Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] from [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The bank made shipments from Timbuktu in the Middle Ages , when African gold was at its finest . ’ |
| 2 | The Center for Media and Values is best known for its quarterly magazine Media & Values , which has received support from WACC in past years . |
| 3 | The Sikorsky which had flown Hauser from Helsinki to the isolated rendezvous in the Finnish woods stood inside the clearing , its rotors motionless . |
| 4 | This was because it amounted to a transfer back to X of property in the car ( because Y 's cheque had not been met ) in return for X waiving any right to enforce payment from Y. At the time of the repossession , X was unaware of Y's sale to Z and thus by repossessing the car with Y 's acquiescence , X obtained ownership of it by virtue of section 25(1) of the 1893 Act ( i.e. section 24 of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 ) . |
| 5 | Opponents of the NGC 's plans to erect pylons from Lackenby on Teesside to Shipton near York challenged the company at a pre-public inquiry meeting in Northallerton yesterday . |
| 6 | There have already been more than 50 attempts to extort money from America with nuclear threats , some frighteningly credible . |
| 7 | Question 12 Should the Council normally exercise its discretion not to make a grant from the compensation fund where the application has already received payment from SIF to the full extent of 1 million ? |
| 8 | ‘ My brief is to channel funds from Britain into the Province . |
| 9 | He drew support from Serbs like Dragan Krpovic , a foreman in a power station close to the main Kosovo town of Pristina . |
| 10 | Driving south from Lochmaddy in 1979 brought instant joy . |
| 11 | That same month , a large group of anti-Francoist guerrillas entered Spain from France through the Val d'Aran , in the Pyrenees . |
| 12 | The Humber Tavern , built 1808 , was where the landlord used to try to attract visitors from Hull with a bathing machine . |
| 13 | Fly Delta from Gatwick to Cincinnati or Atlanta and once you 're through the convenient immigration and customs , you 'll be greeted by Delta Passenger Service Agents . |
| 14 | On the day that the som was introduced , conservative Uzbekistan closed its land border with Kirgizstan , cut telephone links and and stopped transfers from Uzbek to Kirgiz banks . |
| 15 | Wakefield-based Dale Farm Dairy , which has customers from Northampton to Middlesbrough , has a poster and radio campaign with the slogan ‘ So you think that 's fresh ’ . |
| 16 | Except , of course , she could never — ever — tell them what that folly had led to — even if , looking back , she could now honestly say that she had done nothing to provoke it , that she could have expected anger from Havvie at her changing her mind , but never that he would do as he did . |
| 17 | Steven , who re-joined Rangers from Marseille in the summer , says : ‘ Pele is a very unpredictable player . |
| 18 | ‘ I expect news from Rivera within two days at the outside . |
| 19 | On a brighter note for Hibs — this was the Easter Road side 's first point in three matches — 20-year-old Steven Tweed , playing only his second game for the club , produced a solid performance alongside the impressive Gordon Hunter in the centre of the defence , while another youngster , 22-year-old David Farrell , also earned praise from Miller for succeeding in keeping the evergreen Davie Cooper relatively quiet . |
| 20 | General Winter may have repelled invaders from Napoleon to Hitler , but he is a domestic tyrant from whom successive regimes have sought to escape by pushing south to more friendly climes and warm-water ports . |
| 21 | He continued to cooperate in the exchange of books , plants and seeds and he contributed specimens from Chelsea for Linnaeus 's son , who was forming an ambitious herbarium . |
| 22 | The mantle of scapegoat was passed down through Scotland 's goal keeping history from Martin to Haffey , to Kennedy to Rough and then to the most unlikely scapegoat , the Aberdeen and Manchester United goalkeeper Jim Leighton . |
| 23 | BANGKOK — Cambodian guerrillas are staging raids from Thailand on government positions in the northwest of the country but are not trying to hold territory , a guerrilla spokesman said yesterday , Reuter reports . |
| 24 | The tragedy happened as 100 Hibernian fans travelled south from Edinburgh for their team 's UEFA Cup match against Anderlecht in Belgium . |
| 25 | ICI supplies phenol from Billingham to the Trafford Park plant , which also buys adipic acid , propylene and small quantities of glycols from Wilton . |
| 26 | Results of Tim Wright 's research on transfer of writing skills from LSS to mainstream classrooms and benefits/problems of doing research which involves a number of other colleagues . |
| 27 | Results of Tim Wright 's research on transfer of writing skills from LSS to mainstream classrooms and benefits/problems of doing research which involves a number of other colleagues . |
| 28 | Richmond have since sought help from Middlesex in pursuing the issue while Chilcott , dismissed for the fourth time in his career with Bath , awaits the result of tonight 's meeting of the Somerset Disciplinary Committee . |
| 29 | The roots of the trade and transit dispute lay in the Nepalese decision to purchase weaponry from China in 1988 , a move which seriously offended India 's security perceptions . |
| 30 | Rivierra demonstrates the inherent difficulty of devising a cultural programme which embraces Europeans from Samos to Stornoway . |