Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] from [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although we were officially the London helpline , we got calls from all over Britain and from all over the world . |
| 2 | Janos Kadar , who led Hungary from then till 1988 , offered some cultural and economic freedom in return for obedience to Moscow . |
| 3 | She phoned Pascoe from there . |
| 4 | They were a tough crowd who drew fighters from quite far afield . |
| 5 | Under new disputes procedures , ( i ) competition cases would be handled by the EC Commission and the ECJ if they involved companies from both the EC and EFTA ( and by EFTA only if they concerned only EFTA companies ) ; ( ii ) disagreements over the operation of the EEA would go to a joint EEA political committee , with either party having the right to seek binding arbitration if the issue were unresolved ; and ( iii ) the ECJ would have sole powers to rule on the interpretation of EEA laws , while EFTA courts would give their " best endeavours " to comply with such rulings . |
| 6 | But she loved him enough to understand his silence and found courage from somewhere for both of them . |
| 7 | The big horses shouldered passers-by aside , for which Murtach courteously apologised , and the wounded ‘ Wares , bloodstained and tired , drew stares from everywhere . |
| 8 | The phenomenon drew comment from nearly all the booksellers taking part in the survey , looming larger in most booksellers ' experience than the formerly familiar threat of expansion by the chains ( although the latter phenomenon has obviously not disappeared , with Jarrolds , in particular , awaiting the arrival of a 10,000 sq ft Dillons store in Norwich with a certain apprehension ) . |
| 9 | The school , for disturbed children , drew pupils from all over the country , at fees of forty thousand pounds a year each . |
| 10 | One of the most reputed single-site vineyards of this area is ‘ Le Leon ’ , named after Pope Leo the Magnificent , who drew supplies from here in the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 11 | ‘ Cardiff ! ’ shouted Jimmy from somewhere behind him . |
| 12 | The element of continuity with previous Unity campaigns was thus preserved and the Cripps Memorandum received support from basically the same groups and individuals who had supported him on previous occasions . |
| 13 | The European Commission yesterday duly called for total deregulation of telephone service in the European Community by 1998 and asked telecommunications ministers to endorse that goal at their Council of Ministers on May 10 : the UK is the only European Community country where the body responsible for installing phones and running the service has been forced to make room for a competitor , but national territorial monopolies were not suited to the needs of a single Community market and technological advances meant they were no longer justified in any case , the Commission said ; Industry Commissioner Martin Bangemann said the Commission would soon produce another paper on whether development of telephone networks should also be dealt with under a free market system , adding that the Commission believed companies from outside the Community should be free to reap the benefits of deregulation as long as EC firms were able to do likewise on those firms ' home territory ; but the Commission pulled back from recommending that large companies be free to lease spare capacity on the networks of utilities such as gas from the start of next year . |
| 14 | The Great Exhibition lasted from May until October and attracted visitors from all over the world to see the various items of produce exhibited , and a Mr. Thomas Cook enlarged his business by arranging trips to that Exhibition from a great many places . |
| 15 | ‘ Moreover the non-production prevented AMD from fairly presenting its defence . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Moreover the non-production prevented AMD from fairly presenting its defence . ’ |
| 17 | It 's been a good year for holly berries , and the crop on sale today attracted buyers from all over Britain . |
| 18 | American Secretary of State Warren Christopher told delegates from more than 100 countries the largest human rights gathering for 25 years that the US rejected calls from some Asian and Middle East states for feebler standards . |
| 19 | In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the fair — for cattle , sheep and hardware as well as horses — attracted people from all over the country . |
| 20 | The event attracted people from all over the UK . |
| 21 | Will my hon. Friend confirm that he received representations from both the British Tourist Authority and the English tourist board about the damage that would be done to the industry by the restrictions on part-time working and on working hours which are so beloved of Labour ? |
| 22 | After news of the drawing was reported recently in the Italian press he received tips from all over Europe about other missing Leonardos . |
| 23 | Founded in the thirteenth century , Salamanca was the equal of Paris , Bologna and Oxford , became internationally famous and attracted students from all over the world . |
| 24 | With their extensive libraries , Irish monasteries attracted students from all over the world . |
| 25 | It was her canonisation that brought the town to prominence and attracted pilgrims from all over Europe to her shrine . |
| 26 | It was the steady reliability , the unfailing support , which I knew I could count on , which distinguished Eliot from so many others . |
| 27 | The treasures of a man who spent his life helping other people discover valuables in their own attics attracted interest from all over the world . |
| 28 | It attracted followers from all over the world . |
| 29 | The kings of the Mercians until at least the time of Ceolwulf ( 821–3 ) claimed descent from either Penda or one of his brothers ( see Appendix , Fig. 8 ) . |
| 30 | ONCE , when Japan faced pressure from abroad , it would either give in reluctantly or keep quiet and hope that the fuss would die down . |