Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly struggling up from the depths of deep unconsciousness , Laura flicked open her eyelids , only to shut them firmly again as she winced at the brilliant sunshine flooding in through the windows of the bedroom . |
| 2 | The force is rightly stepping back from the limelight . |
| 3 | And for those determined enough to stand out from the crowd by virtue of understatement , that may well be enough . |
| 4 | Twenty years ago , many of the smaller economies were more or less cut off from the world market economy . |
| 5 | Erm I suppose what we ought to focus on , is not so much the details of the ethnography so came up from the study , but erm but some of them are almost thieves |
| 6 | The first time I get on , it is often after spending a few hours with them , and I kinda transfer over from the stable door to their backs . ’ |
| 7 | He had almost resigned himself to the fact that this cop was too cautious to be caught out like the one he had almost jumped five nights previously , when without warning the man below stepped out from the shelter of the deep doorway . |
| 8 | Lavas become scarcer amongst rocks of more acid compositions and rhyolites are much less abundant than andesites They are highly viscous , never flowing far from their source , and usually merely ooze up from the vent like toothpaste to pile up into short , thick flows and domes . |
| 9 | The smoke and steam was being sucked from the wreck by the storm wind anyway , and as it cleared Duvall suddenly shrank back from the shattered car window . |
| 10 | Several papers report on Goldie the goldfish which was apparently brought back from the dead when its owner gave it the kiss of life and poured whisky down its throat . |
| 11 | Actually I find it easier to put in the mortgage details which is page li er pa line three and any outstanding bills and loans and then basically find out from the person how much they need on top of that |
| 12 | He did not take his readers back into history so much as bring Thomas Paine , William Hazlitt , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Sir Walter Scott [ qq.v. ] , and others forward , as if they had suddenly walked in from the street . |
| 13 | I could tell you that the eyes were so beautiful they could actually make you feel giddy when he suddenly looked up from the floor and straight at you . |
| 14 | When the adventurers are halfway across the room four foul , mutated forms suddenly spring up from the corpses and attack . |
| 15 | After a minute or two the Asian suddenly slid out from the side of the big curtains and then stopped , a tray of drinks and ice creams round his neck . |
| 16 | The charge is let in or out of each capacitor by its own switch but the charge continually drains away so it needs to be constantly topped up from the mains or battery . |
| 17 | Noise was already filtering through from the lounge and the veranda , where the house guests had gathered . |
| 18 | In fact , I 've just flown back from the States today , and you 'll be glad to hear that the doctors assured me that Liz and Owen are on the road to a full recovery . ’ |
| 19 | It just bounced in from the garden . |
| 20 | ‘ These have just come through from the printers . ’ |
| 21 | Well it was if it 's only just come through from the fryer |
| 22 | Then , when the horse is brought out of the stable , instead of just walking quietly along ( which it would if it had just come in from the paddock ) , it is jumping out of its skin , ready to spook and shy at anything , nostrils dilated , eyes bulging , and tail hoisted high . |
| 23 | It was quite soon after the terrible motor accident that had crippled him for life , and she had just come in from the garden with a bunch of flowers for him . |
| 24 | ‘ This report has just come in from the Environments Officer . |
| 25 | A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've just come back from the Thomas Garlands ’ place , sir . ’ |
| 27 | An Oxford aid worker who 's just come back from the Croatian capital Zagreb , says the situation there is getting out of hand . |
| 28 | I 'm not being rude now , I 've just come back from the Gambia and I have n't stopped |
| 29 | There is a dusting of snow in Cwm Glas Mawr and above , while clouds have just rolled back from the summit ridge . |
| 30 | The CAT scan apparently showed no damage to the brain , so it was something of a shock to the doctors as well as to Dawn 's parents when she finally came round from the coma after about a week with a left hemiplegia . |