Example sentences of "from [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | From somewhere in the lower regions of the house , laughter told Beth that Luther Reynolds was still awake . |
| 32 | Either the salt would sting into a cut or raw spot on my body , bringing back bodily feeling in one fell swoop , or else , from somewhere in the bowels of building , my ears , questing for the remotest of stimuli , would pick up on the sound of a toilet being flushed , or perhaps a trolley banging against a wall . |
| 33 | ‘ You ca n't go down to Lucifer , ’ Miles said from somewhere in the refectory . |
| 34 | From somewhere in the house she heard a sound and to cover it spoke again . |
| 35 | There was a scream from somewhere in the house ; the chatter of voices quietened briefly and he could sense heads turning to the open door leading from the room . |
| 36 | The girl had arrived from somewhere in the north early in the season . |
| 37 | mewing for me from somewhere in the room . |
| 38 | The family came from somewhere in the West Country . |
| 39 | Her finely shaped brows met in dark disapproval as she watched him pick at the lock with a thin piece of wire that he had produced from somewhere in the depths of his pocket . |
| 40 | From somewhere in the house came a faint , high-pitched hum . |
| 41 | His evidence was the migration of the water hen ( Tribonyx ventralis ) , which arrived in enormous numbers in November from somewhere in the north , and returned again after only two or three months . |
| 42 | The mirror was full of a huge white-shirted arm coming from somewhere in the back seat to encircle my throat . |
| 43 | From somewhere in the house came the rattle of teacups on a tray . |
| 44 | With the briefest of intros emanating from somewhere in the swathe of dry ice , The Bunnymen arrived to polite applause and tore into a set devoid of any material dating back to the days of Ian McCulloch . |
| 45 | From somewhere inside the house came the loud , curlew-like cry of a tree frog . |
| 46 | A minute later the gates were activated from somewhere inside the grounds . |
| 47 | From somewhere inside the house there was a crash , a hideous , tearing sound as if the bowels of the earth had opened . |
| 48 | Consequently , an item originating from somewhere within the Persian province of Khorassan will simply be called a Khorassan . |
| 49 | From somewhere round the back he heard Caspar barking . |
| 50 | The success of this strategy led , despite a more repressive turn from the later part of the 1960s , to the undermining from within of the formal Francoist system of labour regulation . |
| 51 | Mosley , the rebel with a cause , first tried to reform the system from within during the 1920s . |
| 52 | W. Russell Brain has said : ‘ The surface of the body is a frontier which is perceived from both sides , by vision as part of the external world and from within by the various forms of cutaneous sensibility . ’ |
| 53 | It never showed any sign of collapsing from within in the way that the governing regimes did in 1659 – 60 and 1688 . |
| 54 | It is a beauty wrought out from within upon the flesh , the deposit , little cell by cell , of strange thoughts and fantastic reveries and exquisite passions . |
| 55 | After wintering in London on they travelled in March 1572 up-country to Lancaster and from thence across the first part of the Morecambe Bay sands to their stop-over with the Prestons at Holker . |
| 56 | For this was something which came from right outside the audience 's experience or expectations . |
| 57 | These targets were decided at each location by a management team drawn from right across the site . |
| 58 | She hopes parents from right across the province will join her campaign . |
| 59 | The information provided was gathered electronically from right across the European Community . |
| 60 | ‘ About half a dozen times a year we find tarballs on that coast , which can come from right across the Atlantic , or passing ships could be to blame . ’ |