Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] from [noun prp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Xorandor explains that he lives on radioactivity , that he has come from Mars in search of food , and that he has been stealing the waste to feed himself . |
| 2 | Shylock describes the persecution he has suffered from Antonio in Act 1 , Scene 3 , lines 102–104 . |
| 3 | He succeeds Anneli Janhonen , who has moved from Helsinki to Geneva to head the Information Department of the Lutheran World Federation . |
| 4 | Since his election Dr. Kumar has had regular battles with Mr Bates , who since his narrow defeat has moved from Gateshead to Marton . |
| 5 | Dorothy Armitage ( Mrs Turk ) has moved from Manchester to Rye because she and her husband are both retired and will now be near their family in Kent . |
| 6 | The Aussie trio is led by newly-signed Steve Regeling who has moved from Exeter with Dave Cheshire , who spent most of last season recovering from a bad wrist injury , and Mark Lemon whose plans to move into the first division have been put on ice . |
| 7 | And Philip Ziegler has moved from HarperCollins to Sinclair-Stevenson and Mandarin , with his book about London during the Second World War ; publication will be in 1995 and the agent is Diana Baring at Curtis Brown . |
| 8 | Many of these have been published as national biographical repertories , but not all are complete ( that for France , for example , had reached the letter D when the first edition of this book appeared and has now , nineteen years later , almost completed G , Italy , in the same time , has got from B to C. Works for reference such as these form the scholarly end of a spectrum of contemporary works which runs at its other extreme into straightforward journalism . |
| 9 | The chain has stretched from Uganda to Grenada and Nicaragua , since the 1970s . |
| 10 | It is a practical objection not one of principle , and I believe that it was the fundamental reason that Lord Reid , for example , considered the general rule to be a good one as he said in the passage my noble and learned friend has cited from Beswick v. Beswick [ 1968 ] A.C. 58 , 74A . |
| 11 | Jeremy Richardson , Edinburgh Academicals ’ 1987 World Cup lock , has joined Glasgow High/Kelvinside , and Richard Hastings has swopped from Currie to West of Scotland . |
| 12 | In a move that had been the subject of rumours for many months , Jeffrey Archer has gone from Hodder to HarperCollins in a two-book deal . |
| 13 | It is , I think , the logical conclusion of the line in Enlightenment thought which has run from Rousseau through Nietzsche and Sartre — the strand of truly anarchic individualist thinking which avoids the vulgar Nozickian ‘ libertarian ’ path of concentrating on the freedom of certain selected institutions such as commercial companies , and genuinely exalts only the freedom of the individual . |
| 14 | This year Bradl has a new two-year contract with HB and he has switched from Michelin to Dunlop tyres . |
| 15 | It is the second time Kemp has switched from Slough to Selhurst Park . |
| 16 | They 'd driven from Oldfield to London with four dark bays . |
| 17 | A West German ship with a cargo of uranium concentrate bound from Antwerp to Genoa disappeared and its cargo later turned up in Israel . |
| 18 | The EC Monitor Mission ( ECMM ) had decided to base itself in the RSK town of Knin , having withdrawn from Sarajevo in May . |
| 19 | I can only imagine that shortly before the excursions a long double headed steam train must have travelled from Shrewsbury to Machynlleth , but I do n't know the times . |
| 20 | His complacency remained unshaken when , on Thursday 17 January 1746 , having advanced from Edinburgh towards Stirling he found that the rebels , far from fleeing , had moved forward to meet him at Falkirk , a small town about ten miles [ 16 km ] to the south-east . |
| 21 | Southey had reached the city shortly before , having walked from Oxford with George Burnett , a Balliol friend who had been persuaded to join the Pantisocrats . |
| 22 | By Ottoman reckoning Molla Fenari would have been twenty in Safar 770 , and it is perhaps possible to suppose that he could have returned from Egypt in time to be appointed at the end of the year . |
| 23 | But whatever else Anselm may have learnt from Hugh of Lyons , he did not learn to accept this extension of papal sovereignty at the expense of the church for which he was himself responsible . |
| 24 | The unemployed fan is believed to have moved from Scotland to Peckham , south London two years ago to be closer to Helena , whose films include Lady Jane and Room With A View . |
| 25 | Mr Farquharson , who is unemployed , is believed to have moved from Scotland to Peckham , south-east London , to be closer to Miss Bonham-Carter . |
| 26 | The row over fibre glass figures adourning buildings seems to have moved from Oxford to Birmingham . |
| 27 | Fiona Reekie , 13 , and her mother Eileen had travelled from Fife to London to see Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat . |
| 28 | In a few minutes , six pages of Russian text had travelled from Riga to Moscow . |
| 29 | Dana had travelled from Berlin to Salamanca on an old motor bike that was to play a large part in our lives both in Spain and in England . |
| 30 | Two other men had travelled from Glasgow in order to be close by when the great event happened . |