Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] from " in BNC.

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1 And the Postman 's spectacle was covered in greenflies from the vigorous activity up the tree : " No , but I says to him " — " Really , all right " — " Well " — " and " — " Oh , you 've done it " — " Must go down to the " — " Taps , got to get some " went the song to the rhythm of empty beer bottles dropping into the side pocket receptacles of tree-holder number 29 on the dustmen 's route — and the tip-holding pockets for the dustmen were not full or anything cos the ladies had all forgotten their purses , and the paper , folding , crumpled , torn money had long since fluttered down from their knicker-elastic banks .
2 But it stuck in his mind that getting to England was something perilous and rare like rounding the Horn , it must have had something to do with his allowing himself to get so wholly cut off from Constanza later on .
3 A quick reminder , many people will know , but a quick reminder and er , if you 've perhaps just come back from holiday yourself , or you 're one of our new listeners , you may not know so I 'll tell you , Douglas Cameron 's Breakfast Call , this very programme , will be breaking new ground at the end of next month .
4 I have only just flown in from Paris and I am very tired . ’
5 Especially since I 'd only just arrived back from Paris . ’
6 It 's staying on the dual carriageway , well I went round Steven 's to see if he thought to tow it round mine cos the already been on my back once oh no he said I 've only just walked in from work I 'm having my tea then I 'm going to bed he said , there 's no way I 'm towing no motor for the he said , just f off !
7 Well it was if it 's only just come through from the fryer
8 And Rodger has only just come back from three weeks ' rehabilitation at Lilleshall .
9 He 'd only just got right from flu .
10 Of course , we have only just got back from our honeymoon . ’
11 He did not think there would be any point in Sara travelling to Wellingham that evening , especially as she had only just got back from abroad .
12 Hello er , I 'm phoning on behalf of Mrs Ada er she 's got to come in for a scan on the fourth of February , nine o'clock , now we 've only just got back from the hospital today , cos she oh , she had to go today for one , yeah , and we 've just
13 The results suggested that the birds might have sharply tuned preferences only slightly displaced away from siblings when normally reared .
14 This does not mean that those areas were not occupied , however , and , although settlements were less densely packed away from the well-drained , easily-worked gravel , they certainly existed , as is shown by fieldwork and excavations in advance of road schemes .
15 She could be pretty , she decided , if her hair were not so tightly scraped back from her face and if her eyes shone with eagerness , as they did at this moment .
16 The individual sounds of other species may not be so readily recognized purely from instinct , though it seems highly likely that the unborn infant , while still in the mother 's womb , especially in its latter days , would be able to hear such external sounds and be aware of its mother 's response .
17 When the ice at last melted and the seas rose , Sri Lanka had not only drifted apart from its parent India , it had become cut off by an ocean gap of approximately 20 miles ( 32 km ) .
18 In summary , she had not only slipped away from their definitions of appropriate female behaviour , she also forced them to acknowledge a strange and unexpected relationship of equality between her and her God .
19 Blue watchers are saying that IBM chief John Akers will be out by March or April and that the company in its infinite wisdom will give the job to one of those retired IBMers it just just brought back from the pasture , probably Kaspar Cassoni .
20 Yet Malaysia has not always gained greatly from the sales of assets , such as shares in its airline and the container terminal at port Klang .
21 After the very earliest period of relative non-differentiation of functions , in which the ‘ literary ’ or ‘ artistic ’ had not or not fully separated out from the more generally ‘ cultural ’ , there had been this phase of specifically instituted artists , which should not really be described in terms taken from later phases , such as ‘ official recognition ’ or ‘ patronage ’ .
22 As I have not yet heard back from you since then , I wonder if you could confirm that you are still interested in receiving a copy of the tape ?
23 Kenya , Uganda and Tanzania , the countries bordering the lake , have been reluctant to invest in preserving a fishing industry that has not yet suffered economically from the ecological damage .
24 Researches under the auspices of Britain 's Rare Breeds Survival Trust suggest that the indigenous breeds have not yet diverged enough from each other for a high frequency of chromosomal polymorphism to be established and in most of them the similarities far outweigh the differences .
25 It looks like it see cos they 're not actually sent out from here they 're
26 I know you 've just recently come back from Uganda .
27 I later discovered that the area was one of those settled by the original Spanish conquistadores in the 1560s ; by 1980 , Loreto itself , still largely cut off from the outside world , consisted only of a church , a school and five houses , although there were many more Indian families in houses scattered through the surrounding forest .
28 We were once more cut off from reality in our underground prison .
29 The number of patients who have waited for 12 months or more also decreased significantly from 367 to 293 , ’ says the report .
30 Habitat similar to Spotted Eagle , but more often seen away from water .
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