6.79 'from' before prepositions and adverbs

'From' can also be used before another preposition or before some adverbs to indicate the starting-point of a movement.

• I had taken his drinking bowl from beneath the kitchen table.
• ...goods imported from abroad.
• Thomas had stopped bringing his lunch from home.

'From' can be used before the following adverbs:

above, abroad, anywhere, behind, below, beneath, downstairs, elsewhere, everywhere, here, home, inside, next door, nowhere, outside, overseas, somewhere, there, underneath, upstairs