Example sentences of "from over " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Come on , Angus , ’ Donald persisted , ‘ let us hear a song from over the mountains . |
| 2 | The sceptics did not deny that by means of what was traditionally called an ‘ empirical ’ sign we might be led to indirect knowledge of something temporarily hidden : smoke from over the building is a sign that there is a fire behind . |
| 3 | I had seen that look somewhere before , and memory suggested two pictures : one was from an old history book and showed Marie Antoinette on her way to the guillotine — ‘ The Queen went forth , stately and calm ’ ; , the other ( ‘ Tales from over the Border ’ ) showed a beautiful girl withdrawing modestly while a Highland chief petitioned her father for her hand in marriage . |
| 4 | The voice from over the way was equally cold . |
| 5 | Only the Elizabethan English stayed foreign , as they were absentee landlords , and ruled from over the water . ’ |
| 6 | Until that moment Evelyn had not realized exactly what had taken place when she had been let down from over the machine . |
| 7 | The first specks of light rain fell on Trent 's face as he looked up to see the motor yacht 's captain studying him from over the brilliantly-varnished taffrail . |
| 8 | ‘ From over that way I think , ’ said Laura , pointing . |
| 9 | Psychiatrists envisaged that curare might be useful in relieving muscular tension and so diminish the feedback from over active muscles which perpetuates a sense of anxiety in tense patients . |
| 10 | There was a strange rasping noise coming from over the next rise . |
| 11 | The rain was hammering on the perspex roof , gurgling in the gutters , and the four horses gazed at them hopefully from over the refrigerator tops , making funny little whickering noises for food . |
| 12 | The sound came from over the garden wall and I knew that no-one in that part of Gigant Street kept chicken . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't like it , ’ said the thin man ; ‘ that came from over there , from the way we 've come . ’ |
| 14 | Clinging with toes and with knees , he leaned into the wall and drew an arrow , fast , from over his shoulder . |
| 15 | Choose a dessert from over the page or serve cheese . |
| 16 | She seemed to be more pleased with that , and flashing me a grin from over her shoulder went off towards the Clubhouse entrance . |
| 17 | The second , known as hypochondriacs , tended to swallow a large number of useless potions purchased from over the chemist 's counter . |
| 18 | In most historical cultures , we discover peoplehood , ethnicity , kinship , certainly placehood , various bindings and unbinding : the people from here , and the people from over there . |
| 19 | ‘ They put in whatever they choose , whether or not it 's in the text : and it ai n't worth suing them from over here . |
| 20 | With England now the enemy , this was inevitably one of the most vulnerable places in the northern kingdom — and indeed had been captured early in the Wars of Independence by Edward Plantagenet and remained in English hands ever since , its garrison readily supplied and reinforced from over the nearby Border . |
| 21 | And when he learned their numbers , he could seek reinforcements for his five hundred from over the Border , from the castle garrison , even from Dunbar . |
| 22 | ‘ We 've had a lot of conflicting information from over there . |
| 23 | She pulled her hair out from over the patchcord , and passed her fingers through it . |
| 24 | And others she did n't recognize : a young woman from over the sea , sometimes dressed in a nun 's habit , sometimes holding a clear-handled gun ; a foreign man , dark-complexioned and dangerous , his hands red with blood ; a beautiful young-old man with generous lips , picking up a guitar and smiling ; and a man in a tropical suit , with a deathshead skull behind his smile . |
| 25 | No sooner had Derek Bevan blown the final whistle at Twickenham , than faint noises could be heard from over the horizon . |
| 26 | MOST VISITORS to Scotland intent on seeing the best of the scenery , and especially those coming from over the Border , tend to travel northwards in stages , halting often to view places already familiar or else recommended in guidebooks . |
| 27 | Published in association with The British Council , and with IATEFL , the ELT Journal provides a truly international forum for the exchange of ideas and information , with contributors and subscribers from over one hundred countries . |
| 28 | You 'd think there were n't enough caddies to choose from over here . ’ |
| 29 | large plates of rock seem only marginally attached as I follow the rope tugging gently from over my shoulder . |
| 30 | Counties ranged in population from about 2 million ( Lancashire ) to less that 30,000 ( Rutland ) ; county boroughs ranged from over 1 million ( Birmingham ) to 33,000 ( Canterbury ) — less than the minimum population stipulated in 1888 . |