Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when the messenger had made his reverence and limped out from the presence , Henry turned his head a little , and looked at his closest confidants , but obliquely , out of the corner of a sunken eye , and dismissed them , too . |
| 2 | It was definitely time to say farewell and stepping down from the canal at that point I found myself on the very street of my son 's house . |
| 3 | They raise them to shoulder level , and back off from the small crowd . |
| 4 | Marie pushed back her coffee and got up from the table . |
| 5 | He looked at me for a moment then sighed and got up from the chair . |
| 6 | She finished her drink and got up from the table . |
| 7 | He shook his head and got up from the table , taking his plate to the sink to rinse it . |
| 8 | The unusual size was chosen to give more space to the visuals and to stand out from the standard A4 size so common in offices . |
| 9 | He rubbed his eyes and peered down from the top bunk . |
| 10 | He pressed , just hard enough , and drew back from the falling man . |
| 11 | Billy Graham like all such evangelists called for people from the congregation to make an immediate decision and to come out from the crowd ; and Ramsey wrote that the call for an immediate decision had danger because the mind could be stifled in the process and this could bring a later revenge in scepticism and indifference . |
| 12 | You 're a fool as well as surly , ’ said the boy , and stuck his neat , short nose in the air and bounced up from the table in dudgeon , but Harry caught him by the sleeve . |
| 13 | She had drifted unhappily around the estate , dragging her feet and shrinking back from the noisy pack of children which romped around the gardens . |
| 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 | Her mother of course was aware that fifteen does not relish the solitude that fifty does , and came back from the village one day when Peony had been particularly silent and lumpish , with the news that Mrs Price who kept an antique shop had her grandchildren staying with her , and she was invited to go round and play tennis with them and have tea . |
| 19 | Goshawk Squadron flew all that day , and came back from the patrols badly mauled . |
| 20 | Erm , I have I think cousin , erm , who was in the Air Force during the war , and came back from the Air Force with a child . |
| 21 | He smiled and came in from the terrace . |
| 22 | The carriageway was empty and sealed off from the world by chipped grey railings down the centre and either side . |
| 23 | To confirm this we have to pause and look back from the road to Aubeterre as it climbs the eastern slope of the valley of the Tude , just as Pound must have paused in 1911 ; and then we see that , whereas the modern town of Chalais is in the river bottom , old Chalais , a manorial village grouped round the gate of the château , does indeed stand on the ridge behind , so that the tops of the tallest poplars by the river wave just below the walls of the château . |
| 24 | Turn the lights out and stand back from the door ! ’ said the bearded man . |
| 25 | The skin was healthily tanned and the hair thin but not receding , and slicked back from the front . |
| 26 | The political aims of the centre are not written on tablets of stone and handed down from the Mount . |
| 27 | Boz left the stable without another word as Seb flung aside his pitchfork and climbed down from the loft to hurry to the farmhouse . |
| 28 | For he just pushed his plate aside , wiped his mouth on the back of his hand , and getting up from the table once again went out of the house without saying a word . |
| 29 | She did not beg her , as Cati did — Rosa had heard her — to help her be good , help her to be pure , and never have dirty thoughts or put her fingers in dirty places ; instead she fixed on the amber doe 's eyes that had gushed , above the hilt of a sword , which was studded with bright glass stones and stuck out from the statue 's brocade costume . |
| 30 | But Nicola 's husband recovered himself and padded over from the settee to switch off the television . |