Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [vb pp] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Jean Bainbridge has taken over from Coun Heather Scott as president of the Darlington and District Soroptimists . |
| 2 | Such successful companies as Nalco , in the USA , and some of the companies that ICI has bought recently from the Beatrice group , in the speciality field , discovered this secret many years ago . |
| 3 | Stuart Ward has taken over from Bill Davidson who retired at the end of last year . |
| 4 | MOVIE heart-throb Kevin Costner has taken over from Arnold Schwarzenegger as Hollywood 's most powerful actor , according to a survey . |
| 5 | ( Abberley has looked away from her hair . |
| 6 | Meanwhile Linton had got up from his armchair and gone out to join Cathy and Hareton . |
| 7 | Tammuz had turned around from his workstation . |
| 8 | There was only one really bitter outbreak of in-fighting , prompted by a story which Peter Walker had raked up from somewhere that gave an account of Margaret hoarding food during the miners ' strike . |
| 9 | Although in many areas votes were cast for individual candidates rather than the party which fielded them , analysis of the results showed that support for the AP had shifted markedly from urban to rural areas where government development plans and projects had made an impact . |
| 10 | In the bathroom , Donna had segued clumsily from ‘ I could have danced all night ’ to ‘ I 'm getting married in the morning ’ , her attempts at a Cockney accent so ludicrous that normally Alex would have been falling about . |
| 11 | Behind him , Maisie had moved away from the window . |
| 12 | Unlike Eb , Josh had come back from the war in one piece , hale and hearty . |
| 13 | ‘ Love is a local Anguish , ’ he wrote after he and Hucks had travelled on from Wrexham . |
| 14 | Alan Jones and Steve Abel have stepped down from committee due to other work commitments ; their involvement in the work of the TCP over recent years has been much appreciated . |
| 15 | Tim Corser and his wife Linda have moved on from Benidorm and are continuing on their extended journey through Europe . |
| 16 | BEHIND THE IRISH TROUBLES The image of Northern Ireland has suffered greatly from the continual strife there , but the Industrial Development Board is successfully wooing overseas employers . |
| 17 | Add to those characteristics the meticulous almost fussy ways which Anthony has picked up from his father , and you have a close family likeness — yet to Anthony they are almost completely unacknowledged and unrecognised . |
| 18 | Jane has looked up from her papers . |
| 19 | A white woman named Jane has come here from London , drawn by the glamour of the Third World , supposing herself to have arrived where the action is , where the ‘ doers ’ are . |
| 20 | The great Dust Bowl which Maggie has seen only from the air , was once the long flank , the turning of the armpit of a dragon greater than Fenna , the great dragon laid out across the world its tail cooled by the oceans of the Antarctic and its breath , no longer fire , turned to ice around its head in the most northerly places of the globe . |
| 21 | It seems Spain has taken over from Italy as chief innovator on the modern scene : ‘ The 1990s will see Spain firmly positioned at the top of the international market , ’ declares Robert Smith . |
| 22 | After Wandsworth Nicholson had moved around from prison to prison , serving his time as surely as any of the inmates in those institutions . |
| 23 | When the local doctor , confounded by the sparrow size of his patients , informed the couple that they were to become parents , llya Holovich had dropped her lined and weary face to her chest and wept , and Stepan Holovich had jumped up from his chair and then scratched between his thin grey hair and laughed . |
| 24 | Everyone knew the story of how old man Reynolds had come up from nothing to be a landowner . |
| 25 | Ray had come in from the country bank and we sat with Margaret through the short service . |
| 26 | This latter business was undertaken in the most difficult financial circumstances and , even after the newly founded Bank of England had taken over from Herne , it was his credit that kept the artillery train in Flanders from starving late in 1694 . |
| 27 | The Beatles had taken over from the Rolling Stones , but Gabriel , used to pop boiling over all around her , did not notice . |
| 28 | It was Bolder again before half time , making a tremendous save to deny a Simpson shot and then three minutes before half time , his best save of the game ; somehow he kicked kneed Nogan 's shot away from five yards after more good work by United down the left side . |
| 29 | Land Rover has benefited similarly from Rover 's clear-sighted policies . |
| 30 | Thailand has suffered acutely from hunting and deforestation. 40 out of 282 species of mammals are now classified as rare or endangered . |