Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [noun prp] [verb] [adv prt] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new president is not expected to take office until March 1990 , or at best 1 January if Jose Sarney steps down from the presidency early . |
| 2 | Keep it quiet — and stay out of the forest until Giles Aplin comes back from London . |
| 3 | She looked so fresh and happy that I started grinning as soon as I waved to her , standing below me in the cockpit of the boat , where a servant from Faalifu was carrying some packages while Captain Baker looked down from the bridge . |
| 4 | In one of his most critical speeches since John Major took over from Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister , Sir Edward said it was wrong for parties to make pledges on taxation at elections . |
| 5 | Before Kevin Ryan came back from America and bought the Half House from the last improvident Hamilton , nephew of her mother 's first husband who 'd been killed at Tobruk . |
| 6 | Even before Desmond Boal stepped down from the chairmanship of the Party to advocate his idea of a federal Ireland , the Party was very much what even DUP activists admit to have been ‘ Paisley 's fan club ’ . |
| 7 | The only partial exception is Peru : after Morales Bermúdez took over from Velasco in 1975 the military regime drifted rightwards and trade with the Soviet Union sharply diminished . |
| 8 | As Elijah Moshinsky looked out from the roof-top coffee shop of the plush hotel overlooking Plymouth Hoe — in which he is ensconced during rehearsals of Shadowlands — he confessed that this was the first time he had been to Plymouth in his life . |
| 9 | When Mr. Andrew came back from the war old Mr. Stavanger was dead . |
| 10 | When Mr Wormwood arrived back from the garage that evening his face was as dark as a thunder-cloud and somebody was clearly for the high-jump pretty soon . |
| 11 | When Harold Macmillan took over from Anthony Eden in January that year , he had three primary objectives in mind : to place the British economy on a sounder footing ; to repair the damage done to Anglo-American relations by Suez ; and to restore the fortunes of the Conservative Party . |
| 12 | As Sam Somerville took off from Heathrow , Dr Barnard was sitting in his laboratory in Fulham staring at a small collection of pieces of debris spread on a crisp white sheet of paper across a table-top . |
| 13 | He left the Operations Room and was running up the Pit transport belt when Cheryl Russell swung in from a side corridor and very nearly cannoned into him . |
| 14 | When Nicholas McGegan took over from John Eliot Gardiner as Music Director of the Göttingen Handel Festival , he took with him the idea of recording all his performances on CD . |