Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] from the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result was urban chaos but a richness of building styles which redeemed Brighton from the overbearing formality of its more classical contemporaries . |
| 2 | On Oct. 20 the ANC and PAC excluded AZAPO from the convening committee of the conference , but invited it to participate in the meeting . |
| 3 | The Labour leadership is under pressure from its own MPs to vote against the bill on third reading because the Maastricht Treaty exempts Britain from the social chapter . |
| 4 | The amendment seeks to delete the protocol that exempts Britain from the social chapter and , if selected for debate , could muster sufficient support from Tory rebels to blow a hole in the legislation . |
| 5 | It was easy to make fun of , and it was no wonder that Conservative Central Office had a field day , distributing a compilation of green policy statements , including the unrealistic ones on replacing the EC with a ‘ loose federation of ecological countries ’ and disengaging Britain from the international money market . |
| 6 | The FOR SALE notice nailed to Lord Jim 's funnel saddened her and if possible she approached Grace from the other direction . |
| 7 | RUGBY LEAGUE chief executive Maurice Lindsay has defended the International Board 's decision to exclude Wales from the 1995 World Cup . |
| 8 | RUGBY LEAGUE chief executive Maurice Lindsay has defended the International Board 's decision to exclude Wales from the 1995 World Cup . |
| 9 | In time to come , will someone else walk these halls and remember the Wolfqueen who lived here for a time , but who brought the Cruithin out of hiding , and drove Medoc from the Bright Palace ? |
| 10 | In the days when Romanians were still in a mood to tell jokes , they used to ask a rhetorical question : how long would it take for a Soviet expeditionary force to reach Bucharest from the Soviet border ? |
| 11 | And one rustle of the packet wakes Darren from the deepest sleep . |
| 12 | ‘ Where 's the boy ? ’ roared Brown from the front seat . |
| 13 | Because Brutus was such an idealistic character he felt that he would have to take important steps towards saving Rome from the evil grasp of Caesar . |
| 14 | It would have been better , Lissa thought unhappily , if she had avoided Lynx from the very beginning . |
| 15 | this week its the third round of the coca cola cup … our only survivors are Swindon … they 've got Oldham from the Premier League at the County Ground tomorrow night … kick-off is at seven forty five … |
| 16 | Few , if any , experts on the subject today would contest that the Messiah expected in Jesus 's era was a largely political figure , intent on redeeming Israel from the Roman yoke . |
| 17 | Of these , commencing its odyssey some time after Peter 's death , and with the participation of the Academy of Sciences , the most famous was the Second Kamchatka , or ‘ Great Northern ’ expedition , led by the Danish seaman , Vitus Bering , who was to lend his name to the narrow straits separating Siberia from the American continent at the northern extremity of the Pacific Ocean . |
| 18 | He patted the bulkhead affectionately , then gave all his attention to manoeuvring the Angharad out of Lee Haven and into the fast-flowing sound which separated Gullholm from the Welsh coast . |
| 19 | As Eisenman demonstrates , the legitimacy of the high priesthood — of Zadok or of the Zadok — was resuscitated by the Maccabeans , the last dynasty of Judiac kings , who ruled Israel from the second century B.C. until Herodian times and the Roman occupation . |
| 20 | Moving Waddle from the right wing , where he performed so imaginatively against the Italians , in order to accommodate Rocastle , whose form has been patchy all season , is another selection open to doubt . |
| 21 | After sketching the steamboat , as she lay in the bay unlading her cargo , from the bridge over the water that divides Pultneytown from the old town of Wick , I got into one of the boats leaving the pier , and was landed on board the ‘ St. Nicholas , ’ thinking it would be more pleasant to visit Thurso by sailing round the coast than to go by rail . |
| 22 | I just leaked like mad each time I fed Conrad from the other side . |
| 23 | NT is a more powerful alternative to Windows For Workgroups , Brown says , and this market niche gives Microsoft the opportunity to undermine Novell from the low end rather than take it on head-to-head . |
| 24 | Germany 's captain Nikki Pilic , who had barely put the debacle surrounding Germany 's Olympic nominations behind him , came in for criticism for not resting Becker from the second day 's doubles , especially after he had been forced to play himself into the ground to beat Luis Mattar over five sets in exhausting heat on the first day . |
| 25 | He took a shuttle to the asteroid belt , he was the highest ranker there they started the race , to the belt they drove at a deadly pace no-one knows what happened that star date but we always knew poor Wes would have to wait as they pulled Will from the smoking wreck they heard him say in a terrible state bom bom bom bom tell Wesley I love him bom bom bom bom tell Wesley I need him , tell Wesley not to my love for him is never weak . |
| 26 | As they pulled Will from the smoking wreck they heard him say in a terrible state bom bom bom bom tell Wesley I love him bom bom bom bom tell Wesley I need him , tell Wesley not to my love for him is never weak . |
| 27 | For the third time that day he called Kuhlmann from the public box . |
| 28 | Police had to be brought in to protect Laing from the outraged violence of some of his hearers . |
| 29 | ‘ There 'll be no need of a lantern , friends , ’ called Jonadab from the open doorway . |
| 30 | ‘ And , if I do n't , out goes Peter from the ancestral home without a penny in his pocket . ’ |