Example sentences of "from the town " in BNC.

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1 ‘ In the morning they found him dead , face down on a bare spot , not far from the town .
2 ‘ But I am a bit disappointed that while we 've been appealing for new directors nobody from the town has come forward . ’
3 The Roslavl' party cell is thinking of recruiting up to seventy-five soldiers from the town garrison in order to collect potatoes from the area as a tax in kind .
4 The last we hear from Roslavl' on taxes is in May , when fifty-eight of the seventy-eight soldiers requested from the town garrison were sent out to collect the potato tax in kind .
5 However , there was one big kolkhoz consisting of 150 households only 20 versts from Roslavl' that was said to be too well satisfied with itself , and so did not welcome visits from the town .
6 The town of Isafjördur is on the far side of the fjord , a long way from the town , and reached by a bus ride past the first fish-drying frame you will see in this part of the island .
7 The road from the town that goes east towards Drangajökull has collapsed and no buses or lorries can get through .
8 Under a court ruling , Pastor Tokes was to be shifted east after pressure was put on church elders who acceded to the regime 's order to move the troublesome clergyman away from the town .
9 Iraq 's soldiers retreated a few miles from the town ; its policemen were still there masquerading as traffic cops .
10 The first he knows that something is up is when he hears a great cry of anguish from the town .
11 Indeed , Sombro was not long back from the town when he arrived at North Point and he appeared tired and wan as he looked up with those big eyes he inherited from the Labrador side of his lineage .
12 Finally I arrived at Ballinasloe , to find the station a long way from the town .
13 Troops loyal to the breakaway faction , led militarily from the town of Nasir , on the Ethiopian border , by Cdr Riek Machar , are now on alert expecting an attack from the town of Malakal ‘ at any time ’ , Dr Akol said .
14 Troops loyal to the breakaway faction , led militarily from the town of Nasir , on the Ethiopian border , by Cdr Riek Machar , are now on alert expecting an attack from the town of Malakal ‘ at any time ’ , Dr Akol said .
15 Modern harbourside developments are increasingly popular.At Admiral 's Quay in Falmouth , part of the old waterfront , six flats and four houses in Phase I are new and only a minute 's walk from the town .
16 Anyway , Glasgow people have always had a natural ability to entertain others , if not themselves , and as early as 11 November 1699 , a certain John Smith , not related to the John Smith who is a regular guest at a major hotel in the city , received permission from the Town Council to teach dancing .
17 There 's men from the town wanting to join up all over , and there 's enough for two serving companies frae Glasgow already .
18 Situated right beside the lake , this grand and spacious hotel is just 10 minutes from the town centre , and is idyllically set in well established gardens .
19 Ideally situated , about three minutes walk from the town centre ( pedestrian zone ) and the lake .
20 Just five minutes on foot from the town centre , this super hotel , as its name would suggest , is set in its own magnificent park .
21 Situated a little off the beaten track , the Hahnenhof is 15 minutes walk from the town centre , and is a good starting point for many pleasant rambles .
22 This very friendly gasthaus is ideally situated next to the Hahnenkamm cable car , and is just a few minutes from the town centre .
23 Although positioned well away from the town centre , the Tirolerhof is not isolated , a regular bus service passes the hotel and the hotel will run clients into Kitzbuhel in the evening and collect them again at approximately 11pm .
24 Away from Central , the loop passed beneath Lockoford Lane before turning away from the town towards Brimington and Staveley .
25 A large number of tradesmen and small merchants served the area 's needs from the town .
26 Although many of the better-paid staff , especially those with engineering expertise , were brought in from all over the country , much of the local labour came from the town of Bridgwater , ten miles away by road .
27 These , if they proceed on a large scale , can have the damaging effect of taking custom away from the town centre on a substantial scale .
28 Tullivers , as it was called , had been the home of old Admiral Josiah Trigg and his sister Lucy for almost thirty years , and when he died , suddenly one hot afternoon , after taking the sharp hill from the town at a spanking pace , his sister continued to muddle along in a vague , amiable daze for another eighteen months before succumbing to bronchitis .
29 In fact he had only been away from the town for one period of six years when he was at university in Aberdeen .
30 Conditions were not so bad , however , that Pliny and his mother could not have got well away from the town into a safer region , but they were reluctant to leave because they were worried and uncertain about the fate of the elder Pliny .
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