Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The King graciously stood godfather ; the baby of course was named George and was given a silver bowl inscribed ‘ The gift of His Majesty King George to his godson , George Lamb , Anno Dom 1725 ’ A story has grown up from this — for years I thought it was true — that Henry James saw this bowl — it had become by legend , golden — and the sight was the seed that led to his novel , The Golden Bowl . |
| 2 | Obviously a lot of this racism has seeped down from the top ; for example the police are part of a racist legal system so you 've got to expect them to hold those views . |
| 3 | IN THE first part of this book Michael Shallis gives an interesting non-technical account of how modern physics has gone on from the common-sense notion of time to a whole series of fundamental changes . |
| 4 | Since covering the restoration of the Benson Gustav in the July issue , much feedback has come in from our ever-vigilant readers . |
| 5 | Eastern Europe chills down and while it 's often dry , snow starts taking over from rain . |
| 6 | And on Wednesday Judy Robinson is set to leave the Grey Horse pub , Bank Top Judy 's rent has gone up from £13,000 to £25,000 . |
| 7 | Tory group leader Coun John Hale said : ‘ It all stems back to the early days when people were encouraged not to pay and the momentum has built up from this . ’ |
| 8 | It is undoubtedly a good thing that royal reporting has moved on from the tradition of deferential reverence in which James Whitaker first learned his trade . |
| 9 | Sure enough , due to prospects this year of a vintage declaration and an estimated shortfall of supply over demand ( although the latest estimated harvest figure has gone up from 250 to 274 million bottles ) , the price per kilo of grapes was fixed at 26.77 French francs , a 13.78 per cent increase over last year . |
| 10 | The United Kingdom had a serious balance of payments problem in manufactured goods , which was only partly disguised by the revenue beginning to flood in from North Sea oil , which had a limited life . |
| 11 | ‘ Was there never sign of a boat having put over from Parfois by night ? |
| 12 | But the attempt to remove the deer failed in both forests , because fresh stock kept coming in from adjoining woods . |
| 13 | US officials reportedly expressed concerns that the Soviet side had drawn back from previously agreed elements of the START treaty , and that at the same time it appeared to be adopting a less conciliatory stance on other arms control and disarmament issues , such as the ceiling on troops in Central Europe and the outline of an " Open Skies " treaty agreed in February [ ibid . ] . |
| 14 | The Gold Coast had fallen back from the situation 50 years earlier when English-educated Africans had played a leading part in administration , Christian leadership , the judiciary and the learned professions . |
| 15 | Major debt defaults in Mexico and Brazil had prompted a worldwide retreat from international bank lending and the virtual collapse of the syndicated loan market ; since then , unofficial observers estimated that some $45,000 million of net development capital aid had flowed back from the borrowing countries and towards the lenders . |
| 16 | Since joining Cardiff , Walker has become an overnight success , scoring eight First Division tries in a dozen matches as the club have moved up from strugglers last season to table-toppers . |
| 17 | Work has come in from all over the UK , and even the charity Farm Africa uses the Hoy facility . |
| 18 | The evening sun has burst out from cloud over London and flooded the fronts of the houses in the lane with a mature and contented light . |
| 19 | However , these are the only building blocks which the Chancellor has to work on from which to construct next Thursday 's ( 12 November ) Autumn Statement . |
| 20 | Salad consumption has gone up from 1.44oz to 1.89oz per week . |
| 21 | Citrus fruit consumption has gone up from 2.70oz per person per week in 1982 for oranges to 2.99oz , and for other citrus fruits from 1.72oz to 2.19oz . |
| 22 | ‘ Top class sport has taken over from war . |
| 23 | Over the last five years criminal legal aid has soared from £25 million to £47 million while advice and assistance has gone up from £5.9 million to £15.4 million . |
| 24 | But perhaps the machine has taken over from the individual . |
| 25 | Over the last 20 years a pint of milk has increased five-fold from 5p to 26p today , and a loaf of bread has gone up from 10p to 47p . |
| 26 | Deputation after deputation came pouring in from constituencies whose candidatures had been assigned to Lloyd George Liberals . |
| 27 | As the 22 men in the three boats had just taken their respective stations , a young girl came running down from the village to the shore in breathless haste . |
| 28 | Sometimes a trait gets passed on from generation to generation , and sometimes it can be missed out altogether . |
| 29 | To return to the example , the non-distressed parent may choose to make explicit to the friend her own thinking , such as ‘ well , the children do usually obey us and every parent gets wound up from time to time with their child ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ I had no idea what the response would be , but all of a sudden all this equipment started coming in from all over the world . |