Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] from the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least fourteen more Palestinians were killed in subsequent clashes with the security forces and eight hundred were wounded ; the clashes spilled over from the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip to Arab areas of Israel . |
| 2 | David Collins takes over from the injured Mike Ford … and Dave Penney is back in the side … |
| 3 | David Collins takes over from the injured Mike Ford … and Dave Penney is back in the side … |
| 4 | And in recent weeks it 's become a daily chore , as more and more birds have been brought in from the nearby Gloucester Sharpness canal . |
| 5 | Students of our naval past may treasure those small books bound in wood salvaged from the Mary Rose , which heeled over and sank off Portsmouth in 1545 ; or brought up from the Royal George which , a tarnished monument to the neglect of the Admiralty , went down at Spithead in 1772 with nearly a thousand souls . |
| 6 | Maybe this is all that is needed to re-ignite calls for a review of the welfare benefits which single parents receive — a review actually under way earlier this year , but thankfully kicked into touch by Tony Newton when he took over from the hapless John Moore as Social Security Secretary last Summer . |
| 7 | For the astonishing fact is that Malcolm Allison , soccer 's oldest boss at 65 , has revitalised a Bristol Rovers side that had won only two of 16 games before he took over from the sacked Dennis Rofe a month ago . |
| 8 | The coalition took over from the Vietnam-backed Hun Sen government which rescued Kampuchea after the demise of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge in 1979 . |
| 9 | Schofield was an inspirational leader in this summer 's Ashes tour when he took over from the injured Hanley and he played the game of his life in the second Test win in Melbourne . |
| 10 | The win maintained stand-in captain Mark Taylor 's unbeaten record in charge of Australia , who have won three and tied one since he took over from the injured Allan Border . |
| 11 | Middlesbrough substitute Jon Gittens took over from the injured Jamie Pollock with 12 minutes to go . |
| 12 | President Bush took over from the 78-year-old Ronald Reagan at the age of 64 but within 11 days the rigours of office had taken their toll . |
| 13 | The actual implementation process which enabled the Bank to successfully cut over from the Old IBM 3090–600J to the new machine was recalled by Alan Knight , Manager , Capacity and Performance , Services Delivery , Technology . |
| 14 | There was a certain irony in the fact that one of the first things Baldwin told the King , on taking over from the decrepit MacDonald , was that he himself needed two months ' rest . |
| 15 | He became a member of the emasculated politburo when the invasion took place taking over from the wretched Mr Dubcek in April 1969 after branding him and his team ‘ extremists and rightwing forces . ’ |
| 16 | Blew over from the distant Thames . |
| 17 | At about the same time , two species of day frog , Taduactylus diurnus and T. eungellensis , died out from the same Queensland habitat . |
| 18 | The philosophy of the new SZ series follows on from the successful SZH research stereo providing interchangeability and versatility — indeed the SZ heads can be used with the SZH stand for superior transmitted light . |
| 19 | Saints will be fired up under new boss John McClelland , who has taken over from the sacked Alex Totten . |
| 20 | Following on from the informal Malta summit in December 1989 [ see p. 37110 ] , the meetings were hailed as a new beginning in US-Soviet relations , despite acknowledged continuing differences on a number of key bilateral and international issues . |
| 21 | ( At Hellesdon the Way carries on from the five-mile Norwich Riverside Walk ) . |