Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] from [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gazing down from his plinth in Lichfield , you could almost hear Dr Johnson muttering : ‘ Socialism , Sir , is a cow , which will yield such people no more milk — and so they are gone to milk the bull ’ . |
| 2 | Roxborough finished his drink and got down from his stool , then collected Pascoe 's beer mug and prepared to dive into the crush at the bar . |
| 3 | ‘ Then one evening this down-to-earth painter from Harrow got down from his ladder to talk to someone at the end of the passage . |
| 4 | Then he got down from his chair and went to stand by Hepzibah . |
| 5 | One day , when the lord was stepping down from his carriage , which he drove himself , he was shot dead outside his gate . |
| 6 | Meanwhile Georgina 's family have travelled down from their home in Gloucester to be at their daughter 's bedside . |
| 7 | He wondered whether it was a hereditary factor , passed down from her father , gained by him through osmosis . |
| 8 | He will carry on from me , perhaps , as I have carried on from my father . |
| 9 | He had come in from his dressing room and Eileen was waiting , dressed and ready for the dinner party . |
| 10 | Throughout the months preceding the launching I had paid numerous visits to Brooke Marine yard , either calling there in Venturous with the training crews , or latterly driving down from my home in Felixstowe , conveniently situated a mere forty miles up the coast . |
| 11 | The Warbutt had not come down from his tower to wish his son farewell , and Bicker was grim and silent with his cloak held up around his mouth and ice crystals forming on it where his breath froze . |
| 12 | He 'd remember me , too , because he would have wondered what percentage I had on him that entitled me to come down from her apartment in the early morning . |
| 13 | And what pride she had , that transcended her meagre purse and the threadbare pelisse that so little kept out the winter cold that she still wore it inside the house , and had been obliged to come down from her room to seek a little warmth from the dying fire . |
| 14 | ‘ When the Gruagach came storming down from their city to take Tara , Gruagach was taken by the Geimreadh . |
| 15 | ‘ I moved over from our house in Nimes with Raphael after Eric but now he is going to Manchester we 're staying here to live . |
| 16 | A few things that have come up from our sub-committee meeting on Monday evening ; first , thanks for your quote for computers , and I 've got the application form from SNH to apply for a grant to buy it . |
| 17 | Such was the slowness and enclosedness of all her movements that the girls instinctively looked up from their school books to follow her closely . |
| 18 | In fact , if he had n't looked up from his coffee and spotted her in the doorway , Caroline might have returned to her room and waited until she was sure he 'd gone . |
| 19 | Add to those characteristics the meticulous almost fussy ways which Anthony has picked up from his father , and you have a close family likeness — yet to Anthony they are almost completely unacknowledged and unrecognised . |
| 20 | Jamie looks up from his plate , the fork suspended . |
| 21 | If I am lucky a red fire-boat may come storming up from its station on the Grand Canal . |
| 22 | And then with a desperate movement he drew back from her grasp , his breath rasping in his chest . |
| 23 | And is it some cosmic joke that the texture of grey hair so completely different from the texture of the rest , so that each one stands out from your head like a bolt of lighting ? |
| 24 | ‘ Cantona has been making things happen for us since he arrived here , ’ said Ferguson , who believes United will bounce back from their surprise reverse at Oldham . |
| 25 | The man looking down at her wore an imposing set of whiskers , a grey beard hung down over his brightly coloured waistcoat and thick , waving grey hair sprouted back from his forehead , giving him the look of an ageing lion . |
| 26 | MILLWALL 'S American import Kasey Keller bounced back from his clanger at Highbury to pull off two brilliant saves to keep the Lions alive . |
| 27 | I think the one clear thing to come out from my study is that erm with very careful preparation and with adequate thought about teaching methods that a school can successfully go over to mixed ability teaching without any necessary impact on the standards of performance of the pupils , and this has really been justified recently in the O level results of pupils who have now been through the mixed ability system and finished their O levels in the school . |
| 28 | I think the one clear thing to come out from my study is that with very careful preparation and with adequate thought about teaching reference , that a school can successfully go over to mixed ability teaching without any necessary impact on the standards of performance of the pupils . |
| 29 | She 'd packed her bags knowing that whatever else happened she had to go back home to find out from her mother just who her father was . |
| 30 | The defendant was arrested when he again opened the door to find out from his friend where he was being taken . |