Example sentences of "[adv prt] from his [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Jack came rushing down from his room on the top floor and threw himself down beside Bunty , cradling her head .
2 ‘ Today would have been sheep day in the old days , ’ the driver explained , as he hurried in to take over from his wife at the bar .
3 Only occasionally does the account seem like a patchwork of notes left over from his editorship of the last three volumes of Newton 's Correspondence .
4 Simon Keys came over from his job with the National Rivers Authority in Leeds and Julie Kent , working with the Industrial Ecology Research Centre at Liverpool University came over from this busy consultancy .
5 The Junior Agriculture Minister , Mr David Curry , is having to break off from his campaign in the Skipton and Ripon constituency to represent Britain 's farmers and fishermen at crucial talks in Brussels and Luxembourg next week .
6 ‘ You 'd be wise to forget it , ’ said the wizard , without looking up from his examination of the unconscious Twoflower .
7 Scales got up from his seat at the table in Wycliffe 's little office but Wycliffe waved him back .
8 William got up from his chair at the workbench and went over to open up with a puzzled frown .
9 And , as they walked through the doorway of the big , sunny room , the dark-haired man at the table by the window glanced up from his copy of The Times .
10 Hill admitted too that his father would have been more than surprised to have seen him in action in Monaco three decades on from his supremacy in the 1960s .
11 These healing acts follow directly on from his teaching about the Kingdom .
12 Before the hon. Gentleman moves on from his point about the proposal to locate the health common services authority in the old BBC offices at Gabalfa , perhaps I may take some credit for that not having come to pass .
13 The track ran along the lip of the natural amphitheatre , no trees guarding it from the eighty-foot drop to the small lake , so Trent could look out from his ambush across the track to the meadow below .
14 He had been there at least a week , a stain of blood spreading out from his face across the bottom mattress , his shattered body preserved by the freezing February weather .
15 Artai turned back from his scrutiny of the square .
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