Example sentences of "from [noun prp] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From Thaxted we went to a lovely old thatched pub called the Ashtree at Burton End . |
| 2 | Me dad came to live er me dad from Norfolk he came in shepherd boy |
| 3 | From Santiago we flew for an hour to Vigo , which has a smaller airport but is a much larger town and is in fact Spain 's largest port . |
| 4 | A few miles upstream from Luxor we moored beneath a high bank . |
| 5 | What was the latest style to arrive in London , I asked three young Muslim women from Mirpur who live in a North London suburb . |
| 6 | From Eton he went to New College , Oxford , to read natural sciences ( zoology ) and engineering , receiving a second class in 1910 . |
| 7 | But he did like the young woman , a hoyden from Somerville who gambled on the horses and was always broke . |
| 8 | It 's the work of Geoff Oakes , a quietly-spoken young man from Stoke who went to the Haçienda one night in 1988 and got bitten bad . |
| 9 | Just 1,500km ( 932 miles ) from Moscow we passed over the Ural mountains which divide Europe from Asia . |
| 10 | From Crete they escaped to Alexandria . |
| 11 | From Haworth they went to Holyhead and on to Dublin . |
| 12 | DARRYL PITT , the 23-year-old centre from Brisbane who arrived in England on Thursday , has signed for joint Second Division leaders Fulham . |
| 13 | A less obvious but equally successful choice was Arrigo Sacchi , an unknown second-division manager from Parma who brought to Milan an attractive , attacking ( and so rather un-Italian ) type of football . |
| 14 | From Ajaccio they travelled by bus to Porto Vecchio , Minton sleeping much of the time with his mouth open and head lolling against Ross 's shoulder . |
| 15 | From Santana we continue to São Jorge along a road lined with arum lilies and Watsonia . |
| 16 | The only described white man is a police man from Brooklyn who works with his black partner to try and extract information from a black boy , Imamu , after the daughter of the family he is living with goes missing . |
| 17 | By means not specified , from Portugal he arrived in Victorian England , where he got the idea that Lady Laetitia Winthrop ( played by a ‘ discovery ’ from the world of modelling , whose acting talent was 36-23-36 ) was his long-lost love from a world before the subterranean cavern . |
| 18 | He was the owner and shipmaster of the Russell , and when he was n't off at sea ( which was usually ) she sometimes saw him striding through the village with Mr Bryant , a gentleman from Plymouth who went on voyages as navigator with him . |
| 19 | While he was there , he got an invitation from Archbishop Hugh to go to Lyons , and from Lyons he wrote to the pope explaining his reasons for leaving England . |
| 20 | A particularly ugly BROWNIE or sprite from Scotland who acts as a guardian for a mill . |
| 21 | Nor are there many documentary examples : the words do lego darique volo are found in an inscription from Spain which dates from the end of the second century . |
| 22 | Nice to speak to you , erm , I 'd just like to say that er , take me now as a , as a normal chap from England who looked across right through his life at Russia as the big bad bear and eight years ago I had the opportunity of going over there , just an ordinary chap and er , of course , there 's so much about the Soviet Union we do n't know , we did , we , erm , for instance we were over there in 1982 when they were celebrating sixty years of the incorporation of the saints into the Soviet Union . |
| 23 | From Trondheim we went over the mountain ridge and the border into Sweden . |
| 24 | There are two buses a day from Whaddon which leave outside the nuclear shelter at 6.15 a.m. or 7.34 p.m . |
| 25 | Many from Transylvania who fought for the downfall of Ceaucescu are persecuted , whilst his defenders are treated as heroes . |
| 26 | William Shakespeare left his wife his ‘ second best bed ’ , and an industrialist from Philadelphia who died in 1947 included among his bequests , ‘ to my wife I leave her lover , and the knowledge that I was n't the fool she thought I was ’ . |
| 27 | On the flight back from Dortmund I talked to Lynn Davies , who was again our team manager , about the problem . |
| 28 | It is also interesting that three of the four responses from Jane which overlap with Brenda 's talk in this turn exactly correspond to the points where she switches code . |
| 29 | The peptides from CSP which bound to HLA-B53 , that is , cp6 , cp6.1 and cp6.2 are allelic variants . |
| 30 | Yeah every time I get me take-away curry from Ripon I park outside the house that 's somebody comes and he says you ca n't park there . |