Example sentences of "[noun] a [adj] [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were speedily , if only temporarily , relieved of their worries when a head appeared amidst the gently rolling waves a short distance from the beach , which soon resolved into the — quite pleasing — shape of a woman struggling exhaustedly out of the sea and up the beach beside the jetty . |
| 2 | I took a seat a little way from the knot of people that formed the main body of our party . |
| 3 | Unknown to the army press office , the RUC had stopped the car , from which the shots had come , at a roadside vehicle search a short distance from the scene . |
| 4 | They found a cafe a short distance from the car park . |
| 5 | There does not seem to me to be anything in the policy of the new Act which suggests that in this provision Parliament was intending to give those words a different meaning from those which they had been held to bear under the Act of 1914 . |
| 6 | Shifting slightly , he drilled a new indentation a few inches from the original . |
| 7 | It is in this sense that Nizan 's revolutionary literature demands a great deal from the reader . |
| 8 | The other humans said something , and the box was cautiously put down on the gravel a few feet from Masklin . |
| 9 | It is a wonderful fact that I should be affected , and thus deeply and powerfully , more than by aught else in all my experience — that this fruit should be borne in me sprung from a seed finer than the spores of fungi , floated from other atmospheres ! finer than the dust caught in the sails of vessels a thousand miles from land ! |
| 10 | She was brought up in Cramer , a coastal village a few miles from Dunstanburgh . |
| 11 | The old man had a house built for him in a pretty little Warwickshire village a few miles from Stratford , with the Avon flowing through the garden . |
| 12 | ‘ As the cockle-gatherers of Penclawdd , the seaside village a few miles from the Eisteddfod field realise only too well , the ebb never leaves empty-handed it leaves behind traces of new life . |
| 13 | I can not imagine what sort of place this gentleman imagined he was coming to in bringing the latter , but I must say it struck something of an odd note to see in Darlington Hall these two large silent men staring suspiciously in all directions a few yards from wherever the Italian gentleman happened to be . |
| 14 | Half way to the door I swivelled and , as if simply following the script of this particular hangover , strolled back to the table and came to a halt with my hands in my pockets a few feet from Davis 's chair . |
| 15 | Behind the sundial there were a few trees , some of them in flower : a small path led into their deceptive shallow depths , and there , in a hollow a few yards from a high brick wall that bordered the garden , stood a sculpture . |
| 16 | Emily Bond a new name from Gloucestershire did best of all … she beat Heidi Hogh 6-1 6-0 but just failed to make the quarter finals … |
| 17 | The mines inspectorate have admitted to Public Eye , the roof bolting method next to old workings underground made Bilsthorpe a different case from normal , but they stress the system was carefully examined before it was allowed . |
| 18 | As she put down her cases a large shiny 1935 Armstrong Siddeley car came around a bend in the station drive and braked to a halt a short distance from her . |
| 19 | In this way , the model can be brought to a halt a short distance from the ground with all of the blade energy and pitch range still available to make the landing . |
| 20 | The file brought with it a twinge of now familiar guilt ant a covering note from Army Intelligence : Will you please try and persuade the creepy-crawlies that we have neither the facilities nor any reason to investigate this lady 's apparent disappearance . |
| 21 | Relief work and voluntary aid continues , which is what brought truck drivers Dick and Ray a long way from their Oxford homes to deliver important equipment to the struggling hospitals and orphanages . |
| 22 | He rose and staggered out and we followed him into a stinking alleyway a short distance from the tavern . |
| 23 | These cells have their origin a long distance from the sex organs . |
| 24 | Like Britain , Mr Bush may find Russia a useful diversion from talking about a recession . |
| 25 | In the opening minute of the second half a good pass from Johnny Gregg to Ritchie Moffett inside the visiting circle opened the score for Newry . |
| 26 | If you do much watering by can a long way from a tap , get a matching pair , each holding 2 gallons . |
| 27 | Keith Pennyfeather , a senior countryside officer with the commission said : ‘ Much of the restoration being carried out on the Pennine Way inevitably occurs at remote sites a considerable distance from the nearest road . |
| 28 | She dyed some of the rice grains a different colour from the background , these grains were easy to see : she dyed other grains the same colour as the background , which made them difficult to see . |
| 29 | ‘ None whatsoever , ’ he drawled , eyeing the lively antics that were taking place a few yards from them . |
| 30 | Charles was taking the job a long way from the safe arena of charitable patronage and ribbon-cutting and into politically dangerous areas , where constitutionally , he ought not to be . |