Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] from [noun prp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the first peoples to burst out of Central Asia and into the lands south and west of the Caspian were the Seljuks , a people of Turkish stock who subdued a broad band of territory from Afghanistan across to Syria , occupying Damascus and Jerusalem . |
| 2 | The new British prime minister , Sir Anthony Eden , who had finally managed to take over the reins of power from Churchill only in 1955 , was determined to try to moderate the hostility between Britain and her former wartime ally after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953 . |
| 3 | JOAN Collins , recently named one of the top 10 sexiest women of all time , flew into London from Argentina yesterday with just one thing on her mind — bed . |
| 4 | Such measures are thought to make it possible to eliminate through traffic from Greatham apart from a maximum of six days a year the MoD would still require the closure of Woolmer Road . |
| 5 | She said it 's a big , big cut off , if your phone rings you 're out , so of course the phone were ringing , then it went to one in post , no it never , it went first from Ann from Lynnette then to Ann and then it went to Kathy and then it went to erm somebody else and then it come to me but I 've got seven hundred thousand pounds worth of money on my desk that I were banking and Jane had got that job and Jane was on post in cash cos she ai n't got a job cos that thing with them shoes did n't take off and do you know |
| 6 | In winter from Redshank also by dark wings , white underparts and longer legs , trailing well behind in flight , and from Greenshank by darker upper parts and red legs . |
| 7 | The lowest through fare from London straight to Redding is £385 midweek , low season . |
| 8 | But the 41-year-old star decided there was no place like home and flew back to Britain from Hollywood yesterday with children Katie , 10 , seven-year-old Sean and her film director boyfriend James Keach . |
| 9 | On arrival at the Salters ' Hall the guests , many of whom had travelled by bus from Shropshire especially for the occasion , were greeted by Sir Peter and Lady Gadsden and Mr and Mrs Alan Henn before everyone went in to dinner . |