Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] from the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Unlike Schleiermacher , Hegel had a large number of followers who sought to carry on from the point he had reached . |
| 2 | Even as I write , my heart is being ‘ roasted ’ because of the pounding music beat coming down from the flat above me . |
| 3 | She tried to make out from the hill , as she jogged down the track , whether the ferryboat was plying among the craft in the harbour . |
| 4 | And , every twenty minutes or so , a storm broke : thunder rumbled , lightning flickered , and tropical rain came crashing down from the showerheads fitted in the ceiling . |
| 5 | As he entered the paved courtyard the rain came whipping in from the sea , lashing against the car and obliterating everything . |
| 6 | Horowitz nodded as he followed Hendrix out of the cabin , carrying the case he 'd picked up from the Frankfurt villa in one hand , his executive case in the other . |
| 7 | Donna sat in the sitting-room , glancing endlessly at the sheets of paper they 'd picked up from the bank that day and also at the notes Ward had left . |
| 8 | Suddenly there was a flash of lightning and a roll of thunder and the heavens burst sending us scuttling into the woods for shelter , but it was n't long before the rain got through and drenched us with miniature Niagaras that came cascading down from the broad leaves . |
| 9 | A group of shaven-headed yobbos , with tattooed cheeks and nationalistic leanings , observed this from the upper deck and came swarming down from the bus . |
| 10 | They reckon there was a load of fallen branches lying under the air shaft before we pushed the guy down it ; according to the young cop who first went down it looked like he 'd crawled out from the middle of the pile . |
| 11 | Well , your mother came rushing in from the car with a rare display of energy and snatched it from the fellow 's hands . |
| 12 | As they staggered out of their tepees and another faultless day came smooching in from the Pacific , they would sniff the honeyed air and ask one another what they 'd got up to the previous night . |
| 13 | The sound of singing came drifting up from the quays below . |
| 14 | Connon 's voice came drifting in from the hall . |
| 15 | They bartered their grain for the salt he 'd brought back from the border , where he traded with Tibetans who 'd scraped it from the arid salt-lakes and carried it south on yaks across the windswept dust-blown plateau lands . |
| 16 | I 'd walked up from the village under a brilliantly starry sky , breathing cold shafts of early-morning air , thinking of murder . |
| 17 | Mrs Joyce , the cook , came panting up from the kitchen with the two maid-servants behind her , her hands and wrists covered in flour , while Uncle Walter and his sister peeped wide-eyed from behind the curtains . |
| 18 | Some of the children came running over from the village . |
| 19 | He came running in from the dispensary , pulling up his trousers , still held up by his MCC tie , the end of his stethoscope bouncing off his fat tummy . |
| 20 | As the 22 men in the three boats had just taken their respective stations , a young girl came running down from the village to the shore in breathless haste . |
| 21 | He came running back from the grave the day we reached here , saying someone had been tampering , and we could scarcely believe it . |
| 22 | Er , no , no , we were , I mean last night we 'd gone up from the week before on a rave , we 'd had about si ninety in , and last night we had about two hundred and fifty . |
| 23 | Gently they lifted the bedraggled form as Bert came lumbering down from the 3 and 4 landing , with Gilbert Forbes behind him , and behind him the trembling form of Jessie , wringing her hands . |
| 24 | Besides these photographs were Pedro 's polo helmet , which now had a map of the Malvinas stamped on the front ( which Angel always wore in matches ) , and a jar of earth he 'd dug up from the Islands on the day he 'd been sent home as a prisoner of war . |
| 25 | The organ could not approach this strangled cry that came welling up from the bowels , from the primitive consciousness of life , of pain , of joy ; the long , tortured note that slowly unwound your intestines to be twanged by the electric guitarist . |
| 26 | The heavy sound of the door-knocker came beating up from the bottom of the house . |
| 27 | When results began to come in from the field researchers , Highlander served as the collection , organisation and computation centre , and held workshops to allow participants to draw some very marked comparisons and contrasts from the raw data . |
| 28 | Alerted by a grapevine of unparalleled efficiency to the presence of honkies with money , hitherto undiscovered talents began swarming in from the ghettos and down from the hills , bearing tape-recordings , even guitars , for impromptu auditions . |
| 29 | Red flares began coming up from the airfield , but the first bombers were committed : they had nowhere to go but down . |
| 30 | This Vitamin A derivative had for years been prescribed to acne sufferers , but it was not until the mid-Eighties that reports began to filter through from the States about its miraculous ability to smooth out wrinkles caused by exposure to the sun — a process known as photo-ageing . |