Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] from [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally sport : Oxford United have made a new signing this afternoon ; Jim Magilton has joined from Liverpool for a hundred thousand pounds . |
| 2 | Xorandor explains that he lives on radioactivity , that he has come from Mars in search of food , and that he has been stealing the waste to feed himself . |
| 3 | Finance director Keith Todd announced that ICL has gained one point of market share in the UK , in a declining overall market — stealing back a little of the market share that IBM UK has won from ICL over the past 20 years . |
| 4 | Shylock describes the persecution he has suffered from Antonio in Act 1 , Scene 3 , lines 102–104 . |
| 5 | He succeeds Anneli Janhonen , who has moved from Helsinki to Geneva to head the Information Department of the Lutheran World Federation . |
| 6 | Since his election Dr. Kumar has had regular battles with Mr Bates , who since his narrow defeat has moved from Gateshead to Marton . |
| 7 | Dorothy Armitage ( Mrs Turk ) has moved from Manchester to Rye because she and her husband are both retired and will now be near their family in Kent . |
| 8 | The Aussie trio is led by newly-signed Steve Regeling who has moved from Exeter with Dave Cheshire , who spent most of last season recovering from a bad wrist injury , and Mark Lemon whose plans to move into the first division have been put on ice . |
| 9 | And Philip Ziegler has moved from HarperCollins to Sinclair-Stevenson and Mandarin , with his book about London during the Second World War ; publication will be in 1995 and the agent is Diana Baring at Curtis Brown . |
| 10 | Many of these have been published as national biographical repertories , but not all are complete ( that for France , for example , had reached the letter D when the first edition of this book appeared and has now , nineteen years later , almost completed G , Italy , in the same time , has got from B to C. Works for reference such as these form the scholarly end of a spectrum of contemporary works which runs at its other extreme into straightforward journalism . |
| 11 | Mike takes the editor 's chair from Allan Olleveant who has retired from ICI after 41 years service . |
| 12 | HELPING other people has been a way of life for Vera Taylor who has retired from Capenhurst after almost 18 years . |
| 13 | The chain has stretched from Uganda to Grenada and Nicaragua , since the 1970s . |
| 14 | It is a practical objection not one of principle , and I believe that it was the fundamental reason that Lord Reid , for example , considered the general rule to be a good one as he said in the passage my noble and learned friend has cited from Beswick v. Beswick [ 1968 ] A.C. 58 , 74A . |
| 15 | Jeremy Richardson , Edinburgh Academicals ’ 1987 World Cup lock , has joined Glasgow High/Kelvinside , and Richard Hastings has swopped from Currie to West of Scotland . |
| 16 | In a move that had been the subject of rumours for many months , Jeffrey Archer has gone from Hodder to HarperCollins in a two-book deal . |
| 17 | It is , I think , the logical conclusion of the line in Enlightenment thought which has run from Rousseau through Nietzsche and Sartre — the strand of truly anarchic individualist thinking which avoids the vulgar Nozickian ‘ libertarian ’ path of concentrating on the freedom of certain selected institutions such as commercial companies , and genuinely exalts only the freedom of the individual . |
| 18 | This year Bradl has a new two-year contract with HB and he has switched from Michelin to Dunlop tyres . |
| 19 | It is the second time Kemp has switched from Slough to Selhurst Park . |
| 20 | In more recent years , the work of the Dragon Project has extended from Rollright to dozens of other sites throughout the country , including ‘ control ’ sites . |
| 21 | ROD Jones has returned from Romania with a message for his fellow aid workers : ‘ The situation is desperate . ’ |
| 22 | They 'd driven from Oldfield to London with four dark bays . |
| 23 | She 'd driven from Newcastle to virtually to with the choke on ! |
| 24 | A West German ship with a cargo of uranium concentrate bound from Antwerp to Genoa disappeared and its cargo later turned up in Israel . |
| 25 | Messiahs appeared , as we all know , under the procuratorships of Cuspius Fadus and Antonius Felix , and Josephus decried them as men who deceived and deluded the people by their pretence of having received from God in the wilderness the signs of liberty ( Jos . |
| 26 | Having marched from Inverness along the side of Loch Ness he waited for a day in the hope that more pack-horses would turn up , but when none were forthcoming left behind most of his supplies and provisions , though his men were still heavily burdened as they crossed the mountains in search of the enemy ; roads in the Highlands , and local sources of supply , were almost non-existent . |
| 27 | The EC Monitor Mission ( ECMM ) had decided to base itself in the RSK town of Knin , having withdrawn from Sarajevo in May . |
| 28 | I can only imagine that shortly before the excursions a long double headed steam train must have travelled from Shrewsbury to Machynlleth , but I do n't know the times . |
| 29 | On 8 April the British cruiser London arrived , having come from Gibraltar in twenty-four hours . |
| 30 | It has a charming , white stuccoed wiggly gable , two windows wide , that might have come from Amsterdam with the King 's guns . |