Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun] from [noun prp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are Chinese Muslims whose ancestors came to China from Arabia as long ago as 651 and who still live scattered throughout the People 's Republic , preserving a way of life , a language and a religion that has more in common with Mecca than with the Orient . |
| 2 | Far greater than any of these , second only to Palestrina himself , was Tomas Luis de Victoria ( c. 1548–1611 ) , who in 1565 came to Rome from Spain where Morales ( see p. 236 ) and his pupil Francisco Guerrero ( c. 1527–1599 ) had already arrived at a perfection of the Netherland style hardly distinguishable from the Roman . |
| 3 | He came to Teesside from Newcastle where he ran a fine art print workshop . |
| 4 | Reporters said Mr Arafat , who arrived in Cairo from Syria yesterday , was accompanied by the PLO 's foreign affairs spokesman Farouk Kaddoumi and information chief Yasser Abed-Rabbo . |
| 5 | Field , who has doctorate in micropalaeontology , arrived in Angola from Milan where he was manager for BP Italy . |
| 6 | In 1750 the town sought to have a linen market set up but met with opposition from Richhill where a linen market had been flourishing . |
| 7 | JOAN Collins , recently named one of the top 10 sexiest women of all time , flew into London from Argentina yesterday with just one thing on her mind — bed . |
| 8 | ‘ I feel the efforts of the US embassy have been very inadequate , ’ his daughter Caroline said by telephone from Panama yesterday . |