Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] from [noun prp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finance director Keith Todd announced that ICL has gained one point of market share in the UK , in a declining overall market — stealing back a little of the market share that IBM UK has won from ICL over the past 20 years . |
| 2 | Messiahs appeared , as we all know , under the procuratorships of Cuspius Fadus and Antonius Felix , and Josephus decried them as men who deceived and deluded the people by their pretence of having received from God in the wilderness the signs of liberty ( Jos . |
| 3 | Having marched from Inverness along the side of Loch Ness he waited for a day in the hope that more pack-horses would turn up , but when none were forthcoming left behind most of his supplies and provisions , though his men were still heavily burdened as they crossed the mountains in search of the enemy ; roads in the Highlands , and local sources of supply , were almost non-existent . |
| 4 | It has a charming , white stuccoed wiggly gable , two windows wide , that might have come from Amsterdam with the King 's guns . |
| 5 | She felt that all compassion must have passed from Emilia with the emptying of her womb except for this last residue that smouldered in the promise she exacted now . |
| 6 | I swear he must have ridden from Gloucester at the gallop to arrive before you . |
| 7 | Having returned from Rome at the end of 468 , he was suddenly consecrated bishop of Clermont in 470 . |
| 8 | Moses and Aaron are shown to have descended from Jacob through the line of Levi . |
| 9 | The Seville Junta behaved with criminal selfishness and , but for the moderation of its general , it might have declared war on Granada ; it refused to send the Andalusian Army to the critical Ebro front where the French , after Joseph had withdrawn from Madrid in the panic caused by the defeat of French corps by the patriots of Bailén , were massing for a reinvasion of Spain . |
| 10 | The two women had travelled from Durban to the holiday resort at Sordwana near South Africa 's border with Mozambique on Friday . |
| 11 | We 've heard from Michael about the access problems on this corridor , erm he 's produced figures that show that this particular route is over design capacity . |
| 12 | The last proposal for change had come from France on the grounds of weather being better later in the season but it was decided then to leave fixtures in their present slots from January-March . |
| 13 | For she had actually been engaged in the very pleasant task of deciding which room in her new house at Far Flatley might best be converted into a nursery when a messenger had come from Frizingley with the awful news . |
| 14 | Only five of the men who had sailed from Bristol with the Hispaniola returned with her . |
| 15 | Upon their marriage they had moved from Allerthorpe to the market town and in 1881 were living and working in the Market Place , next door to Henry King the ratcatcher and close to two other saddlers . |
| 16 | In autumn 1955 the decision was taken to withdraw Soviet troops from the military and naval base at Porkkala which the Soviet Union had leased from Finland under the terms of the 1947 Finnish-Soviet Peace Treaty . |
| 17 | Next we 've got from RADA to the start of Pemberley ; that goes up to there . ’ |
| 18 | Gwenellen was at tea , and reading a letter she had had from Aline by the second post . |
| 19 | We had arrived from Harehills on the up and up with the booming coal industry . |
| 20 | On the eve of Shevardnadze 's arrival , Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu had addressed a protest rally by supporters of his Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) demanding the return of the Northern Territories , a group of islands off the north-east coast of the Japanese island of Hokkaido which the Soviet Union had seized from Japan at the end of the Second World War ( annually since 1982 the LDP had observed Sept. 3 as a day of protest against the Soviet occupation of the islands ) . |
| 21 | It was one of the things that had disappeared from Renascia towards the end and it gave Fenella an odd , rather out-of-balance feeling to see dawn light again . |
| 22 | A recent correspondence printed in the Regimental Association journal Mars and Minerva alluded to the time in Operation Houndsworth when three aircraft had left from Fairford for the Morvan . |
| 23 | Here they were , a nomadic people they had fled from Egypt from the , from the bondage and tyranny of oppression , and God had provided a land which was flowing with milk and honey , it was theirs ! |
| 24 | He and a friend had fled from Vienna over the border into Czechoslovakia . |
| 25 | Una , his 10-year-old which collected breed honours at the 1991 Royal Welsh Show , is the daughter of a cow which he had imported from France during the build up his herd of 45 breeding cows at Drysgolgoch , Llanfyrnach . |
| 26 | He had returned from Gascony at the end of 1254 , after disastrous and expensive enterprises in France and in Sicily : in the following March commissioners were appointed for the sale of timber in the royal forests ‘ for the relief of the King 's debts ’ , with the assistance of two or three knights and the local Forest officers . |
| 27 | His parents have travelled from Worcester to the hospital in Bristol . |