Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] from [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On three sides of this mound there is a colonnade on a raised platform comprising sixteen evenly spaced square pillars of unhewn stone , each thirty-two feet high , linked together at the top by heavy beams with ropes and chains hanging from them at short intervals . |
| 2 | Even now he had learnt that Pete Foster , the man being investigated for murder and fraud in the Docks , a hard man , was terrified of his old mother and had kept his successful career in crime hidden from her for sixteen years . |
| 3 | Well , Adolph , it certainly was a real pleasure to hear from you after all these years . |
| 4 | Words flowed from him in effervescent abundance , ranging from lengthy essays , autobiographical fragments and provocative tirades to witty or angry letters to magazines or newspapers . |
| 5 | I have given back to the Reich the provinces stolen from us in 1919 . |
| 6 | Rock-climbers make sure they have lots of metal implements swinging from them at all times . |
| 7 | This tells us two things : there is a conception of what amounts to trust wording ; but there is a willingness to depart from it in certain circumstances . |
| 8 | A log jam at Barashevo , as if this forgotten end of the world was a metropolis of movement and then he looked again at the huddle of prisoners separated from him by two lines of uniformed guards . |
| 9 | Our philosophy differs from theirs on this point . |
| 10 | Any debris dislodged from them by hydraulic action sinks to the depths and can not be used by the waves to attack the cliffs . |
| 11 | A variation on the ring topology is the ‘ star ’ topology , where either the file server or a special network ‘ exchange ’ box sits in the middle and cable radiates from it to each workstation . |
| 12 | A star topology is where the file server ( or a special network ‘ exchange ’ box ) sits in the middle and cable radiates from it to each workstation |
| 13 | Therefore rural people have tended to have large surpluses extracted from them through low prices enforced by parastatal marketing boards . |
| 14 | The picture which emerges from this kind of work highlights collective action and collective advantage , but often says little about whether all the individuals involved in this enterprise benefited from it in equal measure . |
| 15 | Those people of prehistory differed from us in one important respect : they did not possess the huge databank of past discoveries which we do . |
| 16 | Erm the northern region audit preceded er the national audit er and has been presented by er Mr and its erm data collection differed from it in that erm all notes were reviewed at three months er by using a standard pro forma independently by two clinical coordinators and so would not be |
| 17 | The Ahaggar massif was apparently one of the chief watersheds , for enormous wadis radiate from it in all directions . |
| 18 | Because the early metronome and the 35 or so tempos of French Baroque works calculated from them by 18th-century French writers have already been well documented and discussed in recent studies , particularly in respect to dance tempos , they will not be discussed further here . |
| 19 | The word came from her with sudden and frightening force and it seemed to Creggan as if it was a burden he would carry always in this place . |
| 20 | But his path differed from theirs in one important respect . |
| 21 | It 's a very distressing erm syndrome for many women and er there 's quite a lot of evidence that it 's hormonally linked and most women suffer from it in one way or another . |
| 22 | For example , they have reanalysed studies of mother-child bonding and maternal deprivation ; have criticized conclusions drawn from them about good mother-child relations ; and have extended investigations of these relations to take into account , not just maternal exclusivity and sensitivity , but children 's relationships with other adults and children , and the physical , psychological and social quality of care . |
| 23 | The physics classroom had a spiral iron staircase leading from it to some region inhabited only by science masters . |