Example sentences of "[adv prt] from [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , threads dangled down from all life , psychic and non-psychic alike . |
| 2 | White our colour , the colour of limbo : white sands , white rocks , a white light pouring down from all sides . |
| 3 | Straight down from that window was a sheer drop |
| 4 | For 15 years he served as warehouse foreman before stepping down from that position to take responsibility of the new pre-mix plant . |
| 5 | ‘ For the sake of her memory I would n't have hesitated to bring you crashing down from that pedestal if I 'd discovered anything damning about you . ’ |
| 6 | There are mingled in it , as only the greatest of rivers could be mingled , the fertilising influences flowing down from many countries and from many ages in history . |
| 7 | A similar ramp will lead down from this embankment , to pass beneath the bridge that will carry the new road over the East Coast Main Line railway . |
| 8 | He is very unselfishly standing down from this scheme although the Group Captain did offer him a place on it in recognition of his services to the committee . |
| 9 | Spina Bifida children were encouraged to get up and down from this position . |
| 10 | Scores of dazzling white Moorish dwellings stare down from this hilltop village at the shimmering Mediterranean , protected by the impressive peaks of the Sierra Cabrera . |
| 11 | ‘ You can never get down from this tree , ’ Don Mini said . |
| 12 | This lonely spot , at nearly 1700 feet , I call Birkdale Summit in the absence of an official name , the long valley of Birkdale going down from this point to Keld . |
| 13 | However , just as Norman had got up and down from another bunker for his last round of 69 , so did Beck , firmly sinking a putt of six feet as the Australian looked on and reflected on what might have been . |
| 14 | Norman also got up and down from another bunker for a 69 and 277 , spending the next 30 minutes waiting , watching and keeping himself loose with a few twists and turns for the play-off that never happened . |
| 15 | The following day the whole fence can be raked down from both sides to make it shed rain better , and the rakings piled on top . |
| 16 | You will then need to drill a hole in each of the four corners , about 13mm ( ½in ) in from each side , using a drill bit that is slightly larger than the diameter of the four bolts you intend to use . |
| 17 | A centre fixing anchors the top , so that shrinkage now takes place equally in from each side . |
| 18 | Another possibility is to decorate the mount of a pressed flower picture with small groups of flowers , or to arrange a design on a plain backing with no mount , and then create the effect of photographic corners with single flowers and a couple of leaves , arranged about 2. 5cm ( 1in ) in from each corner of the frame . |
| 19 | The raw copy which floods in from many sources is ‘ tasted ’ , selected , sub-edited and , in a remarkably short space of time , some of it appears on the printed page . |
| 20 | Overseas aid came in from many quarters ( including South Africa ) ; the landlocked Zambians brought in health officials from all their neighbours to try to limit the spread of the disease , which nevertheless struck Malawi . |
| 21 | One would have thought that she must have been brought in from that area . |
| 22 | There were some forty of them , moving in from all directions , in gangs of no more than three or four . |
| 23 | Small flocks coming in from all directions joined the first arrivals until many thousands were stretched out in long parallel black lines . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , according to the Annual Register , petitions against the suspension of cash payments came in from all corners . |
| 25 | Both these men became good friends of mine and I frequently visited their homes to deliver large sacks of fan-mail which came in from all parts of the country and the northern U.S.A. |
| 26 | J. D. Hooker collected plants on expeditions to the southern polar regions and to the Himalayas , and soon plants ( in Wardian cases ) were flooding in from all parts of the world . |
| 27 | We opened up the parish hall to the wounded and dead which were brought in from all parts of the village . |
| 28 | We are struggling for a terminal at which trains can come in from all parts of the country , at which there can be an interchange for the continent and at which people can move on relatively quickly . |
| 29 | For years he was a member of the Saturday sub editorial staff processing the comprehensive sports copy flowing in from all parts of the world for Ireland Saturday Night , a newspaper for which he had a deep affection . |
| 30 | The focal point of the town centre is the church , with old buildings threaded by narrow alleyways hemming in from all sides . |