Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [verb] [adv prt] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few weeks later Patrick Ashby came back from the dead and went home to inherit the family house and fortune . |
| 2 | David Collins takes over from the injured Mike Ford … and Dave Penney is back in the side … |
| 3 | David Collins takes over from the injured Mike Ford … and Dave Penney is back in the side … |
| 4 | PETER RAWLINS , a former partner with accountants Arthur Andersen , has emerged as the International Stock Exchange 's next chief executive following the decision of Jeffrey Knight to stand down from the post , writes John Moore . |
| 5 | The room was darkened by the cloth they had pinned over the skylight , to hide the bars , and Peter Rabbit and Mrs Tiggywinkle and Jemima Puddleduck stared down from the posters on the walls . |
| 6 | MATTHEW HOWE standing back from the road nearby is thought to date from between 1665 and 1700 . |
| 7 | Piper O'Rourke looked up from the shift supervisor 's desk as a dishevelled and embarrassed Alex Bannen walked into the Belial Base Operations Room , followed by his son . |
| 8 | Fearing a tragedy of epic proportions — her mind leapt at once to Penini and then to Miss Arabel — she knocked on the open door and Mr Browning came through from the other room , so haggard and drawn in contrast to his morning self that once more she was convinced something dreadful had happened . |
| 9 | As Elijah Moshinsky looked out from the roof-top coffee shop of the plush hotel overlooking Plymouth Hoe — in which he is ensconced during rehearsals of Shadowlands — he confessed that this was the first time he had been to Plymouth in his life . |
| 10 | The election also marks a further stage in the decline of the manual workers : for example , there would be 13 miners in the new parliamentary Labour Party , against 16 in the old , and 31 in the party Harold Wilson led back from the wilderness in 1964 . |
| 11 | It seems that Meg was washing up in the pantry yesterday when Mr Swinton came in from the shore as is his custom in the afternoons , and you were with him ! |
| 12 | President Bush took over from the 78-year-old Ronald Reagan at the age of 64 but within 11 days the rigours of office had taken their toll . |
| 13 | Mr Parkinson takes over from the Rev. Tony Smailes , who began his new job as vicar of St. Cuthbert 's in Ormesby on Sunday . |
| 14 | At that moment Peter came in from the port quarter , misjudged his deflection by a fraction and blew off the Stuka 's tail . |
| 15 | The 1958 Cadillac Eldorado swept out from the garage and set off down the road from Cromcruach . |
| 16 | When Mr. Andrew came back from the war old Mr. Stavanger was dead . |
| 17 | When Mr Wormwood arrived back from the garage that evening his face was as dark as a thunder-cloud and somebody was clearly for the high-jump pretty soon . |
| 18 | Mr Bean got down from the cab , grinning happily . |
| 19 | The new president is not expected to take office until March 1990 , or at best 1 January if Jose Sarney steps down from the presidency early . |
| 20 | Brother Denis came out from the guesthall , Brother Paul from the schoolroom , with two of his boys peering out from behind his skirts , two novices and two grooms from the stable-yard , and half a dozen brothers from various scattered occupations , all appeared on the scene almost before the porter was out of his lodge in haste to greet Prior Robert , the sheriff and the guests . |
| 21 | Every category recorded an improvement and only the South West and East Anglia fell back from the April figures . |
| 22 | Tammuz faced him and Quincx Roirbak stepped back from the raw emotion on the younger man 's face . |
| 23 | This was confirmed on 17 October 1940 , when Serrano replaced Beigbeder as Foreign Minister and the Falangist Demetrio Carceller took over from the anglophile Luis Alarcón de la Lastra at the Ministry of Industry and Commerce . |
| 24 | Mr Shahiduddin Postman darted out from the crowd and with a set of violent curses sent the unfortunate untouchables scurrying off the way they had come . |
| 25 | As they reached the hall Professor Woodburn came in from the street . |
| 26 | farther east , Russian campaigns against the Buryats around the southern end of Lake Baikal went on from the 1630s to the 1680s , causing great turmoil as some Buryat and Mongol tribes withdrew to Mongolia , or were buffeted back and forward between the two aggressive empires . |
| 27 | The modern day Chiswick grew up from the gradual merging of the original Chesewic with the hamlet of Little Sutton and Stronde , linked by Turnham Green and the Brentford Road from London . |
| 28 | Len Hatch looked up from the tall tomato plants that he was tending , then looked back to what he was doing . |
| 29 | Route II came in 1943 with Brian Kellet climbing on from the chimney rift of Route I to cross the upper slabs . |
| 30 | Mike Robinson looked down from the top bunk and saw Swain standing there . |