Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [prep] [noun] from [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Ruth careered her hands down his back and pressed her wild body urgently against him till she roused moans of pleasure from deep inside him .
2 The ANC at that time had very close links to the African Mine Workers ' Union , the largest group of whose members were Bemba , but which included members of tribes from all over Zambia , as well as from Tanganyika and Nyasaland .
3 Said Sheher , the man who organised the competition which brought contestants to Whitby from all over the United Kingdom as well as Belgium and Germany , said : ‘ Karate is a rough sport . ’
4 That inflation enabled students with money from abroad ( English pounds in his own case , he says ) to rush from one currency dealer to another , taking advantage of different rates to make a profit .
5 Boys and old men drove donkeys , which carried baskets of sand from where it had blown into the town at one end , to be taken off by the wind at the other .
6 In the heyday of Napoleon 's conquests he had access to fossils from all over Europe and was thus in a position to make the first comprehensive study .
7 In Ireland , as in the Middle East , learning and scholarship were an integral component of the monastic system , and Irish libraries became depositories for material from all over the world .
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