Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] [adv prt] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above them on the balcony terrace , Alina Petrovna stood a little way back from the parapet . |
| 2 | They stood a little way back from the others as though unsure of their right to be there at all , and they were in bizarre contrast to the rest of the mourners . |
| 3 | The village of Roncevaux is a short way beyond and a little way down from the col ; it consists mainly of the very military-looking monastery and attendant Gothic church created there in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries for the service of pilgrims . |
| 4 | Strichen lies a little way down from the left shoulder of Scotland along which they travelled to reach Inverness . |
| 5 | the top one you just tack round not a little way in from the edge |
| 6 | K. R. One night we had a strange sergeant in from the South End of the city who was filling in for our missing sergeant . |
| 7 | I squeezed the plastic bottle and sent a jet of petrol out of it , over the wick of the lighter , held a few centimetres out from the nozzle by an aluminium tent-peg . |
| 8 | The two men stood side by side a few yards in from the edge of the treeline , examining the layout of the ground between them and the house . |
| 9 | I 'll ask Daddy to give you a few days off from the office . |
| 10 | Her background was a few rungs up from the Jenkinses and that elementary social fact helped to give her a poise in the face of his ever-increasing sureness . |
| 11 | Our cargo of cement was destined for a factory at Tima , a town which lay a few miles back from the riverbank . |
| 12 | First gas started flowing from the field early in November , just a few weeks on from the original target of October . |
| 13 | Seen outside the ‘ homely ’ Bull & Gate pub — just a few doors down from the Town & Country Club where your beloved NME is currently holding its superlative week of talent flaunting — a small sad notice fluttering in the wake of the jostling NICK CAVE-bound hordes , announcing : ‘ HURRAH , onstage tonight at 10.30pm . |
| 14 | They may have gone down the medium wave dial from 10.17 to 8.55 , but their new premises in Ludlow is more than a few steps up from the barn . |
| 15 | The rear door of the car opened and my father was observed to be standing there , a few steps back from the vehicle , gazing steadily into the interior . |
| 16 | Therefore , for 600 rpm , the attitude change would be 3 half-bars , that is a change of one and a half bars down from the existing attitude . |
| 17 | This week , they play three nights at London 's Town & Country Club , which is n't bad , but it 's a high step down from the dizzy heights of packing out Wembley for several shows on the trot as they did five years ago when they were one of the biggest bands in Europe . |
| 18 | ‘ I had a warm tyre on from the beginning and was delighted to be in the lead at York Corner , Portstewart . |
| 19 | They represent a viable spin off from the THORP project control and instrumentation activities . ’ |
| 20 | By the time that Baldwin again met the TUC representatives , at 9 p.m. , he was , by the will of the Cabinet , a long way back from the position of the previous night , and embarrassed by the movement . |
| 21 | Within they are generally planned on a narrow rectangular site , extending a long way back from the road . |
| 22 | and part of that is it 's a long walk back from the |
| 23 | It is a curious turn around from the days when bondholders pleased to be bought out and were driving to drawing lots ! |
| 24 | A beautiful cross in from the left , a dummy by Speed , leaving Wallace to volley home . |
| 25 | Ms Stephens ( 31 ) , a journalist from west London , looked healthy but tired after a gruelling journey back from the Himalayas which began on Thursday with a five-hour march from the base of Everest to Pheriche , the nearest town accessible by helicopter . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's obviously a big step up from the Northern League to the Third Division , so I 'm building up my fitness in the reserves . |
| 27 | And as the all-too-solid original took a single step out from the doorway he dropped the loop of wire over its head and , like a man straining to start an outboard motor , suddenly hauled it tight for all he was worth . |
| 28 | Well you sh you 're supposed to ride a fair way out from the gutter , never in the gutter so they can see you round the bends . |
| 29 | A few of the men had taken a rare day off from the quarries and the recognitions were more generous than Harrison had anticipated . |
| 30 | Hibs reaction to the proposals is still far from clear , but , with a new report out from the council soon the time is coming for decisions to be taken . |