Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [noun prp] [verb] [adv prt] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Somerset Levels is a weird and wonderful place at the best of times , a strange flat landscape with the unnatural looking mound of Glastonbury Tor rising up from nowhere . |
| 3 | The voice of Mrs Plant called out from behind a lighted upstairs window , wanting to know whom her husband was talking to . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | On the floor , set in the middle of the elaborate mosaic that appeared to be the building 's sole concession to prettification but was in fact the evidence of its true purpose , were the bundles of artifacts Godolphin brought back from his travels , neatly tied up by Hoi-Polloi Nuits-St-Georges , the knots encrusted with scarlet sealing wax . |
| 6 | I like the way someone like Laurie Anderson crosses over from the art world to the mainstream . |
| 7 | Route II came in 1943 with Brian Kellet climbing on from the chimney rift of Route I to cross the upper slabs . |
| 8 | From this depression , the descent is continued down the Mallerstang flank , soon linking with Ais Gill coming down from Wild Boar Fell . |
| 9 | But in others Purcell takes over from the copyist in mid-movement — suggesting that he was composing directly into the theatre score . |
| 10 | The obvious alternative was for New York to take over from London , but in financial matters , as in military ones , America was not yet prepared to undertake the role of world leadership which Britain could no longer fulfil . |
| 11 | The Benetton test job had appeared to be destined for fellow-Scot David Coulthard but he , apparently , has recently been approached by Frank Williams to take over from Hill . |
| 12 | He was encouraged by Queen Victoria to branch out from studio portraits , and his landscapes attracted widespread acclaim . |