Example sentences of "[verb] from [noun sg] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Britain the populist , anti-intellectual pressure has come from government instead of from the people . |
| 2 | Henry 's brother George suffered from croup later in the year . |
| 3 | Acting on this belief , he has : taken one of the most outspoken current-affairs programmes , ‘ Vzglyad ’ ( Outlook ) , off the air ; confiscated the property of the independent news agency Interfax , which was saved from closure only by the intervention of Boris Yeltsin and the Moscow city council ; suspended a free-thinking television news show called ‘ TSN ’ ; and consigned Radio Russia , Mr Yeltsin 's mouthpiece , to a frequency where most of the population can not hear it begin its broadcasts with phrases like ‘ In another move reminiscent of Stalinism , President Gorbachev today … ’ |
| 4 | Along the length of the coast the story was now everywhere the same : Allied troops hanging on to vulnerable footholds , saved from annihilation only by their dogged courage . |
| 5 | Under rules which came into effect last autumn , as his sentence was less than four years , he will be freed from jail automatically after serving half the term , unless he reoffends . |
| 6 | All this , but with examples drawn from chess instead of from whist and bridge , is what Wittgenstein has in mind when he says that the term ‘ language-game ’ is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity . |
| 7 | It 's one of the busiest nightspots in the Mediterranean and the streets are simply crowded from dusk onwards with young people going about the serious business of enjoying themselves , socialising , trying the local brew , ‘ discovating ’ and generally having a good time until the early hours of the morning ! |
| 8 | A police spokesman said the person police want to hear from drove past in a large , light-coloured estate car after pulling out of Bagshaw Road , opposite the bank machine . |
| 9 | In 1774–80 for every British seaman who lost his life in battle , fifteen died of disease , while in 1779 Britain was preserved from invasion partly by the scurvy which swept the French and Spanish squadrons then for a time in control of the Channel . |
| 10 | With such equipment , staff could work from home instead of commuting to offices . |
| 11 | FERRANTI 'S shares encountered hectic trading when they returned from suspension yesterday as a host of conflicting rumours swept the stock market over the company 's future . |
| 12 | SCREAMING relatives were dragged from court yesterday after a joyrider who killed two children was attacked in the dock . |
| 13 | The research will concentrate on the possibility of systematizing and standardising a procedure that seems to emerge from experience hitherto with econometric models . |
| 14 | Hidden from view upstairs in the house is the room where Lawrence of Arabia used to stay , with its photos , books and , now silently put away in a box , Shaw 's dentures . |
| 15 | In navigating the corner he had walked from shade straight into the blinding-white glare of the sun and , as her gallop had ceased , so the man also stopped dead , apparently dazzled despite the protection of a pair of sepia-tinted gold-rimmed glasses . |
| 16 | Another pleasing choice was Alnus Cordata which is one of medium to large size and has heart-shaped leaves which always seem to be freshly polished and gleaming , accompanied from summer onwards by cone-shaped fruiting heads . |
| 17 | Too often , friends and colleagues react to the information that someone is suffering from depression either by agreeing that they often feel a bit down themselves but manage to cope , or else by treating the person as if he or she were suffering from mental disease . |
| 18 | The DUAC disappeared from view shortly after this , although it was revived in November 1968 in the wake of the 5 October demonstration . |
| 19 | ‘ It must be stressed , however , ’ we noted , ‘ that the book has an optimistic tone , asserting that there is still much to be gained from life even in the quickening twilight years . ’ |
| 20 | I flipped from fury straight into hilarity and collapsed on the ground beside him , rolling around in helpless laughter too . |
| 21 | Material , otherwise privileged , would be excluded from protection only in what , it is to be hoped , is the very rare case of the crooked solicitor who holds the material intending to use it for the furtherance of a personal criminal purpose . |
| 22 | She tells Karen that Victor is being excluded from school indefinitely for bullying and for kicking Joan . |
| 23 | can be obtained from thebaine only by a series of elaborate and inefficient chemical processes . |
| 24 | Many lived in squalor and poverty , went short of food when times were hard and were kept from starvation only by the meagre income they gained from non-farming pursuits , whether sidework or the labour of family members working further afield on a temporary or permanent basis . |
| 25 | Laser printer toner cartridges can be ordered from Stationery only by the persons responsible for each machine . |
| 26 | She was released from hospital yesterday after having her stomach pumped . |
| 27 | The Queen Mother , who was released from hospital yesterday after a three-night stay for an operation to remove a piece of fish lodged in her throat , is president of the association . |
| 28 | Roy Lacey returns from holiday just in time to foil the advance of an army of weeds on his hour-a-week garden larder . |