Example sentences of "[adv] from [noun prp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spare a diversion here for the village of Itxassou , two miles upstream from Cambo along the Nive . |
| 2 | In the early eighteenth century the Piggot family decided to modernize their humble and rambling seventeenth-century manor and called in the best local builder , perhaps from Stanford in the Vale , a rather grand village displaying much architectural refinement . |
| 3 | Some of the foregoing have survived to the present day — Pyneford ( Pineford ) , Langlay ( Langley ) , North , le Bret ( Bret and Brett ) , whose meanings are obvious , Piket ( Picot , Pykett , Piggott , etc. , from the Old French personal name Pic ) , Bekeford ( Beckford , from the Middle English bekke = brook , and ford ) , de Reyney ( Rainey , etc. , perhaps from Regny in the Loire ) , Keneman ( Kinman , from cyna = cow , and mann , thus a herdsman ) . |
| 4 | This was not how I wished to catch my first sight of the fabled city of Lazarillo de Tormes and of Gil Blas , who in Le Sage 's novel made the journey to Salamanca only from Oviedo in the north . |
| 5 | Four of these companies are quoted separately from CB on the Paris Bourse ( CB received a London listing in 1973 ) : UCB ( 33 per cent owned by CB , in housing and property finance ) , UFB Locabail ( 66.2 per cent , business equipment finance ) , Cetelem ( 67.7 per cent , consumer finance ) , and Cardif ( 56 per cent , life insurance and savings products ) . |
| 6 | He was away from Valencia for a total of nine months and in that time two dramatic events took place . |
| 7 | Arran is the most southerly of the Inner Hebridean islands , 15 miles away from Ardrossan on the Ayrshire coast . |
| 8 | However , there has been some decentralization of office employment since the mid-1960s , with a redistribution away from London to the outer-metropolitan areas . |
| 9 | The coffin furniture industry moved away from London during the early nineteenth century , transferring itself to Birmingham . |
| 10 | Legends such as the tale of the Land of White Water ( belovodie ) drove them onwards away from Europe into the dense forests where serfdom was but a memory until a voevoda 's troops stumbled upon them , making them pay taxes by growing grain for the troops or by carting goods — one of the harshest occupations in this severe land . |
| 11 | The winter of 1963 sees class B1 No. 61367 pulling away from Killamarsh on an up train to Annesley . |
| 12 | In France , a conspiracy of Calvinists and ‘ political ’ Huguenots against the Guises , which ended with the ‘ Tumult of Amboise ’ in mid March with its hideous reprisals , left the Guises victorious , but it deflected their attention away from Scotland at a critical moment . |
| 13 | Mozart 's father , Leopold — himself a musician — recognised that his son was an infant prodigy and took him away from Salzburg on a concert tour of Western Europe which lasted well over three years . |
| 14 | Units more than 12″ away from Azhag at the start of your turn are affected exactly as normal . |
| 15 | All of the courage , the new-found confidence which Dr Neil had given her , with his love , drained away from Sally-Anne at the sight of Dr Neil 's face when Havvie told him who she was . |
| 16 | So he had moved away from Jewtown to a considerably larger and more imposing semi-detached house in Blackrock — a suburb which , though no more than a mile beyond Celtic Crescent , was undeniably middle-class and rising . |
| 17 | Ashenden doubted it , his doubt redoubling as the coach drew further and further away from Oxford along the A34 . |
| 18 | ‘ Could … do you think you could stay away from Taipei for a while , Luke ? ’ |
| 19 | Italy is only a short distance away from Chamonix through the Mont Blanc tunnel . |
| 20 | The result was a new symbol of aristocratic authority , Petworth House , whose very long and quite low facade looked away from Petworth across the tightly packed rural landscape to the Downs . |
| 21 | To give one example , the restrictive policy towards American investment between 1963 and 1966 drained capital away from France into the economies of her European partners/competitors . |
| 22 | After a hard-hitting first round in which both boxers traded body punches , the initiative ebbed away from Hopper in the second as he allowed himself to be drawn into a slugging match instead of using his jab . |
| 23 | But we are 90 minutes away from Wembley with a game to follow on our ground . |
| 24 | Lennie Lawrence , in his first season with the Teessiders , took the club back to the top and to mere minutes away from Wembley in the Rumbelows Cup . |
| 25 | Sometimes there were short races between the Bletchley and Newport workmen 's trains as both were booked away from Wolverton at the same time . |
| 26 | And sometimes — ’ She looked away from Ben towards the corner of the room where a picture was hanging at a slight angle , and her head moved to one side as if to see it better . |
| 27 | His debut had been The Subject Was Roses for MGM in 1968 , the film of the Frank D. Gilroy play which , along with a plum Broadway role , was plucked away from Dustin by a pyrotechnical fondue pot . |
| 28 | So , the runners are under starter 's orders.Between now and polling day attention will shift away from Westminster to the individual seats that the parties have targetted for victory . |
| 29 | get away from Leeds to a place where he can play first team football . |
| 30 | I would hate to feel that we were taking jobs away from Leeds in the sense that er people from Leeds felt compelled to move to Harrogate to do those jobs and I would can not help feeling that elsewhere in Yorkshire , and I 'm thinking particularly of South and West Yorkshire , there are many derelict industrial sites which re need to be recycled before we |