Example sentences of "from [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I get it from down at the hardware shop .
2 from down by the Nag 's Head , who 'd been bombed out .
3 He was screaming at her from down in the channel .
4 From down in the corrie , the first view appears of the Ben 's mighty cliffs and the spectacular Carn Mor Dearg Arête , which must be crossed to link the two peaks .
5 Winter sweet , viburnum , and witch hazel were all in flower ; the air was so still that they could hear the distant gurgle of the river from down in the valley .
6 And erm the keeper , had from up towards the mountain do you see .
7 Ben Alder has always seemed as impenetrable to me as a hi-fi magazine , but from up on the ridge it gives away its secrets and reveals a relatively simple ascent from the west up a long , inclining slope .
8 Even the sea was scarcely visible from up on the bridge deck .
9 From up on the superstructure of STROMNESS he saw all the men on ANTELOPE being mustered on the flight deck and being taken off .
10 Some angles are quite bizarre , from up on the ceiling , down on the floor , in the corner of a room , or looking in from a window .
11 The sounds were muffled from up on the roof but they still bugged me so I went indoors .
12 ‘ Brodetto ’ is a traditional fish soup concocted from up to a dozen different kinds of fish with their flavours enriched with generous use of olive oil , onion , herbs and garlic .
13 All the different schools had er cos then we had , used to compete against er all sports and we used to get an afternoon football we used to march from up to the and erm play football but we did n't go up there until at half-time at erm play-time so they went to school at two o'clock and at half past three then that 'd be our break , then we 'd go up to erm football till five o'clock .
14 I intended to pick up my car and come over to see you as soon as I 'd talked to Bertelli , but when I got back here Lorenzini had this message from up near the fort .
15 I hope that , from up in the Gallery , farmers will notice how little the Government care .
16 He dined discriminatingly from out of a stasis-box on spiced foetal lambkin stuffed with truffles ; and he sipped gloryberry juice .
17 He was convinced from the beginning that Ken was perfect for the role of the slightly dotty but romantic detective in the white raincoat , a man who existed on a diet of macaroons he produced from out of a black Gladstone bag .
18 Now leaning forward from out of the flowery deckchair : ‘ You know he died in debt .
19 Soon from out of the Southward seemed nearing
20 From out of the trees on the cliff side appeared a big black dog .
21 From out of the hide trailed the pink blanket .
22 He could not bring back any coherent dream from out of the hours which followed .
23 He saw inside himself a yellow-hammer flying in a startled flutter from out of the spikes and small blooms of a gorse-bush .
24 From out of the water rose a ferocious piece of metal covered in seaweed , barnacles and winkles .
25 But whether you are here for the first or merely the latest time , as you enter the square — better still , as you emerge into it , blinking away the bright Milanese light as you climb up out of the Metro — there can be no doubting its magical ability to conjure a timeless moment of calm from out of the bustle .
26 The organized youth movement can easily be identified as emerging from out of the economic and social crises commonly associated with the late Victorian period .
27 Another said that Russell had pulled a brick from out of the passage wall and hit him with it .
28 They dived down from out of the sun to the south and in view of the short space of time that had elapsed since the aircraft had landed it is almost certain that the enemy aircraft must have seen the Sunderland in the air .
29 Also he invented obscure postcards , which he sent to people chosen at random from out of the telephone directory in a deliberate act to question the postmanship that his dada had done …
30 Also in that year he formed the Stamford Brazenose Society and at their first meeting they discussed astronomy and the latitude of Stamford , lunar maps , a remarkable wasps ' nest and a ‘ stone as big as a walnut , taken from out of the bladder of a little Dutch dog ’ .
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