Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv prt] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | quite easy , well it was comparatively easy , only trouble was of course that erm at night erm one had to go right down from County Hall to Barrett Corner to get on the bus because they were so full by the time they got to County Hall and erm so I used to walk down there with erm a chap from the Education Department , who was in the Works and Stores , a chap and erm , he was quite helpful . |
| 2 | And we 'd squared it up once before because there was wires hanging all over from the sp not from the radio , from the speakers . |
| 3 | Gradually , as she lingered over her coffee , the sky became an indigo canopy and a thick layer of cloud moved stealthily in from the Adriatic to obscure the moon and blot out the stars . |
| 4 | Sun struck across the room , bounced fiercely up from the shiny surfaces of containers littering the floor and tossed shadows from the drawers and furniture which had been hurled about . |
| 5 | A narrow path zigzagged steeply down from in front of the colonnade to the shore . |
| 6 | Asik rose to his feet and moved slightly back from the road . |
| 7 | She wanted to jump straight up from this padded and sheet-covered bench , once her blood donation was completed , and go up to Labour and Delivery to see , or at least hear about , Faye , but she knew from experience that giving blood left her drained and tired , and giving two hundred and fifty mils extra tonight would really sap her physical resources . |
| 8 | Tabitha hung her bag on her shoulder and came walking nonchalantly down from the cockpit , not even glancing up to see the great cables gliding rapidly down towards her head . |
| 9 | The palace stands far back from the river , its only access being through fields and orchards which protect it against the vagaries of the Thames . |
| 10 | Remember that most shoals of sizeable bream , say fish of more than 3lb , patrol beats well out from the banks . |
| 11 | ‘ People have to stand well back from the edge of the pavement or else risk being splashed by the mud and water spilling from these ‘ sealed ’ lorries , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Ryker guided the Orion into traffic , keeping well back from the Fiesta . |
| 13 | The earl had sat well back from between the bristling champions , absolving himself from all responsibility here except to keep the peace and harmony of his hall . |
| 14 | He wandered aimlessly on from one squalid street to another . |
| 15 | The friendly voice belonged to Mrs Caskie who lived just along from Maggie and her family . |
| 16 | A couple , arm-in-arm , came slowly up from the direction of the Underground . |
| 17 | The Artificial Horizon is regarded as the master instrument and you scan radially out from this to each of the performance instruments , returning to the Horizon in between each performance instrument check . |
| 18 | Scan radially out from the AH to each performance instrument , returning to the AH each time before proceeding to the next instrument . |
| 19 | One study , for example , has shown that children separated early on from their schizophrenic mothers are not only more likely than control children to become schizophrenic themselves but also show greater artistic and musical talent . |
| 20 | Slopes which are visible from a thousand feet looking straight down from above are far too steep for an easy or safe landing . |
| 21 | ( I can assure you that this book was not written straight through from beginning to end ! ) |
| 22 | He come up the hospital , I was up in intensive care unit and me dad came round about half past ten at night and in he walked , he came straight down from Filey to see him , cos he used to think a lot of dad you see and dad did him years ago , he used to say he was more of a son than me own but then he brought her to the funeral , they would n't speak to me , would n't entertain me at all , I nearly fainted when I saw little one , she 's tall and thin |
| 23 | Rooks protested the disturbance by flapping angrily up from the roadside . |
| 24 | Below us sparkled the Garbh Uisge , bouncing noisily down from the melting snows over jumbled slabs . |
| 25 | He came briefly back from the dead a few minutes later , pulling into a Backdoor tube and getting fried on the reef . |
| 26 | Through the glass the sound of horns and drunken cheering came faintly up from below . |
| 27 | This will prevent any cabbage root flies still around from laying eggs . |
| 28 | got right down from about , what ? |
| 29 | The cloudburst switched itself off as abruptly as it had started , and the moon , peering momentarily out from an ink-black cloudscape , showed a coastal desert of pure white sand backed by low hills of chemical-green and violent reds , cactus everywhere and trucks parked on the dirt verge , most of them painted in livid crimson on white — Optimista , Primero de Mayo , La Virgen . |
| 30 | Her mother was already clambering laboriously down from the seat beside the driver , displaying a lumpy mass of grey woollen stocking and woollen knickers in the process . |