Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] [adv prt] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ mouthpiece ’ and the ‘ horn ’ of the trumpet are both open , and a coil hangs down from the middle . |
| 2 | In the attempt to win society 's approval by a cultured ministry that had both sweetness and light , would Nonconformity produce a ministry cut off from the faithful ? |
| 3 | The coast ( or cliff-top ) walk from the hostel in the other direction led to the delightful settlement of Robin Hood 's Bay , where the slipway resembles a drawbridge let down from the towering sea walls . |
| 4 | Ace opened the door just wide enough for the pair to enter , and slammed it shut just as a brick arced over from the darkened bushes . |
| 5 | At each dip , a wave spreads out from the stick across the water . |
| 6 | Led by Major Ronnie Tod , 30 men went ashore and had hardly been gone a few minutes when Dudley Clarke and the commander saw the dark outline of a boat coming in from the sea . |
| 7 | A dipper flew up from the burn as I emerged from the hut , his white breast flashing as he darted downstream . |
| 8 | He was particularly adept , this one , at stopping a forward bursting through from the line-out with a startling iron-hard thrust from his stump as he pulled him on to it with the other … |
| 9 | For as to the last oracle , the Gospels had been left open , and there was a wind blew through from the south doorway and ruffled the pages over , turning back from John to Matthew . |
| 10 | A professor came down from the university to investigate the project . |
| 11 | Chatterjee told this idea to Bikash Sinha , Director of the Calcutta Cyclotron , during a car ride back from the springs in 1984 . |
| 12 | Nineteen Cubans and Spaniards were allowed to disembark , plus three passengers with authentic visas ; the remaining 900 or so Jews waited for news of the negotiations which involved , variously , the Cuban President , his director of immigration , the shipping line , the local relief committee , the ship 's captain and a lawyer flown in from the New York headquarters of the Joint Distribution Committee . |
| 13 | And er I 'd got a key to get in from the works into the office once I was inside , but that was access to the works you know and er I er I en I enjoyed it more or less and I must say the firm , to some extent , looked up to me and I 'd only got to have a damned machine stop , where the girls was working on this machine , and the bobbin shop and all that sort of thing , and I was able to go look er , down and say look here I want this . |
| 14 | Well I , I was sitting in my house one night on the , I think it would be er nineteen fifty four , and a deputation came up from the ward committee to see me and wondered if I would join the council . |
| 15 | A body to take over from the Wagner Development Group . |
| 16 | Corbett dismounted and looked around , noting that the tower was not as vulnerable as would at first appear : narrow slits pierced the walls and a machicolation jutted out from the parapet just above the tower door from where defenders could hurl stones , or boiling oil , on any attackers . |
| 17 | It was a tiny place — nothing more than a shop knocked through from the street at ground level , no more than 60 feet long At one end was a small bar — from which we sold orange juices on top of the counter with the booze tucked away underneath . |
| 18 | A cart pulled out from the courtyard , driven by a soldier taking the two coffins down to the village church where the priest would sing a requiem and those two pathetic brothers be buried and , in time , forgotten . |
| 19 | We go with him , and our sisters too , and sometimes a hare jumps out in front of us or a pheasant flies up from the ditch . |
| 20 | " Hazel , " said Speedwell suddenly , " there 's a rabbit coming down from the warren . |
| 21 | The latter allows both parties a chance to stand back from the daily routine and take a harder look at overall performance . |
| 22 | A wall goes down from the road straight as a die to Ease Gill and a walk alongside leads in a few minutes to a small hole in the ground that opens into lengthy passages below : this is Short Drop Cave . |
| 23 | At its highest point , a turn to the right up a pathless incline leads to the subsidiary height of pike which has two cairns ; from here the route , still pathless , heads due south , passing the three Whernside Tarns and rises to join a wall coming up from the left , this being kept alongside to the summit . |
| 24 | Just then , a tanker drove up from the south and the driver confirmed my suspicions . |
| 25 | Her eyes were drawn by the impenetrable blackness of the alleys between the parade of houses opposite , a clutch of raucous youths tumbling out of a Victorian plastic pub on the corner and a drunk dressed in a greasy jacket sitting on a bench set back from the road . |
| 26 | A cheer went up from the worshippers , who donned masks of animal heads . |
| 27 | A cheer went up from the nomes . |
| 28 | When at last the French coast came in sight , a cheer went up from the soldiers on deck . |
| 29 | A rising sound between a crow and a cheer came up from the men . |
| 30 | A cheer rang out from the natives assembled above the melon beds ; it could be heard even over the boom of cannons and rattle of musketry . |