Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] from the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There is Israeli ‘ absentee ’ legislation and there are land expropriation laws passed on from the British mandate . |
| 2 | We got a letter , passed on from the Newcastle office this morning concerning a woman who wants to sell her bungalow . |
| 3 | Thick golden bars of sunlight slanted down from the tall narrow windows . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | Mr Bean got down from the cab , grinning happily . |
| 6 | There 'll be nobody in at this hour ! ’ he repeated loudly , to the men behind as he got down from the jeep . |
| 7 | In Bawiti , the main village of the oasis , Salah got down from the bus and waved us after him . |
| 8 | The young officer got down from the train and went into the station building . |
| 9 | He got down from the cab . |
| 10 | He got down from the wall and walked on . |
| 11 | The driver got down from the cab and walked slowly down the platform and disappeared through a solid wooden door . |
| 12 | She got down from the jeep , straightened her dress and headed back towards the barn . |
| 13 | He got down from the jeep and walked into the villa , his shirt crumpled , and his footsteps weary . |
| 14 | I reckon we got down from The Bells , Chell 's Field , to the bottom of , six , seven minutes . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Someone got in from the sea-wall . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ( IBM never did and probably never will do anything without proper training , planned in from the beginning . |
| 19 | With that , he hopped down from the rock , leaving its previous occupant free rein over the throng . |
| 20 | Replacing Norman Lamont at the Treasury with Kenneth Clarke , drafted in from the Home Office , may improve the government 's image . |
| 21 | A myriad becks tumbled down from the hills into the valleys and dales below , cutting a gorge here or following the old meltwater channels there . |
| 22 | There was a second figure , which they did n't see : high above them , Timothy Gedge gazed down from the cliff-top path . |
| 23 | Five wickets toppled for 65 in the lunch-to-tea period , the first three to a fiery Malcolm , who steamed in from the Nursery end and seemed to think he was Waqar . |
| 24 | The late evening sun slanted in from the west . |
| 25 | In mid-afternoon , Joseph rode down from the lines to organise the packing of the lodges , but , Yellow Wolf recalled : ‘ The women , not knowing the warriors were disagreeing , quitting the fight , had no time to pack the camp . |
| 26 | Eventually I moved on from the blues , picking up on Ronnie Lane again , only by this time The Small Faces had become The Faces . |
| 27 | As the numbers and grades of medreses increased with the passage of time , so also did the numbers and grades of mevleviyets , the term used here in the sense which would appear to have been valid , with minor qualifications , at least from the latter half of the sixteenth century , namely as comprising principally the kazaskerliks and the important kadiliks-the mevleviyet kadiliks — to which one moved on from the higher medreses and through which one moved , if one were fortunate , eventually to reach the kazaskerliks and , by the end of the sixteenth century , the Muftilik . |
| 28 | The horse pounded surefooted along the tunnels , leaping sudden slides of rubble and adroitly sidestepping huge stones as they thundered down from the straining roof . |
| 29 | He rubbed his eyes and peered down from the top bunk . |
| 30 | As the point of the bayonet moved down from the level of his chest he acted without thinking . |