Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] [adv prt] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll look at the cricket scores and pretend I 'm some old member in from the shires with a striped blazer and a pink gin in his fist . |
| 2 | Although there is no speaker grille or cloth for protection , the cone does sit some six inches back from the front of the cab , so you would have to be very unlucky for anything to poke that far in through the narrow slot to do any damage . |
| 3 | In a letter to The Times , published on 9 May 1931 , a correspondent signing himself ‘ Old Brightonian ’ recalled an occasion when Woods was bowling in a school match and the wicket-keeper , standing some ten yards back from the wicket , was unable to stop a ball which flashed by him to the boundary but was able to field the stump which the ball had knocked out of the ground . |
| 4 | I , at seventeen , heard the heaviness in his lungs as he sighed , the heaviness in his voice as he fetched those few reluctant words up from the depths inside himself . |
| 5 | He coaxed the Citation through the downwind leg and turned on to final runway heading , some five miles out from the airport . |
| 6 | Today , some five years on from the introduction of Canon 's first mass-market page printing engine , the world no longer revolves around 300dpi . |
| 7 | From this position he could not expect to be prominent going to the first bend , the clubhouse turn , and Shoemaker held him back in about eighth place , some four horses out from the rails , as the runners came past the stands . |
| 8 | The team checked the incline for some 200 yards out from the beach at one point . |
| 9 | The village lay a few hundred yards back from the river across fields of yellow stubble . |
| 10 | Noises of such intensity may seriously affect the ability of cetaceans to communicate and echolocate , especially in cold polar waters where ice cover reflects much underwater noise back from the surface . |
| 11 | She sets out before the sun , driving a team of horses which pull her soft blue chariot up from the depths of the ocean , and shows her brother the way to rise . |
| 12 | I remember one Welsh fellow up from the Valleys — he run home at night-time . |
| 13 | As Douglas and Ramsay stationed their people about one hundred yards out from the gateway , peering to see if the drawbridge was indeed down , they were startled by two figures who materialised out of the gloom from behind a low wall of the forecourt — and were almost leapt upon there and then . |
| 14 | By providing money for so-called buy-back operations , in which countries either bought their own commercial debts back from the banks at deeply discounted levels or , alternatively , simply used the money as collateral when negotiating low-interest bond deals , a number of countries had been able to reschedule their own external obligations on easier repayment terms than had been agreed at the time when they were made . |
| 15 | And in a sense that was how they must view her , a difficult prickly maid up from the country . |
| 16 | This brought two 12-year-old girls down from the video screening upstairs . |
| 17 | Some boys were bringing battered wooden buckets up from the well and the occasional housewife emptied the slops from the night jars out into the middle of the street . |
| 18 | Firemen hauled the middle aged man out from the tank where he was trapped up to his neck . |
| 19 | In total , including Turnham Green , it occupies 13,300 acres of mainly flat land on a gentle south-westerly slope down from the hills of Harrow and Highgate — from 36 feet to 15 feet above the ordnance survey datum — with a fine depth of approximately 40 feet of gravel and sand over London clay , topped by fine vegetable mould . |
| 20 | The cottage stood about two hundred yards back from the road , accessible only by a narrow drive flanked on both sides by stone walls . |
| 21 | And after that she seemed happy the rest of the way , saying how lovely it had been to see them even for such a short time and how she 'd come down again when she could , but it was such a long way and the trains were so crowded with soldiers and she had had to take two whole days off from the ambulance station . |