Example sentences of "he [verb] from [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John had advised him to transfer from Rome airport to the railway station to avoid a five hour wait at Rome , but oh ! no ! big boots insisted on flying , although the late flight from Rome is notorious — and , of course , just after John had left for Naples airport , having to do quite a lot of the journey on foot , as late evening buses stop at a given time on Public Holidays , rang to say that Alitalia was alleging weather problems at Naples and so the passengers would be transferred by coach arriving at 2am . |
| 2 | He claimed that he was the victim of a " Stalinist " campaign to oust him by fellow NSF members who had used information on him obtained from Securitate files to publish smears in the NSF-controlled media . |
| 3 | Martyn Goff was repeatedly amazed by his knowledge of books and recollects him quoting from Shakespeare and Moby Dick at length , whilst simultaneously rolling his eyes in parodic style . |
| 4 | Well I suppose he might have asked some of the fitters , but I doubt it somehow seeing some of the acquisitions that he made from Llanberis when they were closing down there . |
| 5 | His Grace , King Alexander III , was killed when he plunged from Kinghorn Ness on the night of the 18th March . |
| 6 | He realized from Carolyn 's face that it did . |
| 7 | This he expected from Turnour 's voice , manner and the way he looked as he was sitting . |
| 8 | He became from Hetton-le-Hole , a quaintly named colliery village in north east County Durham and played as a back for Ferryhill and later Eppleton in the Wearside league which , at that time , was a prolific nursery for Football League clubs . |
| 9 | It was the sense of another world which drew him ; the sense he got from MacDonald ( a convert to Broad Church Anglicanism from Congregationalism ) of Heaven being penetrable through dreams and the subconscious and the exercise of the imagination . |
| 10 | She remembered the smell as he tipped out the bag of manure he got from Tandy 's every now and then , and the way she would hold her nose and shout ‘ Pooh ! ’ , and he would laugh and call her Miss Dainty Socks . |
| 11 | Indeed he makes a most ravishing , alluring sound on his ‘ Mackenzie ’ Stradivarius ( believe me , a Strad in the wrong [ even experienced ] hands can be absolutely appalling ) , plays with commendably secure intonation , and communicates an evident enthusiasm for the music in hand , well matched by the sensitive support he receives from Devos . |
| 12 | When he read from Mr Thackeray 's Book of Snobs , choosing the ‘ Great City Snob ’ as his text , imitating the while Sir Thomas 's mannerism of impatiently snapping his fingers and clasping his lapel , followed by his grave walk , hands behind back , no one had had the least doubt as to whom was meant . |
| 13 | The hostility he encountered from Washington was far more deep-rooted and systematic than anything he had experienced in London . |
| 14 | He joins from Touche Ross where he worked in corporate finance . |
| 15 | Software engineering house LBMS has appointed Stephen Jermyn to head up its UK CASE sales operations : he joins from Ernst & Young where he was managing director . |
| 16 | Unify Corp has appointed Reza Mikailli as senior vice-president of product development : he joins from Informix , where he was in charge of development of Informix On-Line . |
| 17 | Unify Corp has appointed Reza Mikailli as senior vice president of product development : he joins from Informix , where he was responsible for development of Informix On-Line . |
| 18 | McMenemy might have been thinking of Steve Williams , another promising talent who 'd already won six England caps when he moved from Southampton to Arsenal in December l984 . |
| 19 | Shearer , who became British football 's most expensive player when he moved from Southampton to Blackburn for £3.4 million at the start of the season , has played only 30 minutes since Boxing Day . |
| 20 | The Scottish international missed the midweek defeat at Norwich as part of an agreement made between the two clubs when he moved from Carrow Road earlier this month . |
| 21 | Marinello 's drift into melancholy uncannily predicted the future that Charlie Nicholas would have to endure when he moved from Celtic to Arsenal two decades later . |
| 22 | , , , or , Leonard ( c. 1621–1685 ) , gardener and nurseryman , had one of the earliest general nursery gardens in London from the early 1640s , when he moved from Southwark to twelve acres in east London , between Brick Lane and Greatorex Street , north of Old Montagu Street . |
| 23 | When he moved from Newcastle-upon-Tyne to Nottingham he made the journey down the A1 for better fishing and the chance to learn from big name anglers . |
| 24 | Overheads continued to be minimal when , after four months , he moved from Cheshire , where he had temporarily alighted for personal reasons , to Barnoldswick in Lancashire . |
| 25 | But his career took a downward turn as he moved from Portsmouth , to Millwall , Brentford , Aldershot and finally Colchester . |
| 26 | In 1964 , at the age of 8 , he moved from Jamaica to Islington , London , where he resumed schooling , but found the demands at home often contradictory : |
| 27 | Barron bought forty acres for a nursery site in nearby Borrowash , to which he moved from Elvaston in 1865 . |
| 28 | He and his wife Mary were the only servants their master had wanted to keep when he moved from Thornfield . |
| 29 | As the romance blossomed , he moved from Enfield to be nearer her home in Coatbridge and obtained a new job in the Computer Department at Stoddard . |
| 30 | He moved from St James 's Hall to a large , sedate house in Lime Grove , and swiftly converted it into a combination of a commercial office , a factory and a school of physical culture . |