Example sentences of "[adv prt] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Considered as an institutional bridge , Schloss Hartheim was part of my winding down from the experience of the KZ . |
| 2 | Suddenly desperate to put a distance between them , Rory jumped down from the stool to pace restlessly round the kitchen like a caged animal , unhappy in its imprisonment . |
| 3 | One of Beecher 's favourite oratorical gimmicks , which he used to great effect in England , was to lean down from the dais to tell a humorous story but only audible to the front row . |
| 4 | Not just Giles 's spite-filled revenge , but the expression in Nathan Bryce 's eyes as he had gazed down from the dais . |
| 5 | D'Aubigny , however , came down from the dais and shook Agrippa 's hand vigorously before allowing the doctor to introduce both my master and myself . |
| 6 | This may sound harsh , but it seems to me that when we lost our empire our eyes came down from the horizon and looked at our feet . |
| 7 | But it has reached the stage where Group 4 have now ‘ lost ’ Sir Norman ’ — Labour 's Frank Dobson on the announcement that the Tory chairman is to stand down from the board of Group 4 . |
| 8 | Reluctantly , Dot slid down from the bed while Loopy Lil beamed kindly , eyes swivelling in all directions and tried to help wash Dot 's face at the wash-stand and brush her hair . |
| 9 | She slid joyfully down from the bed and hopped across the cold carpet to the window . |
| 10 | He was unfastening the waist of his trousers now , having kicked shoes and socks under a chair , and in helpless fury she bent down to snatch the damp towel from the floor , wrenching it round herself and jumping down from the bed , glaring at him so ferociously that he suddenly burst out laughing . |
| 11 | Gazzer watched her lower herself down from the top of the gates and edge out on one of the beams . |
| 12 | I was going to come charging down from the top of a sand-hill . |
| 13 | At Brooke Parker 's there were men reversing a lorry against the bed of concrete that sloped down from the top of Thorpe Street to the wide loading-doors . |
| 14 | At such times as it was expedient to run water from the Grand Union Canal into the Grand Junction Canal the passing of that water down from the top to the bottom pond , that is a fall of 56 feet and at the rate of say 2 locks per hour , would represent a gross force of 32 h.p. and this force could be utilized by means of a turbine or otherwise for providing power to work the lift . |
| 15 | As Roberto was coming down from the top of his back-swing , the spectators leaned forward on to the fencing causing a crack like thunder . |
| 16 | About twenty metres down from the top , Priestley realized that the tin they had left in the cairn in fact contained their exposed photographic plates , and that what they were carrying down with them was the tin containing the record of their ascent . |
| 17 | I got it down from the top of the wardrobe . |
| 18 | First , decide how far down from the top of the aquarium you wish to position the strengtheners to accommodate any desired equipment inside the top . |
| 19 | The Vicar then took the text for his sermon from the second lesson , ‘ God loveth a cheerful giver ’ , and was so carried away by his own rhetoric that he absent-mindedly helped himself to most of the grapes hanging down from the top of the pulpit . |
| 20 | We spent the whole morning climbing the steep , hard ice in the couloir 's depths , so were somewhat dismayed when two figures skiied up to the base of the couloir , raced up to and past us , virtually dispensing with runners and belays , and then abseiled down from the top of the hard climbing at one third height , passing us again . |
| 21 | The double zip allows you to roll the centre flap up from the bottom , to be fastened at the top or rolled down from the top for quick access . |
| 22 | It was all so sudden it made her feel queer ; affecting her stomach like looking down from the top of a cliff or riding on a Big Dipper . |
| 23 | 10 ( not 10,000 ) were cast down from the top of the rock ( 2 Chronicles 25:12 ) . |
| 24 | Obviously a lot of this racism has seeped down from the top ; for example the police are part of a racist legal system so you 've got to expect them to hold those views . |
| 25 | One by one , the men came down from the top of the rock , and sat with their arms around each other , out of the wind . |
| 26 | PULLING DOWN FROM THE TOP |
| 27 | Personally , I do n't like the exercise of feeling a definite pull down from the top of the backswing . |
| 28 | Erm that erm about erm me father coming down from the top of the ah ah well , this was January the thirty first , nineteen hundred and sixteen and er me father had been up to look after the horses , pigs etc you know , and about eight o'clock he came back and said to my mother that there was a big fire out at Wensbury Me mother and all of us went up there , and er we could see these blazing buildings over there , and er mother immediately said that 's no fire , that 's the Zeppelin 's , and er that 's what it turned out to be , of course . |
| 29 | Pin the tape to the curtain over the heading allowance , fractionally down from the top of the curtain ( fig. 29 ) . |
| 30 | The result is that this type of wave combs material down from the top of the beach giving a net erosive effect . |