Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [adv prt] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | More gardens to the left , so it would make sense to suppose that you 'd come in from the right , leaving your car in the road at the end of the row . |
| 32 | Well he 'd come in from the shop , he 'd have that kettle of hot water to wash his hands . |
| 33 | ‘ I 'd come back from a trip to Australia with pictures of the aborigines ’ march during the Bicentenary Day ‘ celebrations ’ . |
| 34 | ‘ I 'd come back from a trip to Australia with pictures of the aborigines . |
| 35 | ‘ I 'd come back from a trip to Australia with pictures of the aborigines ' match during the Bicentenary Day ‘ celebrations ’ . |
| 36 | The most unlikely moment for Claire to talk about a day when she and her brother went walking across the land of a man who believed he 'd come back from the dead as a fox . |
| 37 | Passed on from the ‘ star ’ who 'd come back from the bar |
| 38 | When there were , the engine driver would stop the train and get out of his cab and shoo them off , and sometimes he 'd wait so that everyone could get down from the carriages and stretch their legs and pick blackberries before they set off again . |
| 39 | We 'd shout up from the street to him . |
| 40 | You could paddle out from the right alongside a rock jetty , or you could go from the left . |
| 41 | Intending clients could stroll in from the street , look over what was on offer , and come to an arrangement with the young lady of their choice . |
| 42 | George said : ‘ Well I dare say I could find out from the Land Registry . ’ |
| 43 | Winkles down at Finn Mill there used to be sm well thousands , millions of them , winkles and the ships used to come round from the Blackwater from Colchester area , come round , stay round the Finn Mill about a fortnight and they used to have what they call a well in their boat and they used to have fill up little sacks like a sand bag of winkles and take them round there and cultivate them . |
| 44 | You part of the horn , you dredged them up , cos you used t the only thing we saw taken out , then this old fella used to come down from the Museum or whatever he was and he used to be pleased he 'd stay there all day and pick up them all . |
| 45 | They used to come down from the North-German , Swiss , English , American . |
| 46 | Well there was always the parlour , you must have the parlour and er you , you had two living rooms and the one was the parlour and there was a cellar underneath the parlour and er the stairs used to come in from the back and go up , up the stairs over the entrance to the cellar but the stairs used to run up there underneath the stairs was the entrance to the cellar , there was a door , so that you could n't just walk down the cellar without opening the door you see , but apart from that there was er there was just the two , two bedrooms . |
| 47 | At my parents house , erm , in that , we 've had an extension in there , so the garden 's not there any more , but erm , I used , the light used to come in from the windows , so of at , at the angle to the bath , so I could n't lift my leg up , so I rub it gently like this , and I 'd watch the told me where I missed bits and |
| 48 | I can tell you — I was almost propping my eyelids up with matchsticks by the time Ben used to get back from the office ! |
| 49 | If he was in a procession the other members of the procession still worried about his inability to walk a straight line and feared that at some point he would peel off from the file . |
| 50 | Often when attempting to explain some aspect of my studies to fellow students who were having difficulties , I would look up from the textbook we were sharing to see an expression of sheer disbelief pass across their faces . |
| 51 | And as he poked around the undergrowth for hidden poachers , another shot would ring out from the far end of the water . |
| 52 | After the neighbours and the dinner and the Queen 's speech , depression would set in from the rich food and the gins and tonics . |
| 53 | It was about this time that I received a letter from Dr Liu Shih-Shun , Chinese Ambassador in Ottawa , who informed me that , with the imminent cessation of hostilities in Asia , the Chinese government would move back from the wartime capital of Chungking to the south central city of Nanking . |
| 54 | Thus , no Roman skipper would move off from a port on 24 August , 5 October , or 8 November , and it was thought bad to be at sea at the end of the month . |
| 55 | Ahidjo decided in 1981 that for reasons of health , he would step down from the presidency but remain chairman of the ruling party , the Union Nationale Camerounaise ( UNC ) . |
| 56 | We shall take back from the richest 1 per cent . |
| 57 | It was inevitable — and should have been obvious to the kinds of forecasting brains that IBM could afford — that the open systems movement would spread up from the desktop to infect first the minicomputer world and then the mainframe . |
| 58 | One might speculate that an impending solution to the Northern Ireland problem would split off from the clerical leadership those groups for whom the present position is only accepted on pragmatic grounds . |
| 59 | And when , as often happened , the screen began to yellow and darken , the cry would go up from the front rows : ‘ Purra nother bob in Len ! ’ |
| 60 | . ’ Another woman , repeating with incredulity that such things could happen while the Führer was standing by his soldiers at the Front in the fight against Bolshevism , said blessings would go out from the crucifixes in the schools ‘ not only for the children themselves , but also for our Führer and his soldiers , who are our sons , fathers , and brothers ’ . |