Example sentences of "from [pos pn] [noun] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chancellor stayed in Italy even though Premier John Major and Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd rushed back from their hols abroad for the emergency session over possible action against Iraq . |
| 2 | Lambert 's successor on Doctor Who was former in-house Script Editor John Wiles , strongly recommended to Sydney Newman by Donald Wilson from their days together in the Script Department . |
| 3 | They compensate for this by gaining water from their food both through the workings of their powerful kidneys , which extract much of the water from the urine , and by the condensation of water during breathing . |
| 4 | When at times she is feeling particularly low and bereft , you might also remind her gently that although it seems that love has departed from her life altogether with the loss of her husband , this is not so . |
| 5 | This must go up on the wall ! ’ and stick his latest painting up with Sellotape alongside the daubs by the mentally handicapped group she had played for at Christmas , and the postcards from her friends all over the world . |
| 6 | These values are expressed , not only in words , but in actions — most notably in that scrupulous attention to detail that has set McDonald 's apart from its competitors ever since the early 1950s . |
| 7 | So the Collector had arranged that the giant Sikh , Hookum Singh , should be at his side in the most central part of the Residency ready to wield the Church bell which had been toppled from its tower earlier in the siege and which only he was strong enough to lift . |
| 8 | Erm Eric in , in Manchester from where he comes is extremely well known obviously within the G M B but his record he 's one of the individuals in the trade union movement that I think are becoming somewhat of a rarity these days I know that many of us when we first started in the movement were very easily able , and , and very relaxed about combining trade union and political activities together but of course as time goes on and , you do tend to become more involved in the one and the other , because of course it 's all time-consuming but I can honestly say that in Eric 's case he 's never deviated one iota from his commitment both to the trade union , this union in particular , and to the Party never deviated at all . |
| 9 | Arnold Quainoo , had been removed from his post shortly after the September 1989 alleged coup attempt and his responsibilities assumed by Rawlings [ see p. 36967 ] . |
| 10 | Francis Pym , who had given a somewhat hesitant performance at the Foreign Office in the Prime Minister 's view , was removed from his post immediately after the election . |
| 11 | There simply is n't any dramatic , conflict in a story about a purported villain who wears a Beatle cap , drinks from a huge glass with fish in it and gazes out from his island home on the great blue sea as he waits for his pursuers , a pair of handsome would-be lovers who sing songs like ‘ We could of , we should of , perhaps we can . |
| 12 | Peter took the bar over from his father shortly after the war . |
| 13 | Now you have agreed to take questions from our audience here in the studio , on any subject ? |
| 14 | We had straight from our wages straight to the union , it 's payed at union right away . |
| 15 | I understand , as a penance , you walk barefoot from your church here to the Galilee Gate , saying your beads and go back chanting the psalms . |
| 16 | And at the same time it draws attention away from your activities here in the Wilds . |