Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun prp] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They eventually approached Berwick from the north-west , rounding the skirts of Halidon Hill , and from there able to look down on the grey town at the wide mouth of Tweed , two miles off . |
| 2 | Relations with Brian Clough hit rock bottom , you might remember , when the manager called the police in to escort Fashanu from the club 's training ground . |
| 3 | Police had to be brought in to protect Laing from the outraged violence of some of his hearers . |
| 4 | This was a much changed Phillis from the buoyant , flushed — as a blown-up frog with her self-importance — righteous one that had left the house hardly an hour before . |
| 5 | Germany 's captain Nikki Pilic , who had barely put the debacle surrounding Germany 's Olympic nominations behind him , came in for criticism for not resting Becker from the second day 's doubles , especially after he had been forced to play himself into the ground to beat Luis Mattar over five sets in exhausting heat on the first day . |
| 6 | Henry III died in November 1272 , when Edward was campaigning in Sicily but he returned and , at the age of 33 , became King Edward I , and although it was his wish to finally liberate Jerusalem from the Moslem Saracens , he became involved in England , Wales and Scotland . |
| 7 | More importantly , he was not tonsured : Lothar , perhaps moved by the obligations of a godfather , could not bring himself thus to exclude Charles from the ranks of the throneworthy . |
| 8 | The agricultural and urban prosperity of the county , together with that of the rest of England , received a severe blow in the later 1340s when the Black Death finally reached England from the continent . |
| 9 | Police helmets could be seen bobbing above the crowd as a small corps of police officers attempted to force their way through to rescue Clasper from the hands of the mob . |
| 10 | Hekmatyar had refused to join the interim government , and his forces and artillery still threatened Kabul from the south . |
| 11 | Approaching from Shurton and Stogursey , Henry Poole and his companions probably entered Stowey from the north . |
| 12 | First he made a gourd spring up to protect Jonah from the sun ( by ‘ gourd ’ we are to understand something like the castor-oil plant or Palma Christi , with its rapid growth and all-sheltering leaves ) ; then , with no more than a wave of the silk handkerchief , he sent a maggot to destroy the said gourd , leaving Jonah painfully exposed to the heat . |
| 13 | The Liverpool boss 's punishment inflicted following a verbal attack on officials at the end of the second round first leg in the Lenin Stadium also excludes Souness from the dressingroom area . |
| 14 | The Liverpool boss 's punishment inflicted following a verbal attack on officials at the end of the second round first leg in the Lenin Stadium also excludes Souness from the dressingroom area . |
| 15 | The Liverpool boss 's punishment inflicted following a verbal attack on officials at the end of the second round first leg in the Lenin Stadium also excludes Souness from the dressing-room area . |
| 16 | North , carefully distracting Livingstone from the thought that hostages might have been ransomed for arms , gave him the Whole Picture . |
| 17 | Far from relenting , his fingers tightened even more , nearly lifting Isabel from the ground . |
| 18 | She had successfully sidetracked Rachaela from the subject of the blood . |
| 19 | ‘ And , if I do n't , out goes Peter from the ancestral home without a penny in his pocket . ’ |
| 20 | The army which set out to recover Berwick from the Scots in July 1319 was some 14,000 strong , but it ended with a humiliating retreat and flight into England ; undoubtedly the Scottish outflanking movement which penetrated deep into England was the major contributor to this disaster , but acrimony between Lancaster and Edward may have helped bring it about and was certainly magnified by it , so that afterwards the relations of the two men rapidly deteriorated just at the time when Despenser the younger was antagonizing other magnates as well . |
| 21 | It immediately distinguished Britain from the rest of Western Europe , especially as nuclear facilities were being created almost from the outset . |
| 22 | She could n't reach Kelpie from the nearest branch to him , but when she was as near as she could get she put out her hand and called softly to him , just as she used to do at home . |
| 23 | Then she vaguely remembered fitzAlan saying something about circling around to approach Winchester from the north in case of pursuit . |
| 24 | Turn round ! girl , ’ and swung her round by the shoulders , and while holding her with one hand she ripped the pieces of tape from the end of each plait , before she tore at the hair until it hung in uneven strands ; then she almost lifted Millie from the floor as , using both hands now , she drew the strands together and began forming them into a tight rope-like plait . |
| 25 | And proof that an informant had indeed reached Edward from the town was provided by the fact that the emissaries now demanded that the required hostage should be none other than Seton 's own son , a young man whom he had brought with him to Berwick on his first military venture , unfortunate a start as this had turned out to be . |
| 26 | Žižka went on successfully to defend Bohemia from the crusades which were preached against the Hussites who , by this time , had acquired a thoroughly democratic and Protestant cast . |
| 27 | An unusual warbird participant will be a privately owned Canberra from the USA wearing Royal Australian Air Force colours . |
| 28 | This does not preclude the possibility that the Woodvilles turned against their former ally in 1483 and cynically excluded Gloucester from the protectorship in order to secure more power for themselves . |
| 29 | This does not preclude the possibility that the Woodvilles turned against their former ally in 1483 and cynically excluded Gloucester from the protectorship in order to secure more power for themselves . |
| 30 | After so many hours , lives , speeches spent , Thus once again says Nestor from the Greeks : ‘ Deliver Helen , and all damage else — As honour , loss of time , travail expense , Wounds , friends , and what else dear that is consumed In hot digestion of this comorant war — Shall be struck off . ’ |