Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] from [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The bank made shipments from Timbuktu in the Middle Ages , when African gold was at its finest . ’ |
| 2 | That same month , a large group of anti-Francoist guerrillas entered Spain from France through the Val d'Aran , in the Pyrenees . |
| 3 | He dismissed protests from Friends of the Earth as ‘ scaremongering ’ . |
| 4 | This drew protests from residents of the Awlad Amira oases , which were indeed more populous but which were within easier reach of the hospital in Zawiya . |
| 5 | Rostov was one of a very few special exceptions to the Imperial edict which excluded commoners from access to the bi-annual treatment which was necessary for administration of the drug , but he saw no reason to apprise the Adjudicator of the fact . |
| 6 | Steven , who re-joined Rangers from Marseille in the summer , says : ‘ Pele is a very unpredictable player . |
| 7 | The competition involved pupils from schools throughout the area competing in darts , dominoes , draughts , chess and table tennis . |
| 8 | It seems likely that they received support from parties within the Uí Néill territory in Ireland , even from among the Dalriadic Scots and perhaps the Picts , anxious to have the bellicose Ecgfrith replaced by a more pacific figure . |
| 9 | The magazine — redesigned last year — received a certificate of merit in the competition which attracted entries from companies throughout the north of England . |
| 10 | Three fire appliances brought the blaze under control as police diverted traffic from roads near the scene . |
| 11 | The 24 hour child protection line received referrals from members of the public in Rochdale , Bury , and Oldham . |
| 12 | It was with much sadness that we received news from Molly of the sudden death of Peggy Secord 's husband while they were in Italy . |
| 13 | Her laugh was so loud it attracted glances from people in the room . |
| 14 | The plan , by Scottish Airports Ltd , was approved yesterday when councillors at Paisley rejected objections from management of the Forte Crest Hotel , who claimed the proposed two/three-star hotel , on a site yards from the former Excelsior Hotel , would lower the tone of the airport . |
| 15 | Winger Dalton joined Plymouth from Hartlepool in the £250,000 deal that took Cross to Hartlepool . |
| 16 | This problem dominated philosophy from Plato until the seventeenth century . |
| 17 | In the same year he welcomed news from France of the overthrow of Cardinal Mazarin , ‘ the first of the foolish virgins ’ , and predicted an English invasion of Scotland to root out Presbyterianism . |
| 18 | The man most likely to cause problems for the French is Maurice Johnston , the striker who joined Rangers from Nantes during the summer . |
| 19 | Tanjug said police fired rockets from helicopters into the crowd and police sprayed automatic weapons fire into the demonstrators ‘ shooting at everything that moved ’ . |
| 20 | On 28 April 1945 , the Domanov Cossacks retreated north from Tolmezzo across the border into Austria via the Ploeckenpass . |
| 21 | Some 80 delegates attended the Environmental and Business 1990s conference and heard presentations from speakers across the globe . |
| 22 | Somerville ( 1891 ) exhibited plants from Mingulay near the southern extremity of the Long Island . |
| 23 | The sluggish growth of exports last year was not mainly because they were uncompetitive , but because manufacturers , already operating at full capacity , switched output from exports to the home market to take advantage of surging demand and healthy margins . |
| 24 | But what aroused resentment from people in the film industry had nothing to do with the merits of these films , which critic Raymond Durgnat reasonably characterized as ‘ sub-Ealing comedies so timid as to be positively ingratiating , ’ nor the production programme 's lack of profitability . |
| 25 | During the third phase of his enterprise Diaghilev realised the need to keep up with the tastes of his wealthy audiences always anxious to be in fashion and commissioned works from members of the group known as Les Six . |
| 26 | The final communiqué exempted Angola from implementation of the tariff reduction programme for up to three years , and from use of the clearing house for up to four years . |
| 27 | PETER McMULLAN talked to coach IAN BIRTWELL , the former Englishman who took Canada from also-rans to the success story of the World Cup . |
| 28 | Gardai investigating the crash took statements from spectators at the gala . |
| 29 | The French men were identically garbed in black trousers and " le smoking " — a white dinner jacket cut away at the waist — while the women wore dresses from shops in the Rue Catinat fashionable enough to allow them to forget that the Rue de la Paix was a twelve-thousand-mile sea journey away . |
| 30 | The hardest of all , diamonds ( Mohs 10 ) , probably reached China from India by the third century A.D. , but their use was mainly confined to drilling fine perforations . |