Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] from a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final day of the hearing has included evidence from a Metropolitan Police forensic expert , who admitted ammunition found at the scene of the crime did n't match that found at Marsh 's parents ' home . |
| 2 | The competition attracted pilots from a dozen nations and , by all accounts , had a touch of ‘ Those Magnificent Men … ’ about the proceedings . |
| 3 | Aylesbury Group collected more than £1,300 and raised £200 from a Three Peaks Challenge Event . |
| 4 | They want to turn Sberbank from a dowdy savings bank into a universal bank that can compete with the likes of Germany 's Deutsche Bank . |
| 5 | Two off-duty prison officers who were also in the minibus were beaten up and then released , but three others who escaped claimed that they had been unable to get help from a nearby police and Army checkpoint . |
| 6 | A writer called Thomas Carlyle described it in 1824 as ‘ A frightful scene … a dense cloud of pestilential smoke hangs over it forever … and at night the whole region becomes like a volcano spitting fire from a thousand tubes of brick . ’ |
| 7 | Brent Chemicals is raising £15.6m from a one-for-four rights issue and is using the money to buy a 75.1 per cent share in the German metals finishing chemical supplier , Hebro , for £10.2m . |