Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] from an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four years ago I bought an old Harmony Sovereign acoustic guitar for £20 from an absolute prat . |
| 2 | Thieves stole a Black and Decker hammer drill and drill parts , 20 spanners in a black leather case and a 36-piece socket set in a metal case worth £130 from an outhouse in Coleridge Gardens , Darlington . |
| 3 | His weakness for girls from an escort agency run by an old friend of Jack 's had cost him dear over the years . |
| 4 | Elves are taught the arts of war from an early age and swiftly master the sword , the bow and the spear . |
| 5 | Two centuries of silver from an outstanding Oxfordshire family firm . |
| 6 | Evaluations of Soviet society inevitably focus on whether a ruling group that does not own , but controls , property , receiving a salary rather than extracting surplus for its own use , can legitimately be called a ruling class in a Marxist sense in which class depends on the ownership of the means of production and the extraction of surplus from an exploited class . |
| 7 | Cash warning : Police warned people not to keep large amounts of cash in their homes after the theft of £740 from an 84-year-old man kicked by burglars at his Bromborough Road , Bebington , home . |
| 8 | NOTE under the OT policy the exclusion wording on MONEY has not been relaxed and still refers to ‘ loss of money from an unattended vehicle unless secured in its locked boot ’ . |
| 9 | The study of metalwork from an archaeological site , whether a burial site like Sutton Hoo or a major settlement like York , which has a whole range of artefacts and materials , provides an opportunity to build a picture of the place of technology and metals in the context of the economic prosperity and social hierarchy of the society . |
| 10 | About 30% of the plays are adaptations of classics from an A-level English syllabus , like Dickens , Hardy and Dylan Thomas . |
| 11 | There was desperation in Lou 's eyes and she clutched at Melissa 's arm while words poured from her mouth like water from an overflowing vessel . |
| 12 | ‘ At Kelso … ’ the fellow slurred , then suddenly he went rigid , chest out , face forward , and I watched fascinated as the blood gurgled out of his mouth like water from an overflowing sewer : his eyes rolled in their sockets , his tongue came out as if he wished to talk , then he collapsed , choking on his own blood , on to the shit-strewn cobbles . |
| 13 | The great splayed fairings of their target 's legs were painted with ochre volcanos spraying hot scarlet lava like blood from an artery . |
| 14 | The mayor of Atlantic City , James L. Usry , 67 , with three council members and nine other people were arrested on July 27 on bribery and misconduct charges including accepting $6,000 in cash from an undercover informer to license boardwalk carts in summer . |
| 15 | Earlier this year , I set my cassette recorder to tape Bach 's Magnificat in D from an original recording . |
| 16 | The department use outside advisors to help with ethnic menus for conferences from special Afro-Caribbean dishes for the Black Housing Association to recipes from an old lady in Keswich for the Vegetarian Society of Great Britain 's annual conference . |
| 17 | It will , however , require from some teachers a change of emphasis from an overly-didactic and instructional style of teaching to one of more direct interaction with pupils in the exercise of their educational tasks . |
| 18 | Brooktree Corp , San Diego and Advanced Micro Devices Inc have settled all pending litigation and agreed not to sue each other on patents related to colour palette chips : the settlement provides for payment to Brooktree of $26.8m from an earlier award of cash damages for patent and mask work infringement and dismissal of all other litigation pending between them . |
| 19 | He revealed : ‘ I 'm suffering a bit of discomfort from an Achilles tendon and , ideally , should be resting . |
| 20 | Capriati showed a little bit of rust from an eight-week lay-off , but her big first serve consistently registered 100mph and she said : ‘ I felt a lot better in the second set , I got into it a lot more . ’ |
| 21 | I find it a little difficult to take that kind of question from an hon. Gentleman who said that we ought to eat New Zealand apples and refuse to eat British sausages . |
| 22 | I was hooked , I knew my singing was n't good enough to evoke that kind of reaction from an audience . |
| 23 | The conventional wisdom is that the biggest effects are produced after the veil of material from an eruption ( called a ‘ dust veil ’ , although suspended droplets of liquids such as sulphuric acid may be just important as solid particles ) has spread around the hemisphere and is blocking the Sun 's radiation more or less uniformly . |
| 24 | This is partly because the council has limited means of enforcing its recommendations , short of the draconian removal of recognition from an entire course . |
| 25 | Indeed , we would go on paying indefinitely if low wages and the presence of children from an earlier partnership would otherwise have driven the family 's income below the supplementary benefit level . |
| 26 | Cleveland Coroner Michael Sheffield yesterday recorded a verdict of death from an industrial disease at an inquest on former foundry worker Edward Bird , 76 , of Auckland Street , Guisborough , who died of silicosis . |
| 27 | A manifesto for fashion from an idea by Lenin : Helen Womack on the stylish clothes being inspired by communism 's icons |
| 28 | The answer came out pat , like a bar of chocolate from an automatic machine , stale and predictable . |
| 29 | As I have mentioned in previous chapters , at the time of a death complicated practical issues need to be decided : to bury or cremate ; was there a will and if not how do you organize probate ; how do you get hold of money from an account that is not in your name ; how do you register a death . |
| 30 | Many reasons have been given for its demise : the potential high cost of registry operations ' insurance , especially since the participants ' liability had not been established ; the unwillingness of commodity traders to record their transactions in a central registry subject to inspection by competitors and tax authorities ; the reticence by the ultimate buyers of spot crude oil to acquire bills of lading from an entity designed to service intermediaries and speculators ; and the banks ' discomfort with the exclusive control of the registry business by one of their competitors . |