Example sentences of "[verb] from the town " in BNC.
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| 1 | They both were astonished that so far no indication of trouble had come from the town common ; but reckoned that it would not be long now before it did , for a few escapers from the castle had been glimpsed running in that direction . |
| 2 | Only a murmur rose from the town below me . |
| 3 | Guisborough councillor Barbara Murrant , elected last May , has resigned from the town council . |
| 4 | A UN spokesman returning from the town of Zepa , which was reached on Sunday , said bodies he saw were all women and children , not soldiers . |
| 5 | And of course I loved the town and although the station was about a mile from the town centre , people used to come from the town centre in their cars , they had lunch at our place er er at Cambridge , you see , and there , there were two waiters and one , one of them took part-time cellar work , you see , and er , they were two brothers and er their name 's |
| 6 | But he was stable enough to be transferred from the town 's general hospital to the specialist Walton centre for neurology and neurosurgery in Liverpool , where he remains on a ventilator . |
| 7 | The villages were separated from the town by farmers ' fields . |
| 8 | That summer the Allies announced that the families who had helped prisoners-of-war would be remunerated for the board and lodging they had given : a form could be collected from the town hall . |
| 9 | Ehm er chair er Sheila from Harlow secretary of the film society which has operated here since the playhouse opened moved from the town hall er we do get people past the door we have been doing in years erm and I personally I 'm also here as an individual I 've been an arts lover for forty five years of my life in Harlow . |
| 10 | But yes , erm it , it 's partly sediment brought down from inland , it 's also the fact that you have offshore of Rye the area of Winchelsea Beach and so-called Rye Harbour which is somewhat detached from the town of Rye , and there 's been an enormous accumulation of shingle there , so that the Castle , which was built in , that 's Camber Castle which was built in the reign of Henry the Eighth , since that time the shoreline at Winchelsea Beach , as a result of the accumulation of shingle , has moved in excess of one point five kilometres seaward of that point , and so obviously erm Rye is now much further inland than it was at that time . |
| 11 | Although many of the better-paid staff , especially those with engineering expertise , were brought in from all over the country , much of the local labour came from the town of Bridgwater , ten miles away by road . |
| 12 | Carrie said , ‘ Nick and I used to walk from the town along the side of the railway . |
| 13 | I made it from old aluminium tent-poles , some of which I had found in the attic a long time previously and some I had got from the town dump . |
| 14 | The last we hear from Roslavl' on taxes is in May , when fifty-eight of the seventy-eight soldiers requested from the town garrison were sent out to collect the potato tax in kind . |
| 15 | The troops quickly established their dominance over the Croatian special police , who withdrew from the town on March 3 , leaving the Serbian authorities of the " Autonomous Region " in control . |
| 16 | Suddenly , at about 3 o'clock , a pall of thick black smoke could be seen rising from the town and shortly afterwards came flames and then loud crackling was heard . |
| 17 | Official sources claimed that John Garang , the commander of the " Torit faction " of the Sudanese People 's Liberation Army ( SPLA ) , and other leaders had escaped from the town and set up headquarters in Kajokaji , in the border region . |
| 18 | Half an hour after the intruders had gone , a horde of volunteers arrived — since ‘ the Forty-five ’ Scotland had had no militia — and a cannon , dragged from the town on to the Point of St Mary 's Isle , fiercely engaged a supposed ship which turned out to be a rock . |
| 19 | ALTON is fast becoming a hive of musical activity and Overspill are the latest band to emerge from the town . |
| 20 | The papal army was beaten , and the Pope extracted from the town of Civitate , from which he had witnessed the battle . |
| 21 | More than two thirds of the troops at have withdrawn from the town leaving around seventy soldiers there . |
| 22 | They know , too , all the secret places of the bank : the nest of sandbags built during the War for the Home Guard ; the ruins of Marsh Edge Farm that lies in an angle of the tip hidden from the town ; the steps , cut in the slag-face , that lead down to the Ironworks Pier from which they can watch the boats . |
| 23 | No fewer than three railway stations offer a fast service to Paris ; and at night it takes only twenty minutes to drive from the town 's centre to the Etoile . |
| 24 | She was busy stuffing our cupboards , the fridge and the freezer with the food and supplies she had brought from the town . |
| 25 | Its unifying feature has been the consistency of the form of statutory town planning derived from the Town and Country Planning Act 1947 and its successors , primarily the Acts of 1968 and 1971 . |
| 26 | He could be gone from the town . ’ |
| 27 | The present powers of local authorities in respect of town planning derive from the Town and Country Planning Act 1968 and the equivalent Scottish Act of 1969 . |
| 28 | He was roughly handled by the mob and forcibly removed from the town . |
| 29 | Hypermarkets have a large catchment area ( ie customers may come from the town itself , and neighbouring towns and villages over quite a wide region ) . |
| 30 | The main road north , Dere Street , must have described a dog-leg through the site , entering from the known site of the bridge over the Tyne to the south and emerging from the town on a more easterly line on its northward approach to the Portgate . |