Example sentences of "[verb] from [noun] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Particularly bold demands were said to have come from students close to the Liberian border .
2 The small tools have come from yards all over the country .
3 Birds of prey must be attracted from miles away by the spectacular aerobatics .
4 These experiences do not , of course , wholly explain modern union behaviour or remove from unions much of the responsibility for changing matters .
5 Henry 's brother George suffered from croup later in the year .
6 An extant letter of 2 May , written from Northampton nominally by the prince , requests the archbishop of Canterbury to see to the safe-keeping of the great seal , the royal treasure and the Tower of London .
7 An extant letter of 2 May , written from Northampton nominally by the prince , requests the archbishop of Canterbury to see to the safe-keeping of the great seal , the royal treasure and the Tower of London .
8 The group operates state-of-the-art microbeam and bulk analytical facilities , together with a full range of high pressure-high temperature equipment , with applications ranging from processes deep in the upper mantle to reactions in petroleum reservoirs .
9 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 … ’
10 When he plays Mowgli , Karim 's skin is deemed too pallid and he is forced to wear black-and-white minstrel greasepaint ; cast as a downtrodden immigrant in his next part , he caricatures Changez , his fat , idle and ugly cousin-in-law , who arrives from India halfway through the novel .
11 FIVE FUNKY FEMALES between 17 and 18 years into soul/hip hop/house- Enjoy warehouse parties , would seriously love to hear from people all over the place , especially males who would like to show us some good places .
12 Gone was the flattened-out effect ; a more contoured look was possible with these sticks that could be bought from chemists all over the country .
13 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 .
14 Wine is exported from areas all over the world .
15 The lichen is gathered from rocks late in the summer , dried in the sun , then it is placed with the wool in alternating layers in a large pot .
16 Hundreds of thousands of personal pledges received from countries all over the world will be attached to the Tree of Life as a powerful visual expression of the concern of individuals for the state of the Earth and their commitment to protect it .
17 Offers of help for the Bosnian evacuees have been received from countries all over the world including Britain .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 Threshing machinery was driven by horse-wheel when mechanical threshing was introduced from Scotland late in the eighteenth century with the development of the threshing drum , to relieve men from the real hard labour of threshing with flails , although in areas where the straw was required for thatching , hand-threshing continued long after the appearance of machinery .
21 The period from the building of the first cotton mills up to a restrictive parliamentary act of 1816 was the era of the factory apprentices — pauper children brought from workhouses all over the country to be indentured to misery .
22 It was a pegged-down contest and Tony , whose weight helped the Personal Members Red Team into top spot , fished from rocks close to the ‘ T ’ junction using lugworm and mackerel .
23 The last great bustard disappeared from Britain early in the nineteenth century .
24 ‘ 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 . ’
25 Hundreds of do-it-yourself cement mixers have been removed from shops tonight after the discovery of electrical faults which could kill .
26 Roach being taken from swims just above the by pass bridge .
27 The original was discovered as one of 115,000 samples taken from plants all over the world .
28 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 .
29 I said well I , I 'm a confident cook , I 've cooked from meals all round the world you know , and she s and erm , she said oh that 's worth knowing , now the
30 They had all come from Bangor together for the game .
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