Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] from the " in BNC.

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1 TAFF Gregory , the Army cook who won a Gulf War BEM ( Eating Out August 14 ) , has quickly marched on from the Hartforth Hall Hotel at Gilling West , near Richmond .
2 Unlike Schleiermacher , Hegel had a large number of followers who sought to carry on from the point he had reached .
3 Well the thing is you see I think wha from what I 've gathered on from the radio programme is that the actual erm the attitude of the kids to the metro had got so much worse that they 're having to do something about it
4 There is Israeli ‘ absentee ’ legislation and there are land expropriation laws passed on from the British mandate .
5 We got a letter , passed on from the Newcastle office this morning concerning a woman who wants to sell her bungalow .
6 Thick golden bars of sunlight slanted down from the tall narrow windows .
7 Having started the match eight points down from the first leg , Hemel spent the first half apparently doing everything they could to double the deficit .
8 The big challenge came from everybody 's favourite Ginny Leng … she was riding Welton Romance and after racing around the 28 fence course was just two penalty points down from the leader … less than once fault in the showjumping …
9 Could you repeat the bit about the insect-headed aliens gazing down from the spinning globules of light ?
10 ‘ BEST decision I 've ever made in my life , ’ said Des Walker , gazing down from the terrace of his Genoese apartment at sunlit rocks and ocean .
11 ‘ Christ , Piper , that 's all we need , the bloody Navy ! ’ burst out Taff as two sailors got down from the jeep and started to unload their gear .
12 Mr Bean got down from the cab , grinning happily .
13 There 'll be nobody in at this hour ! ’ he repeated loudly , to the men behind as he got down from the jeep .
14 In Bawiti , the main village of the oasis , Salah got down from the bus and waved us after him .
15 The young officer got down from the train and went into the station building .
16 He got down from the cab .
17 He got down from the wall and walked on .
18 The driver got down from the cab and walked slowly down the platform and disappeared through a solid wooden door .
19 She got down from the jeep , straightened her dress and headed back towards the barn .
20 He got down from the jeep and walked into the villa , his shirt crumpled , and his footsteps weary .
21 I reckon we got down from The Bells , Chell 's Field , to the bottom of , six , seven minutes .
22 Measuring applause does not reveal that the movie was memorable for the woman in the third row because the building on screen reminded her of where she went to school and all those childhood memories came flooding back intercut with the film while the auditorium gently shook as an underground train passed beneath and cigarette ash fluttered down from the balcony in the projector beam .
23 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 .
24 National Guardsmen and military police flown in from the USA to help stem looting in the immediate aftermath of the hurricane were withdrawn gradually towards the end of the year .
25 French military reinforcements , 150 troops , had been flown in from the Central African Republic to evacuate foreign nationals in Kigali .
26 The competitors were in various categories for judging and were to be judged by professionals specially flown in from the States .
27 Ember , thumping down from the sunflower against the bitter chocolate of the Martian sky .
28 ‘ Someone got in from the sea-wall .
29 When I got in from the airport — yesterday , give or take a week — the flat felt lightly dishevelled , hurriedly lived-in , as if the cleaning-lady 's efforts had been briskly cancelled or mussed .
30 Dyson let the clutch in with a belated jerk which brought some hard and heavy object tumbling down from the dashboard to hit Bill Waddy on the knee and roll away out of sight beneath the front seats .
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