Example sentences of "[noun] from [noun] [vb past] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stood against the wall as sixteen pairs of eyes from faces pressed up against the office windows scrutinised him and saw , he knew only too well , a small , scrawny creature with spots breaking out over his face . |
| 2 | The two men with whom he had shared the compartment from Moscow stood away from him , as if by choice . |
| 3 | A telegram from Stanislaus arrived shortly before curtain up ; Babs was over the moon . |
| 4 | Whether they had been worked at some preceding date is a matter of no little conjecture but is unlikely and it seems that the miners from Keswick started there in 1599 . |
| 5 | After a week 's crash course in teaching English to foreign students , she and a girl from Lincoln went out to Cracow , Poland 's second largest city , to work in a school for the blind and partially sighted . |
| 6 | Huguenot refugees from France settled here in what became one of London 's ghettoes in the eighteenth century , and brought their weaving skills with them . |
| 7 | If the mid-year inflation figures are used , then incomes from farming went up by about 16pc . |
| 8 | This week Kevin Morris from Cheltenham set off to be the 424th and the very first to do it backstroke . |
| 9 | A report by a Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food provided the first official acknowledgment that lead fall-out from cars contributed significantly to the lead content of food . |
| 10 | A group from Switzerland turned up on the doorstep of Low Birk Hatt on her birthday ( they knew — they had gifts ) , a whole cheese arrived overland from New Zealand , and the rooms at the farm began to fill up . |
| 11 | On 9–10 December Commonwealth delegates from Chicago moved on to Montreal , where they announced the formation of the Commonwealth Air Transport Council , a forum for the exchange of views and co-ordination of air operations . |
| 12 | Emily Bond a new name from Gloucestershire did best of all … she beat Heidi Hogh 6-1 6-0 but just failed to make the quarter finals … |
| 13 | Buy-outs from receivership featured strongly during the year , while buy-ins from receivership fell . |
| 14 | But the crossing from Newcastle turned out to be a mini holiday in itself and very soon we were nosing our way through the islands and reefs which guard the entrance to Bergen 's Hanseatic harbour . |
| 15 | The systematic publication of coins from excavations began only in the twentieth century , and one of the most substantial early publications was of the coins recovered during the American excavations at Sardis in Asia Minor . |
| 16 | it was held on appeal that income from assets tied up in the deceased 's farm could not be deducted from the dependency claim by virtue of s.4 of the f.a.a as amended by the administration of justice act 1982. in this case the widow of a farmer inherited a share of a farm jointly owned by her husband and his brother . |
| 17 | The arguments from justice joined easily with the Dewey-based principles discussed above . |
| 18 | OOam on a crisp Spring morning , 2O staff from Wallington set off on a 46 mile sponsored bike ride from Wallington to Brighton . |
| 19 | She was crossing the foyer intending to return to her room to collect her thoughts , however , when the attentive man from Reception came away from his desk and stopped in front of her . |
| 20 | But the wee winger from Fife bounced back in a way that says much for the survivalist instincts in the human spirit . |
| 21 | Annabel 's call from Scott came through to Saracen just as dinner was announced . |
| 22 | Ships from Alexandria sailed daily for the Atlantic coast of Europe . |
| 23 | ‘ The twenty-five ships from Denmark got up to the Orkney ships , ’ the signalman said , ‘ and surrounded them . |
| 24 | ‘ Then the twenty-five ships from Denmark sailed over to Siward 's ships and took aboard the men from the wrecked ships , and greeted the ones on the three ships that were not damaged , and , led by the three ships , set sail across the mouth of the estuary . |
| 25 | Nor surprisingly the popular pro from Sheffield turned out to be a natural in his latest role as a BBC roving reporter , but any thoughts he might have had about changing career were dispelled when , seven days later , he climbed onto the winner 's rostrum at the Lancome after a closing round of 65 . |
| 26 | ‘ Then one evening this down-to-earth painter from Harrow got down from his ladder to talk to someone at the end of the passage . |
| 27 | Erm , it was called the Marseillaise , erm , because the volunteers from Marseilles came up from the south , and entered Paris and they were singing , erm , this one . |
| 28 | The 22-year-old from Sheffield signed up as the sport 's first big-money professional with a one-year contract worth £8,300 a month from the newly-launched Professional Pool Federation . |
| 29 | The method produces salt crystals from brine pumped up from the salt beds by a steam engine . |
| 30 | The aim of the new centre , Arena Arctica , is to collect and process date from space brought down with balloons or specially equipped aircraft from altitudes of 35 kilometres . |