Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] from [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sorry , Angus , ’ he was saying , ‘ my lad from Ballinluig never turned up , I had to get my father to blow the bellows — ouch ! some of them are still hot — that bag has charred , spread them out to cool , or keep them for tomorrow . |
| 2 | The 1970s saw a return to a nationally more confident mood , with Amis fully established as a novelist and Philip Larkin as a poet , both of them roundly disdainful of foreign fads , and with the new drama of Tom Stoppard openly contemptuous of an intelligentsia once content to borrow its values from sources as alien and unassimilable as Lenin and James Joyce . |
| 3 | Journalist of the Year is Maggie O'Kane of The Guardian for her reporting from Bosnia as well as for dispatches from Dublin . |
| 4 | The US Vice-President , Dan Quayle , visited Panama on Jan. 27-28 , 1990 , and declared that the USA wanted to withdraw its troops from Panama as quickly as possible . |
| 5 | Unlike most of the other research reactors from which Dounreay is hoping to attract business , the Indian reactor bought its fuel from Dounreay initially . |
| 6 | At Pwllheli yesterday , the chairman of the Wales Tourist Board said there was no doubt the town had enormous potential to increase its earnings from tourism quite significantly . |
| 7 | ‘ But Pwllheli has enormous potential to increase its earnings from tourism quite significantly . |
| 8 | In Madeira , to stand behind a little old peasant lady , dressed in black , in the bank cashing her cheques from family worldwide is quite an experience . |
| 9 | At apastron ( A ) , when the stars are furthest apart , where v a is the pulsar velocity and a ( 1 + e ) its distance from O. Similarly at periastron ( P ) Taking the ratio of the last two equations , we obtain . |
| 10 | On Aug. 17 IRNA reported Rafsanjani as having told the Turkish President Turgut Özal during a telephone conversation that " peace with Iraq is a different issue , and we hold to our view that Iraq must evacuate its forces from Kuwait so as to create the necessary conditions for the re-establishment of peace and tranquillity " . |
| 11 | Midwifery staff are asked to give this to the mother sufficiently ahead of her discharge from hospital so that she can ask midwifery or paediatric staff any questions which might occur to her or her partner . |
| 12 | The golden rule is to use a drawing program which builds its image from instructions rather than individual dots . |
| 13 | As we noted , Hanoverian wars had always , in the end , been financed by taxation ; the novelty of the French war years was the attempt to defray the greater part of their cost from present rather than deferred revenues . |
| 14 | In the Pinkas Synagogue you will find the names of 36,000 of their victims from Prague alone . |
| 15 | The Jim Cannon gallery : Neil Everitt 's magnificent pictures show Jim in typically assertive action , in casual mood with manager Steve Coppell , and receiving his award from Terry Long on behalf of the Palace club , after he had passed Terry 's appearance record in the autumn of 1984 . |
| 16 | Social services director Terry Sullivan recently announced his retirement from Gwent less than two years after taking over the job . |
| 17 | Mr Morley is understood to have been depressed since the death of his wife from cancer nearly two years ago . |
| 18 | It only remained for him to make his departure from Bec as acceptable as possible to the monks and to himself , and to face the consequences . |
| 19 | Ranulf had cursed his departure from London away from the young wife of a London mercer . |
| 20 | They teach absolute obedience to the King , who holds his authority from God alone . |
| 21 | Well , he posted the finished text to his publishers from Istanbul about three weeks after he arrived there . |
| 22 | ( The Siege of Troy is available in the same series and is my own favourite of the three , with Helen , Menelaus , Hector and Achilles , and Memnon with the ‘ dark cloud ’ of his warriors from countries so hot that men 's skins are burnt black and nothing is white about them except their teeth . |
| 23 | His practice of hunger-striking when detained has attracted international attention and the displeasure of the authorities , and led to his release from custody earlier this year . |
| 24 | our fish from Cleethorpes now and , we 're ready for going again to get some more . |
| 25 | But if you happen to be a sad coward like me , you can get your kicks from Dambusters instead . |
| 26 | Given the success in getting the Israelis and Palestinians round the table , would it not make more sense for the Government to right that wrong and ensure that , during our presidency from July onwards , we talk directly to the PLO ? |