Example sentences of "[noun sg] from [noun prp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the return journey up the incline from Coombe the engine ran out of steam , causing passengers for Plymouth to miss their last connection . |
| 2 | With effect from September the Capenhurst site will be divided into two . |
| 3 | It was warm over here by the fire and there was an unpleasant stench of stale giant and the surreptitious breaking of wind from Goll the Gorm who had eaten too much onion broth again , but these things would have to be overlooked . |
| 4 | Worst of all we are given no true insights into the man or the legend which saw the production of more than 75 films and made a poor boy from Lambeth the most famous and feted individual in the world . |
| 5 | South from Arreau the main road runs along the wide valley of the Neste d'Aure to the resort town of Saint-Lary-Soulan , and then curves to the south-east as the valley narrows and the mountains get higher . |
| 6 | A group of actors and actresses rehearse and perform a story in a circus tent , with some help from Humphrey the Victorian posing toy , and Wobble the giant clown . |
| 7 | British Gas has announced a price freeze from April the First . |
| 8 | On his return from Aden the French communist party was unequivocally beckoning Paul Nizan . |
| 9 | And it was asking too much of readers that they should insulate Eliot the editor and editorialist from Eliot the poet ; so that they should read ‘ Ash-Wednesday ’ without feeling that they were being nudged into the Roman Catholic or the Anglo-Catholic church — |
| 10 | For the safety of transport from China the request of protection by the British navy was not thought inappropriate . |
| 11 | Twenty-four years after the departure from Harran the time of the promised son 's arrival is announced . |
| 12 | Well it is n't erm , I 'm just wondering if , ah , we are getting , erm the right service from Sharon the cleaner , that we are paying for . |
| 13 | With the mosaic from Stonesfield the effect of a roundel , " with three or four concentric borders , is maintained . |
| 14 | We have gifts for mother 's day from March the twenty ninth . |
| 15 | The evidence from Charles the Bald 's reign is surprisingly clear : he could and did intervene thus — on numerous occasions and in counties that were vitally important politically and militarily . |
| 16 | In the corner , Sue is receiving head from Martin the Brummie and she stares glazedly into space , her pigtails bobbing with the motion . |
| 17 | Number five ma'am er Madam Speaker examples include the introduction of it new integrated regional offices and the creation of a single regeneration budget from April the first of this year . |
| 18 | She came to the post office the next evening , and the next , buying tea and a comb of honey from Lizzie the first evening , posting a letter at Annie 's counter on the Friday , waiting till the mail was sorted , each time managing to leave the post office alone with Moran . |
| 19 | In the other direction from Craigleith the route is fringed by rough grassland with some areas of hawthorn , elder and nearer Granton Road , mixed semi-natural woodland . |
| 20 | The visit to Seaworld was a favourite with many children who shrieked with delight as they got a soaking from Shamu the killer whale . |
| 21 | Thunderbirds , the Next Generation is at the Oxford Playhouse until Saturday and back in the region in Swindon at the Wyvern Theatre from July the twenty eighth until August the first . |
| 22 | For charities like World Vision from Northampton the implications of surveillance are serious |
| 23 | In 1985 his batting reached its peak at Taunton against a Warwickshire team who bowled and fielded well but who could not stop him making 322 , the highest first-class innings in England for thirty-six years ; after a slightly uncomfortable start , the second and third hundreds came off sixty-seven and sixty-three balls respectively , and only tiredness after a drive from Leeds the evening before caused his downfall . |
| 24 | A warning from BASH the BARBARIAN |
| 25 | The Jewish civil year still begins at this time , but since the exodus from Egypt the Jewish ecclesiastical year has begun with the month Nisan at the spring equinox . |
| 26 | Loss of my letter of introduction from Barry the Magus had meant that I had been unable to make the most of a brief , lacklustre meeting in Puerto Maldonaldo with its adviser Didier Lacaze , a slight , diffident Frenchman . |
| 27 | Atkinson the manager spent most of the second half demanding more effort from Atkinson the striker . |
| 28 | And here is the immortal opening paragraph from Winnie the Pooh , A.A. Milne 's eternally beloved teddy : ‘ Here is Edward Bear coming downstairs now , bump , bump , bump on the back of his head , behind Christopher Robin . |
| 29 | Edward I was also summoned at the same time , as duke of Aquitaine , ‘ to reply to us concerning the homage of Armagnac and Fézensac ’ , Auvillars , Lomagne and Lectoure , in a peremptory letter from Philip the Fair ( December 1293 ) . |
| 30 | I had a letter from Benedicta the other day . |