Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] from [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among those I met or saw were the Begum Aga Khan , who was with her very attractive daughter Princess Zahra Aga Khan ; the Director General of the British Equestrian Foundation Major Malcolm Wallace , two of our top Event riders Miss Karen Straker and Mrs Jane Thelwall ; and Mr Andrew Dixon , who had all come over from England with the Hermès party ; Mr Peter Laing , the Hon. |
| 2 | The madman has just flown in from Rome on a whim , to spend a few days with me here . |
| 3 | But anyway , talking about engineering as a whole , quite obviously it 's interesting to go back a bit because I 'm always interested in the way the institutions actually started because er there 's a lovely story about er , the Stephenson brothers and tho , ju , having just come down from Scarborough on a mini-holiday we stopped at York and I went over a great big museum there , and quite obviously seeing the marvellous locomotives you realise that George Stevenson had er , a lot to do with that . |
| 4 | One British firm has just come back from France with almost £1m for its contribution towards landscaping . |
| 5 | No he 's just come back from Tunisia on holiday so he 'll need it . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd finally won custody of my daughter Eva and we had just moved down from Scotland to Leeds with my boyfriend Glynn . |
| 7 | By the time Wordsworth finally set out from Bristol to Racedown in the autumn of 1795 , he had , in the words of The Prelude , ‘ Yielded up moral questions in despair ’ . |
| 8 | In 1911 he returned to railway service as personal assistant to ( Sir ) H. Nigel Gresley [ q.v. ] , who had just taken over from Ivatt on the Great Northern railway . |
| 9 | A few class L1 tanks were allocated locally to Colwick , and one of these was usually worked back from Sheffield as pilot to the morning ‘ all stations ’ to Nottingham . |
| 10 | Although the railways were crucial to tea-growing and marketing from Ceylon — because of the absence of other suitable forms of transportation — tea was successfully brought out from Assam by elephant , ‘ country boat ’ , and steamer for several decades before the arrival of the railway . |