Example sentences of "from [noun prp] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he did like the young woman , a hoyden from Somerville who gambled on the horses and was always broke . |
| 2 | It 's the work of Geoff Oakes , a quietly-spoken young man from Stoke who went to the Haçienda one night in 1988 and got bitten bad . |
| 3 | Just 1,500km ( 932 miles ) from Moscow we passed over the Ural mountains which divide Europe from Asia . |
| 4 | While he was there , he got an invitation from Archbishop Hugh to go to Lyons , and from Lyons he wrote to the pope explaining his reasons for leaving England . |
| 5 | Nor are there many documentary examples : the words do lego darique volo are found in an inscription from Spain which dates from the end of the second century . |
| 6 | From Trondheim we went over the mountain ridge and the border into Sweden . |
| 7 | There are two buses a day from Whaddon which leave outside the nuclear shelter at 6.15 a.m. or 7.34 p.m . |
| 8 | Many from Transylvania who fought for the downfall of Ceaucescu are persecuted , whilst his defenders are treated as heroes . |
| 9 | Yeah every time I get me take-away curry from Ripon I park outside the house that 's somebody comes and he says you ca n't park there . |
| 10 | To our church came such spiritual giants as Rev Reginald Barlett of Samoa , and the South Seas , Miss Mabel Shaw of Mbershi , whose adopted daughter is helping with modern Zambia , a housewoman from Dr Ida Scudder 's hospital at Velore , central India and a missionary from China who knew about the conditions there and in Hong Kong , and who had also met Toyohiko Kagawa of Japan and knew that , in very truth , this son of a Geisha and who knows who , was a world figure , now pleading at the League of Nations for more attention to World Health than to armaments . |
| 11 | From France he went to the Alps and Italy , and in 1870–1 he made his first visit to America , where he may have encountered his father , as well as many unfamiliar trees and shrubs . |
| 12 | None of them do , there 's no space for it , but there were twelve other people who died at that same time at Dornhausen , and four more from Dornhausen who died in the Karls Hospital at Bad Schwarzendorn at times later in the day . ’ |
| 13 | Long jumper Yinka Idowu from Carterton who competes for the Oxford City club won her place in the team a couple of weeks ago when she won the British title at Sheffield … she only finished third in trials at the weekend but is still regarded as one of our best young athletes … |
| 14 | Long jumper Yinka Idowu from Carterton who competes for the Oxford City club won her place in the team a couple of weeks ago when she won the British title at Sheffield … she only finished third in trials at the weekend but is still regarded as one of our best young athletes … |
| 15 | Yes , they 've got a week or two to get it together and send it in , but we know from what people have pledged that that 's what we can expect at least , and that 's from over a thousand cyclists ranging from , I saw one child in a seat behind their parents on a bike , up to an eighty nine year old lady from Brill who cycled for the first time in years and really enjoyed it . |
| 16 | The first acquisitions of booty from Greece itself came from the campaigns of Lucius Quinctius Flamininus against Philip V of Macedon in 198–197 BC . |
| 17 | I wonder if the friendly gent from Gloucester I met on the bank at Bo'ness some days back has noted that steam is heading his way on Saturday ? |