate recognition codes , and it had seemed unlikely that the civilian survey crew would be tempted to break the stringent regulations which applied to the situation . |
| 11 | Cut off from links with the political practice of the masses , which only the communist party could provide , their writings would inevitably serve only to confuse and mislead the popular struggle , and to give aid and comfort to counter-revolutionary forces . |
| 12 | Such errors show up from time to time as inconsistencies in the records , but much worse are those that go undetected , and which could lead to the wrong conclusions being drawn when the records are analysed . |
| 13 | Your two crystals grow visibly : they break up from time to time and the pieces also grow . |
| 14 | do do walk back from town with , after all . |
| 15 | To a very large extent this is what Ashton does in A Month in the Country where the non-dancers speak out from time to time in explicit gestures . |
| 16 | I just pop up from time to time to see if Bob 's all right . ’ |
| 17 | Stand back from time to time and take a look at the big picture . |
| 18 | The Blitz crew take a doorbell each , and soon Chris is scuttling across the corporation lino as heads pop out from doors like the stops of a fairground organ . |
| 19 | Finally , he makes considerable use of ‘ natural experiments ’ , the sociological , or in this case literary , device , of studying those natural contrasts which crop up from time to time . |
| 20 | It may just be a question of getting up ten minutes earlier in the morning or taking ten minutes when you get in from work to be alone and to reflect and relax . |
| 21 | Not a pleasant task but the men get a bit browned-off sitting on their hunkers here , doing precious little but dig , and insecure grumbles to their wives and girl friends creep in from time to time . |
| 22 | Fiona and I set off from Fulham in our car at about 9 a.m . |
| 23 | Set off from Nairobi by road through Kenyan countryside to the border at Namanga with a stop in Arusha for lunch . |
| 24 | The teams set off from Liverpool for Beaune in France on the sponsored run that will raise thousands of pounds for the Macmillan Nurse Appeal , now nearing its target to fund four new hospital support Macmillan Nurses on Merseyside . |
| 25 | We set off from Amriyah on 13 March , and spent the night with 73 Squadron , as El Adem was unsafe due to the unfriendly attention it was receiving from enemy dive-bombers . |
| 26 | I set off from Beirut for Jerusalem in the late autumn of 1980 ; and the moment I entered Rafi Horowitz 's office in Jerusalem , I realised that I had set myself no easy assignment . |
| 27 | The balloons , which set off from Maine on the US East Coast , were moving last night towards Newfoundland . |
| 28 | It is never a good idea to sit for long periods but , if this is essential , get up from time to time in order to move the body . |
| 29 | You get back from work about tenish ? |
| 30 | Roads fan out from Lairg like the open fingers of a hand , each with its separate destination — Lochinver , Scourie , Kinlochbervie , Durness and Tongue — and the postal services along them were undertaken by MacBrayne 's buses which left the post offices in these places in the early morning , bringing the day 's collection to Lairg for despatch on the railway and returning with the incoming mail from the station . |