Example sentences of "of [noun] [adv prt] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's stan really sa of stands out from the the background . |
| 2 | It 's a good idea to keep a couple of sacks of gravel over from the job , so you can fill ruts and top up bald patches as the drive wears and settles down . |
| 3 | WordPerfect for Windows Power Macros is one of those weighty ( 500+ pages ) books/manuals and although designed for the ‘ couple of steps up from a basic knowledge ’ reader , I did n't find it got me into the harder bits gently . |
| 4 | He flattered himself that he was in some small part responsible for such blissful bizarrities , given that over the years he 'd brought all manner of influences through from the Succulent Rock . |
| 5 | He lifted a couple of mugs down from the shelf . |
| 6 | The Polish replica moved the breaking of Enigma on from a theoretical exercise to a practical one and Knox always gave the Poles credit for the part they played . |
| 7 | The longstanding drift of people to the south is now less important than the movement of population out from the cities to surrounding smaller towns and to rural areas . |
| 8 | The ne'er-do-wells and the many sightseers mixed with the army of law clerks carrying rolls of parchment up from the cellar known as Hell where , Sir John explained , the legal records were kept . |
| 9 | Finance Act 1981 ( now TA 1988 , s740 ) has not changed that fundamental point although charges can arise in respect of payments out from the trust to beneficiaries . |
| 10 | Oh God do n't wan na do my fucking musical , I 've got ta make a flipping piece of music out from a stupid scale . |
| 11 | General Automation Inc has reported a first quarter net loss of $290,000 down from a loss last time of $594,000 , after tax credits of $225,000 this time , $38,000 last , on turnover that rose 0.4% at $11.1m . |
| 12 | We can certainly prefer not carrying endless scuttles of coal up from the cellar . |
| 13 | Of course , you get a lot of dust in from the forest . |
| 14 | What I 'd really like , of course , is not to have to bother with lugging kilo bags of sugar and tins of weedkiller back from the town to stuff into electrical-conduit piping which Jamie the dwarf gets for me from the building contractor 's where he works in Porteneil . |
| 15 | The tale goes that a little while back , IBM Corp was using street names , reportedly from the Palo Alto town map , as its product code names — Sierra , Summit perhaps — and had been carefully working up the map , so that all you had to do to put a top IBMer into a real flap was to pick a name from the map a couple of streets up from the most recent one you 'd heard of and ask how that product was coming along . |
| 16 | The tale goes that a little while back , IBM Corp was using street names , reportedly from the Palo Alto town map , as its product code names — Sierra , Summit perhaps — and had been carefully working up the map , so that all you had to do to put a top IBMer into a real flap was to pick a name from the map a couple of streets up from the most recent one you 'd heard of and ask how that product was coming along . |
| 17 | In this chapter , I aim to narrow the area of discussion down from the larger field of objectification as a process to the question of the nature of the object per se . |
| 18 | He picked a newly constructed swatch of samples up from the desk in front of him and chucked it at Antinou , who caught the flopping thing one-handed and proceeded to fondle it familiarly . |
| 19 | There do exist ways of identifying the boundaries of stretches of discourse which set one chunk of discourse off from the rest . |