Example sentences of "[vb past] from [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disapproval seeped from Frau Nordern . |
| 2 | This is another problem which surfaced from engineering attempts , but also makes itself evident in authorial blunders — the civil defence poster caption ‘ When a hand-grenade lands near by , do n't lose your head . |
| 3 | The man heading the operation , Assistant Chief Constable , Alan Rose from Dorset Police , says security for the meeting ca n't get much tighter . |
| 4 | So successful was the business that Holder 's shares rose from 2s. 10d. in 1956 to £18 10s. in 1960 . |
| 5 | For Terminal courses , the fee for a non-branch member ( covering course and registration ) went up from 7s. 0d. to 10s. 0d. ; for a branch member ( whose subscription was added to the fee ) it rose from 10s. 0d. to 12s. 0d . |
| 6 | Ya'kub and Fenarizade Zeyneddin , for example , rose from kasabat kadiliks to the kadiliks of Aleppo , and Damascus and Aleppo , respectively not long after the Ottoman conquest of those two cities ; but whether this means that these scholars ' careers represent exceptions to the rule or , on the other hand , that Aleppo and Damascus were not yet regarded as mevleviyets is not entirely clear . |
| 7 | High adventure drew from Dickson McCunn a latent heroism : Thomas Carlyle Craw had buried his sense and courage far more deeply but they are at least glimpsed at the end of an adventure story which interprets the concept of honour in terms of individual rather than of chivalric motives . |
| 8 | Acrid miasmas coiled from ventilation ducts and sewage flooded avenues . |
| 9 | The furious row between Tony Snell and a woman who phoned from Ellesmere Port was broadcast on City FM 's early morning breakfast show . |
| 10 | We have lived through the world 's worst famine for a decade ; accepted passively , pictures of Ethiopian toddlers , bloated and matchstick thin ; the tragedy at the Heysel Stadium and the Hillsborough disaster , experienced the bitterest industrial dispute in Britain since The War ; remember the IRA morning at Brighton that Mrs Thatcher was not meant to see ; the mental picture of Mrs Indira Gandhi on her funeral pyre ; the young policewoman gunned to death by a Libyan in St. James 's Square , London ; human barbarities in the South African townships ; the earthquake in Mexico City ; West Indians savaging England by 5 Tests to 0 ; the current loss of the Ashes to Australia ; Torvill and Dean taking ice dancing to new heights ; Britain 's Olympic team returning from Los Angeles with five gold medals , 11 silver and 21 bronze ; Cambridge cox sinking the boat before the race had started ; Boris Becker becoming the youngest , at 17 , to win the Wimbledon title ; England 's trouncing of Australia 3-1 in the Test series ; Bob Geldof transformed from Boomtown Rat to world-famous humanitarian ; Sandy Lyle becoming the first Briton since 1969 to win The Open . |
| 11 | Kevin Dunn reported from South Africa on Saturday . |
| 12 | Mike Hannah reported from South Africa on Thursday : |
| 13 | Respondents ' hardware ranged from IBM S/x or AS/400 , 25.5% ; DEC VAX , 15.5% ; IBM mainframe , 13.6% ; Tandem , 11.8% ; Unisys , 10.9% ; NCR , 5.5% ; Sun , 3.6% ; HP , Bull , Olivetti , ICL , Stratus and Wang , 1.8% and others , 2.7% . |
| 14 | The final item ‘ Generations ’ was aptly named as those taking part ranged from Jane Middleton , aged 8 , up the scale to 90–years old Mrs. Constance Marsh , who reckons Medau helps a lot but mainly attributes her longevity to eating plenty of oranges . |
| 15 | The WTA matched the provision of its main competitors while undercutting their prices : holidays ranged from winter sports , world cruises ( three months , 165 guineas by freighter from Marseilles ) , tours of Lapland and biblical sites in Egypt , to courses on political theory at the international college in Elsinore and the Second Workers ' Olympiad held in Vienna in 1931 . |
| 16 | There were a few areas of life where he had not been involved — his interests ranged from Stockport Infirmary to the Territorial Army , Stockport Lads ' Club to the Boy Scouts , the Trustee Savings Bank to the NSPCC . |
| 17 | They ranged from tuck stitch and Fair Isle on the single bed through plain stocking stitch , three colours in a row jacquard and Fair Isle using chenille to soft felted wool . |
| 18 | Her methods of acquisition ranged from chance discoveries and bargain purchases in shops to point-blank admiration of other people 's possessions , which found some owners parting with their treasures as gifts , while others hid their bibelots when it was known that a visit from the Queen was imminent . |
| 19 | Mr Hudd , a former director of Kunick ( whose activities ranged from fruit machines to nursing homes ) , and Mr Irens , former finance director of First Leisure , alighted on shell company Winchmore in March . |
| 20 | ‘ These ranged from lunch clubs to linking into existing networks , to setting up new ones , courses , a proposed conference , newsletter material and , most importantly , a database and exchange . ’ |
| 21 | Secret rendezvous with the president were not long in following in locations that ranged from Beverly Hills , his brother-in-law 's beach house and the presidential jet . |
| 22 | They ranged from Sir Kelvin Spencer , former Chief Scientist at the Ministry of Power , to the environmentalist David Bellamy . |
| 23 | The conference was hosted by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Poland and brought together some 20 people from Switzerland , Sweden , Germany and Poland whose fields of expertise ranged from parish work to professional journalism . |
| 24 | Subjects ranged from site matters to overall company strategy . |
| 25 | Men 's and women 's clothing on parade ranged from denim jeans and skirts to jersey dresses and chambray shirts , produced by top designers such as . |
| 26 | In one class a research team member asked for estimates of his height ( 5′ 7½″ ) ; the estimates ranged from 4′ 3″ to 6′ 5″ . |
| 27 | Guests ranged from John Mortimer and Lady Rachel Billington ( both Labour supporters ) to the Duke of Marlborough ( though peers , like lunatics , are deprived of the vote , there is no need to say which party he supports ) and Mr and Mrs John Profumo . |
| 28 | On an American basis , their credit ratings ranged from triple A to junk . |
| 29 | One year ago , my wife and I packed up our young son , double-locked the door and moved from New York to London . |
| 30 | The Scottish international missed the midweek defeat at Norwich as part of an agreement made between the two clubs when he moved from Carrow Road earlier this month . |