Example sentences of "from [noun prp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andy Warhol 's silkscreen canvas ‘ 210 Coca-Cola bottles ’ ( Christie 's lot 46 , est. $2.2–2.8 million ) was the most expensive lot of the week when it was sold for $1.9 million ( £1.05 million ) to Zurich dealer , Thomas Ammann , against stiff competition from Helge Achenbach , the dealer from Düsseldorf who advises Deutsche Bank and the Flick family . |
| 2 | We spent a pleasant evening with Bob at the Springfield Hotel , the most northerly pub , in the British Isles where , amongst other anecdotes , we were told about the customs officer from Lerwick who was staying on Unst one very wet and stormy night , and awoke to find the roof of his bedroom had blown off . |
| 3 | From Thaxted we went to a lovely old thatched pub called the Ashtree at Burton End . |
| 4 | He was , we were told , a butcher from Thaxted who joined a gang of baddies and eventually landed up in York jail , where he was hanged for horse stealing . |
| 5 | After two days out from Newfoundland she had had to alter course for southern Greenland and the Arctic circle , the U-boat menace was so bad . |
| 6 | Supervising the diggers was a large man he recognised as the Irish-Scandinavian bishop from Saxony whose name be believed to be Hrolf . |
| 7 | The Madame lived to the age of 90. when she died , some time in the 1970s , the hotel was left to Abdulrahim , a Nubian from Aswan who had come to work for the Madame as a young boy before the Second World War . |
| 8 | And er when I first came to the shop , the mo m A lot of them used to come by train and you know taxis or meeting and at the station and and away from Holyhead they used to stop by the shop for fruit . |
| 9 | Me dad came to live er me dad from Norfolk he came in shepherd boy |
| 10 | That 's the question , from Hull we 've got Carolyn Holden , Carolyn ? |
| 11 | In organising from Hull he had the advantage that his members were short voyage men , mostly employed on weekly boats . |
| 12 | John Jarvis went on : ‘ Among those registered under the EAP are a family of four from Winsford who , if they proceed , will be purchasing their third Redrow home . |
| 13 | Geoff Meade tells the story of the woman from Chinnor in Oxfordshire who made a coat from her dog 's hair , the woman from Swindon who moved house several times because her cat was homesick , the dog from Aylesbury with an aversion to music . |
| 14 | The couple from Swindon who invited 50 strangers to their wedding . |
| 15 | Goal of the week comes from Swindon who 've got tomorrow off . |
| 16 | From Ritjemjokk our maps and information showed ferry routes along Sitasjaure to the Norwegian border . |
| 17 | No doubt he exaggerated ( such was his wont where his conscience was concerned ) ; yet the only news she had received from Em herself had not been happy ; and now — to learn that she had suffered a miscarriage in that desert place at such a time of year , and that she had not felt able to share the grief of it with her own affectionate sister … |
| 18 | The durable li'l lady from Nashville who began her recording career when she was just 11 years old proved age had not mellowed her as she belted out the songs of the Fifties and Sixties which made her one of the best selling female vocalists of all time . |
| 19 | I actually come from the Dales from Middleham which is near Leyburn which is near Catterick |
| 20 | However , TER includes not merely more music from Kismet itself , but additional tracks from the film version and the 1978 African version , Timbuktu . |
| 21 | When I took it over from Matt I realised that a wilderness was something different from the average person 's orderly life . |
| 22 | Tessa , the 36-year-old from Wolverhampton who struck gold in 1984 at Los Angeles , found her fifth Games no fun at all . |
| 23 | Oh yes and er the I pass all the correspondence I have to the County Planning Officer who deals with it with the most enormous efficiency and I hope that he is maintaining liaison with what I call the Rucatse Group which consists of , Neil and Tony and somebody from Crawley who is I think it 's |
| 24 | From Antwerp she had gone to Santander , where she had been due to return to London , but had been diverted to Bilbao instead . |
| 25 | From Hayek we see stated in forthright fashion the importance in normativist thought of the dignity of the individual and the primacy of individual freedom . |
| 26 | Bob Sillitoe says that since he came back from Kilimanjaro he 's been looking for something else … another challenge … the climbing has given his son a great sense of confidence |
| 27 | British Rail 's choice of King 's Cross as the second London terminal in addition to Waterloo has raised a storm of protest not only from Camden Council but also from Newham which has emerged as a kind of British Amiens in its campaign to site the terminal at Stratford . |
| 28 | From Santiago we flew for an hour to Vigo , which has a smaller airport but is a much larger town and is in fact Spain 's largest port . |
| 29 | From Lugano it was fine because the winter is always six months and everything is closed in any case , but here the galleries are open the whole year and the museum is easier to get to . |
| 30 | She pulled away from Will who 'd slipped an arm round her waist . |