Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] from [noun] [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 It has also benefited from protection by the Mexican government of its calving and winter grounds in Baja California .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 He wrote a short book entitled What Happened in Burma , described on the cover as ‘ the frank revelations of a young Burmese revolutionary leader who has recently escaped from Burma to India ’ .
8 Support for the so-called ‘ electroweak theory that links two forces , the electromagnetic force and the weak nuclear force , has recently come from experiments at CERN , the European centre for particle physics .
9 From a three-hour flight , at the outside , when he 'd only flown from London to Helsinki on the last lap ?
10 Hanoverian Whiggery also became more divorced from association with the cause of Dissent .
11 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 .
12 Further to my letter of 19 May I have now heard from colleagues at the University of Waterloo in Canada , who have been instrumental in preparing the tape and are the owners of the copyright of PAT , the accessing software .
13 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 .
14 Some of those which did worse benefited from funds under France 's 1976 peri-infomatics plan .
15 By the end of May some 45,000 civilian refugees were reported to have recently travelled from Sudan to Kenya , including a group of 12,500 boys who were either orphaned or separated from their families .
16 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 .
17 This group had already trekked from Pochala on the Ethiopian border ; some of the boys had been living a transitory existence for four years .
18 The Waste lay on a high part of the forest so that when they reached it the sun , which had already sunk from sight in the valleys , was still poised above the dark low edge of the distant forest .
19 Hospital emergency wards were struggling to cope with the injured as radio announcers read lists of victims and broadcast anguished appeals from those who had not heard from relatives in the area near the explosion .
20 Hospital emergency wards were struggling to cope with the injured as radio announcers read lists of victims and broadcast anguished appeals from those who had not heard from relatives in the area near the explosion .
21 Claire Hughes , 25 , who had just returned from Australia for a family Christmas , was trapped with Robert , 26 , and widowed mum Kitty , 60 .
22 Detectives say Spiro , 46 , had calmly walked from bedroom to bedroom at his rented home near San Diego and killed his family ‘ execution-style ’ .
23 However , in the fifteen to twenty-four age group , many of whom had probably benefited from education since 1975 , the figures were 7.7 and 24.7 per cent respectively .
24 Famlio and the pirates , who had clearly learned from spies about Gharr 's captive , and her escape .
25 Where the Children 's Bureau had now advanced from restraint to diversion as a treatment for masturbation , Isaacs was giving a brief account of Oedipal conflict and advising parents that they were ‘ far more likely to do harm by rushing in to scold or correct than by leaving the child to deal with it himself — in a general atmosphere of calm goodwill ’ , and was citing Dr Ernest Jones in her support .
26 His Jewish mother had narrowly escaped from Romania in the 19305 when the local Iron Guard goon squad began slaughtering Jews with a barbarity which sickened even their Nazi German allies .
27 Nigel had n't heard from Eleanor for several weeks .
28 The Marquis of Rockingham at Wentworth Hall in Yorkshire was successful in producing flowers of Cereus compressus , the beautiful American torch thistle , which James Gordon had triumphantly raised from seed at Mile End ( See opp . ) .
29 He had then fought from Tripoli to Tunis and in July 1943 was shipped with Montgomery 's Eighth Army to Sicily .
30 But his great ambition was to discover the remains of the famous Temple of Artemis ( or Diana ) at Ephesus , south of Smyrna , which had completely disappeared from sight in the middle ages .
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