Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | No changes … a new skipper though Shaun Taylor has officially taken over from Ross Maclaren … |
| 2 | Gavin Scott has now moved on from science to other things ( he is reading the news on TV-am 's Good Morning Britain ) , so we shall not , presumably , see the further development of his short career in science . |
| 3 | Benny usually went home around four-thirty unless the boss offered him some overtime , and Joe Maitland had not arrived back from his buying trip . |
| 4 | Edward had not come back from the construction firm at David with anything saved up , but then , she had hardly expected him to . |
| 5 | By creating a few developmental teams covering comparatively large areas , Nottinghamshire had also departed radically from the National Development Group for the Mentally Handicapped ( 1977 ) model of a CMHT . |
| 6 | That was the most personally evocative thing of all , Sabine thought , wincing , and she could understand why Hugh had always shied away from clearing out his wife 's things . |
| 7 | Capercaillie in Scotland have already come back from near extinction once . |
| 8 | HAPPY campers Ron and Olive Saunders have just returned home from their 166th holiday at Butlins . |
| 9 | Eddie had just got back from work when they had a row in the kitchen . |
| 10 | ‘ O Jesus Christ , ’ he said , looking over my shoulder as if JC had just wandered in from the garden , ‘ did you die for this boy ? ’ |
| 11 | Mr Stevenson had also worked away from his home in Leyland , Lancashire before . |
| 12 | I 'm afraid Mr Steen has n't come up from the country . ’ |
| 13 | ( Jiang Zemin , CCP general secretary , was elected to succeed him , as the only candidate , on April 4 : Jiang had already taken over from Deng , in November 1989 , the chairmanship of the party CMC . ) |
| 14 | Lee had just come back from shopping . |
| 15 | ‘ At least Mike has n't run away from his past . |
| 16 | The Warbutt had not come down from his tower to wish his son farewell , and Bicker was grim and silent with his cloak held up around his mouth and ice crystals forming on it where his breath froze . |
| 17 | The differences between the painters appear to have been purely personal , but Delaunay had also moved away from the other Cubists in his works of 1912 , and , using his Cubist researches as a point of departure , was developing a much more purely abstract kind of painting with colour as its principal element . |
| 18 | Finally it will be bundled with a Windows-based graphical client , something that Pick has long shied away from , but which it now accepts that is on a number of users ' ‘ tick-boxes ’ . |
| 19 | That 's the reality of homebuilding , and in this book Geoff Jones has n't shied away from recognising that patience and a sense of humour are as essential to the completion of a project as adeptness with bandsaw or metal shears . |
| 20 | But despite being subject to the second wave of pan-European reform in psychiatry since the 1940s , France has not moved away from the asylums with any speed . |
| 21 | Newell has also arrived impressively from the Second and took his goal with poise . |
| 22 | She and Mandy had finally got in from last night 's fiasco around four in the morning . |
| 23 | Tremayne made more than his usual fuss over Fiona , sensing some sort of turmoil , telling her comfortably that Mackie had just come back from Ascot races where he 'd sent a runner for the apprentice race which had proved a total waste of time . |
| 24 | In Alessio Rospigliosi had already turned away from the heavily exploited areas of classical mythology and Christian epic to open up the unpromising vein of hagiology ; he now struck an infinitely more successful one . |
| 25 | Zambia has also suffered economically from destabilization and economic sabotage first by the white Rhodesian regime and then by South Africa , and from the knock-on effects of the wars in neighbouring Angola and Mozambique . |
| 26 | Panama remained physically cut off from the rest of the world yesterday , with the national airport closed and under US control , and the northern border with Costa Rica sealed . |
| 27 | There is a considerable shake-up at the Northern Ireland Office , where Sir Patrick Mayhew has already taken over from Mr Peter Brooke as Secretary of State . |