Example sentences of "[vb pp] down from [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not just Giles 's spite-filled revenge , but the expression in Nathan Bryce 's eyes as he had gazed down from the dais . |
| 2 | Fearfully , Seb drew closer and could see her dress had been ripped down from the neck to waist . |
| 3 | In this damp clay I had left footprints , and over these footprints I now found the splayed-out pug marks of the tigress where she had jumped down from the rocks and followed me , until the kakar had seen her and given its alarm-call , whereon the tigress had left the track and entered the bushes where I had seen the movement . |
| 4 | Her family have travelled down from the city to the Devon hospital where the attack happened . |
| 5 | One of her few friends in the movement , whom she used to meet at Lockharts in the Strand for a poached egg once a week , had come down from a mill town in Lancashire in 1916 with nothing but two brown paper parcels . |
| 6 | Bernard Mullan , one of the Fascists who had come down from the Chelsea headquarters , was under arrest . |
| 7 | The moon , I thought briefly , had come down from the sky and was dancing about in the wood not far ahead . |
| 8 | Eye-witness Maureen Darwin , who was waiting to board one of the US-bound jumbos , said : ‘ It was as if a giant unseen hand had come down from the heavens and just lifted the planes up and across the tarmac . |
| 9 | Apart from her father and her brother Niall who had come down from the watchtower , she was the tallest person present , and her fine clothes lent her a new self-confidence . |
| 10 | Because then Jesus said to him , who was he talking to , let's , let's start off on the verse one after er after he had come down from the mountains , great crowds followed him that 's Jesus is n't it ? |
| 11 | For Philip said that board , thick papers , " something , should be put under the tank to raise it , because of some tricky protruding pipes , and Jasper , seeing the stacks of newspaper that had come down from the attic , swiftly gathered them up and built them , while he knelt there beside it , into an eighteen-inch-high platform . |
| 12 | Than the shops gave place to boarding houses and the hill began ; it was a twin of the one he had come down from the car park . |
| 13 | It is perfectly clear that long before the procession came into sight , long before the procession had formed , these people in the Markets in their desire to be offended had come down from the side streets and had taken great trouble to he offended , and not only were prepared to be offended but were prepared to throw missiles , stones and other weapons … |
| 14 | The volatility of the Cusqueños coupled with the increasing pressure among them of poor campesinos who had come down from the Andes to seek a better life stood in ironic contrast to the rigid panoply of the state ; a situation brought home to me on Easter Sunday . |
| 15 | Meantime , back at the Bourne , the crowd were treated to a display of power tennis from Duncan Knight who had come down from the David Lloyd Centre with Onny Parun . |
| 16 | Her spirits had come down from the heights to the abyss . |
| 17 | At last , with Greg 's help , they managed to get him on to a stretcher to which he was firmly secured with nylon strapping so that it was virtually impossible for him to move , then the stretcher was carefully lifted down from the jig and into the waiting ambulance . |
| 18 | He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act . |
| 19 | Past Gèdre , the landscape reverts again to its harsher , more primeval mode , as you drive through what is known as the Chaos de Coumély , a wilderness of massive boulders that have rolled down from the mountain on the left . |
| 20 | In any other season you could have looked down from a ridge just below the pastures where the sheep were grazing and seen the village in miniature , a doll 's farm set in a patchwork of agricultural land that spread across the valley floor . |
| 21 | The derelict gardens were rescued by Davyd , who had moved down from the mountains of Wales to the plains of East Anglia , but remained very Welsh , his accent giving authority to everything he said . |
| 22 | Stories simply handed down by word of mouth over that length of time are likely to be less accurate than those written down from the beginning . |
| 23 | She held up the notes she had copied down from the drums in the German docks . |
| 24 | If , when the list of members is handed down from the St Andrew 's House — Scotland 's Whitehall — it contains a majority of business people , it will be a message from the government that Scotland is not ready for consensus . |
| 25 | Only now , in my old age , I wish I had got down from the table and put my arms round his neck and kissed him . |
| 26 | He had got down from the table half-way through tea and was sitting on a chair in the doorway , looking droopy and listless . |
| 27 | Some of the dogs , too , had slithered down from the bank and were swimming out towards the boar . |
| 28 | After a few hours ' driving , we stop by a small lake brimming with clear water which has tumbled down from the escarpment through dense forest . |
| 29 | ‘ Thank you , ’ he answered , bewildered , and was even more surprised when Therese called down from the stage , ‘ Coming for coffee , Madge ? |
| 30 | Hosanna padded down from the steps that led up to the patio door and sat beside her , lifting his right paw and placing it on her thigh . |