Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [adv prt] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The capes are famous for a confused and ugly swell , and peculiar lumps of wind that crash down from the coastal peaks of the Taurus Mountains . |
| 2 | Its nostrils are placed at the ends of two extremities that grow out from the side of its head . |
| 3 | The chill of the early morning was dispersing under the grey cloud base that spread in from the west . |
| 4 | Eight-inch ( 20 cm ) flying lizards that live in the forests of Sumatra , Java and Borneo can make glides of up to 66 ft ( 20 m ) on membranes supported by elongated ribs that spread out from the body in flight . |
| 5 | The main access is via steps that drop down from the street between walls that tend to increase visual tension . |
| 6 | Beds that fold down from the wall when they are needed have lost their makeshift image and have been updated to a new smooth efficiency and now come complete with a wall of closets or wardrobes . |
| 7 | People who had driven him further and further into the woods that slope down from the Common towards the mam road to the south-west . |
| 8 | Actually the healing is not usually in the wings it 's in the hands that come out from the sun and the healing is the of Ancient Egypt which meant life , spirit and er and health . |
| 9 | ‘ There do your kind fly , Slorne , soaring on the winds that rise up from the hot land , circling over their sites as they seek their prey of mammal and carrion , or chase a black-winged kite from off their food … ’ |
| 10 | It is difficult even to name them , for I sense that they are urges and longings that spring up from the deep , like streams of water gathering in the darkness below ground before they emerge through the rock into the light of day . |
| 11 | It came from a tributary passage that lead off from the main corridor at a curious angle . |
| 12 | Luke moved through a doorway that lead off from the right of the hallway and disappeared from view . |
| 13 | They raise them to shoulder level , and back off from the small crowd . |
| 14 | The two of us stand next to his second hole unable to distinguish sky and lake and cut off from the other pair . |
| 15 | But more importantly it is a good starting place for exploring the lesser known eastern valleys which are peaceful , quiet and cut off from the rest of the Lake District . |
| 16 | Rome , unlike Avignon ( and , indeed , many other cities ) was inconveniently placed for easy relations with most of Europe and cut off from the north-west , where the papacy 's influence was strongest , by the great mountain range of the Alps . |
| 17 | If you find this difficult to understand , take any of your punchcards , and count up from the first pattern row to the number 1 in the margin . |
| 18 | Turn the lights out and stand back from the door ! ’ said the bearded man . |
| 19 | Lay the curtains out flat and measure up from the creased hemline to mark the finished length of the curtains ( top edge ) with a row of tacking stitches across the width of the curtain . |
| 20 | Keep a good lookout and stay back from the line a little so that you do n't get into problems with people on starboard tack , then look for a gap to tack into . |
| 21 | The first one will keep the rope taut as you move offstage and run round the back and take over from the second helper who has been keeping the ‘ load ’ end taut . |
| 22 | I suppose I thought she 'd either be fantastically frosty and sit on one of those little gilt chairs with a fancy gilt mirror behind her , or else be quite fat and red-faced and come in from the stove holding a wooden spoon and give me a huge embrace smelling of garlic and stockpot . |
| 23 | So why not bluff and come in from the left ? |
| 24 | Bond 's technical wizard Q ( Desmond Llewellyn ) and new assistant Eve Barker , from BBC 's Born Kicking , realise the security implications and come out from the shadowy world of espionage to help publicise them . |