Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] from [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Matches were played against local hearing teams , and after a promising start , the club almost folded in 1879 following a disastrous season but was re-organised , and has since gone from strength to strength , with various changes in name . |
| 2 | On Paul 's first day he arranged four appointments for our consultants with prospective clients , and has since gone from strength to strength . |
| 3 | Well I also was er , er , a producer then in the B B C and so he and I had some cheerful encounters at that time , since when he has obviously gone from strength to strength . |
| 4 | Not only is the extent of deforestation variable but the reasons why it is occurring also vary from region to region . |
| 5 | It has also benefited from protection by the Mexican government of its calving and winter grounds in Baja California . |
| 6 | He was the man who knew all the best positions and though he has now retired from football to run golfing weekends at places like the Meon Valley Hotel Golf and Country Club near Winchester , he assures you that once you 've scored five times a night you never forget it . |
| 7 | As a result of this rule , and many carefully orchestrated publicity campaigns , the motor industry 's image has now changed from polluter to pal of the earth . |
| 8 | And the finger 's stood there and she 's had to stand there shaking from head to foot |
| 9 | Cranston asked directions from a one-eyed beggarman and came back beaming from ear to ear . |
| 10 | Hanoverian Whiggery also became more divorced from association with the cause of Dissent . |
| 11 | It is hoped to issue further sets from time to time . |
| 12 | In theory , the scheme is meant to help pupils who would otherwise be unable to do so to benefit from education at an independent school , but Janet Finch argues that past experience of the direct grant system ‘ would lead one to suppose that many beneficiaries of such a scheme will be middle-class children ’ .24 In 1986–7 about 24,500 pupils attended independent schools under the Assisted Places Scheme in England alone , and this transferred £43 million of taxpayers ' money to independent schools . |
| 13 | Groups of different markets ( as well as different firms in the same market ) are sufficiently interrelated also to benefit from location in London ( for example futures markets to cover eurobond exposure , or the different currency sectors of the eurobond market ) . |
| 14 | George 's wits began to return and he realised that he would have soon passed from sleep to death , if Elizabeth had not found him . |
| 15 | Then said he , I am Saint Lazarus , and know that I was the leper to whom thou didst so much good and so great honour for the love of God ; and because thou didst this for his sake hath God now granted thee a great gift ; for whensoever that breath which thou hast felt shall come upon thee whatever thing thou desires to do , and shalt then begin , that shalt thou accomplish to thy heart 's desire , whether it be in battle or aught else , so thy honour shall go on increasing from day to day ; and thou shalt be feared both by Moors and Christians , and thy enemies shall never prevail against thee , and thou shalt die an honourable death in thine own house , and in thy renown , for God hath blessed thee ; — therefore go thou on , and evermore persevere in doing good ; and with that he disappeared . |
| 16 | Speed also faded from view in the second half , as did Macallister . |
| 17 | The Kenway depot , the court was told , had been a ‘ happy place ’ where a few employees had gone about beaming from ear to ear , high on drugs , and where they ‘ did a better dance than the Kwik-Fit fitters ’ . |
| 18 | Suppose we use it to decide how to travel from home to somewhere . |
| 19 | Investigative journalism usually implies intensive and detailed study revealing the ‘ dark under-belly ’ of a subject already in the public domain or dragging a subject which has remained conveniently hidden from view into the public domain . |
| 20 | The boys ' attention did not spring from concern for Alec but concern for themselves if Alec was cut and needed to see the nurse . |
| 21 | M. and Mme Guérigny did not return from market until just before one o'clock . |
| 22 | This is particularly so when the nationals and corporate bodies of the member states do not benefit from reciprocity in relation to a takeover of a body corporate situated in these third countries . |
| 23 | If there is any general view in any quarter that the interest on special damages is in any event to be calculated at half-rate , when the losses do not continue from accident to trial , then I think that this is wrong and should not hereafter be followed . |
| 24 | This has two purposes , firstly to illustrate the above assertion about the pervasiveness of layering and secondly to act as a reminder that there are important double diffusive flows that do not arise from instability of vertical gradients . |
| 25 | IT is high time that we stopped this charade of swearing allegiance to the Queen and her heirs and successors because we do not know from time to time who they are . |
| 26 | Do not read from beginning to end but use the books as reference texts . |
| 27 | It 's one of the things that do n't change from childhood to adulthood — but worst of all for De Gaulle , his companions were , unlike him , real journalists . |
| 28 | But you do n't drive from village to village |
| 29 | And I 'm saying to Mrs Jones , yeah I 'll do whatever , y'know , I used to have some good contacts with Estate Agents and that and they would just ring me up and say will you come and do so and so and we want it done within six or seven days , y'know , a house that they were selling , that they 'd want completely doing from top to bottom inside and out . |
| 30 | And Mogg believes that the difficulty of ordering tea in the Waldorf Hotel these days is symptomatic of the decline of an empire , a feeling I 'm sure we 've all experienced from time to time . |