Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] from [art] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The driver got down from the cab and walked slowly down the platform and disappeared through a solid wooden door . |
| 2 | He got down from the wall and walked on . |
| 3 | In Bawiti , the main village of the oasis , Salah got down from the bus and waved us after him . |
| 4 | ‘ Christ , Piper , that 's all we need , the bloody Navy ! ’ burst out Taff as two sailors got down from the jeep and started to unload their gear . |
| 5 | He got down from the jeep and walked into the villa , his shirt crumpled , and his footsteps weary . |
| 6 | The young officer got down from the train and went into the station building . |
| 7 | Each dance should arise naturally from the context and reveal something about one or another or all the characters in reaction to a series of situations . |
| 8 | Scotch Whisky is inseparable from Scotland … of all the spirits mankind has distilled , refined and enhanced from nature 's huge store of goodness , Scotch Whisky is the noblest … a distillation of the natural riches with which Scotland is so abundantly endowed … clear waters tumbling down from the hills and across the moors , though peat and over granite … fields of golden barley … the cool , pure air . |
| 9 | As the froth turns in from the sides and the coffee begins to rise in the pot , it is removed from the heat and a little is poured into each cup to distribute the froth . |
| 10 | In this damp clay I had left footprints , and over these footprints I now found the splayed-out pug marks of the tigress where she had jumped down from the rocks and followed me , until the kakar had seen her and given its alarm-call , whereon the tigress had left the track and entered the bushes where I had seen the movement . |
| 11 | ‘ so you really think , ’ she said , ‘ that that poor little chap is going to zoom in from the clouds and wipe us all out ? ’ |
| 12 | On being told that the men still unaccounted for could not be contacted by the trapped men , the Manager asked for a volunteer to go down from the surface and search inwards from the main shaft . |
| 13 | With their emphasis on a world of forest spirits and magical dominations , they seem to have differed little from the experiences and practices of mainland Northern Europe . |
| 14 | Kathleen moved slowly from the doorway and shook her head , without speaking . |
| 15 | People were climbing down from the truck and seemed to be forming another queue . |
| 16 | A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time . |
| 17 | The train had come in from the sidings and stood in the station , warm and pulsing , its engines reattached , the horses and grooms on board and fresh foods and ice loaded . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They confirmed there was a landing before the platoon moved down from the hill and astride the road west of Dili , where a Bren gun team caught a marching column of Japanese . |
| 20 | The moon , I thought briefly , had come down from the sky and was dancing about in the wood not far ahead . |
| 21 | Eye-witness Maureen Darwin , who was waiting to board one of the US-bound jumbos , said : ‘ It was as if a giant unseen hand had come down from the heavens and just lifted the planes up and across the tarmac . |
| 22 | At last , with Greg 's help , they managed to get him on to a stretcher to which he was firmly secured with nylon strapping so that it was virtually impossible for him to move , then the stretcher was carefully lifted down from the jig and into the waiting ambulance . |
| 23 | Slim , elegant pintails rose suddenly from the water and flew , a small flight of nine , the curving white line on slender necks and the long tail feathers clearly visible . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Hawks may swoop down from the sky and carry one off . |
| 26 | Dogs , noisily barking , wandered in from the courtyard and were busy sniffing amongst the rubbish . |
| 27 | It is n't so long ago that the advocates of population control were being attacked not from the right but from the left . |
| 28 | Marcus jerked away from the contact and lashed out , pushing Pete onto his backside . |
| 29 | The advance was to have been made during the hours of darkness and across country , keeping away from the roads and lanes . |
| 30 | He had walked the length of the state , his waterskin slung over his shoulder , keeping away from the roads and the gangcults . |