Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a meeting in Ljubljana between Markovic , Kucan and Peterle , the JNA agreed to withdraw from Slovenia on July 1 . |
| 2 | The JNA agreed to withdraw from Slovenia by Oct. 25 , and to hand over military hardware to the Slovenian authorities . |
| 3 | Only a few years after the war the arts became separated from ideology in a way that enabled both artistic practice and theory to gain so-called independence . |
| 4 | But it was only when tourists and journalists began to return from Bucharest in the mid-later 1980s with photographs of the demolitions and stories about their effects on the local people that any organized criticism of the regime got under way in Western Europe . |
| 5 | She did n't seem to be concentrating on the performance because her eyes kept moving from side to side , although she sat very still . |
| 6 | That meant that Macedon had to flirt from time to time with Sparta or whoever looked the strongest counterweight to Athens after Persia had recoiled from the Aegean in the mid-fifth century . |
| 7 | Other teams in the 1993 contest had come from breweries including Whitbread , Fuller 's , Young 's and Courage and the event was held at Park Royal . |
| 8 | John Matthews , chairman of the CIA energy committee , said that a recent CIA investment survey had shown that although investment had dropped from £2000m in 1991 to £1600m–£1800m in 1992 , the amount invested in health , safety and the environment had gone up considerably and the amount invested in energy efficiency had remained level . |
| 9 | His eyes had gone from sapphire to a blue so dark it was almost black . |
| 10 | Behind the closed door the programme had changed from athletics to wrestling and once more the baby had begun to cry . |
| 11 | Erm the Financial Times you showed er I think including the F T Group and Les Echo er in , in the profit analysis , but you did say that their operating profit was up ten percent th the F T Group which I take it to mean they made fourteen point three , leaving I think four point two to Les Echo You did also say that Les Echo had gone from strength to strength but f from my figures I think it 's a third successive decline in their profit . |
| 12 | The Arnhem veteran had come from Salisbury for a memorial service . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The cost of thefts from schools had risen from £60,000 to about £70,000 over the same period , representing a drop in real terms because of inflation . |
| 16 | In the next house , Miss Goulding seemed to toil from morning to night at top speed to ensure that the laundry she worked on was ready for delivery by Fred Cotton . |
| 17 | With the break between the two concentrations , soon to be filled in by Milton Keynes and Northampton 's expansion , a virtually unbroken stretch of metropolitan areas promised to stretch from Sussex to North Lancashire . |
| 18 | Following Roman 's resignation ( or the handing in of his mandate , as he put it ) on Sept. 26 , and conciliation discussions between Iliescu and miners ' leader Miron Cosma , the miners began to withdraw from Bucharest on Sept. 27 . |
| 19 | The same cat enjoyed jumping from chair to chair when his owner pointed at each in turn . |
| 20 | It was reported that trade between the two countries had increased from $770,000 in 1988 to $7,740,000 in the first quarter of 1989 . |
| 21 | This explained why the sounds of battle had come from east of this dell . |
| 22 | Bedpans had gone from earthenware to papier-mâché , bottles had progressed from glass to plastic , but there was the same kindly welcome , much the same decor except that the photo of George VI had been replaced by a poster on the etiquette of urinating . |
| 23 | By early February it was clear that the skilled engineers had retreated from demands for peace negotiations into a narrowly sectional defence of their exemption from conscription . |
| 24 | The girl had suffered from tuberculosis of the lungs , but it was agreed that although that would ‘ probably at no very distant period have terminated fatally ’ the immediate cause of death was in the stomach . |
| 25 | On this day : the Gregorian calendar was adopted in Italy and Spain and today became 15 October 1582 ; Spain declared war on Britain , 1796 ; Italian troops occupied Tripoli , 1911 ; the first air battle took place between German and French aircraft , 1914 ; the Allies landed at Salonika , 1915 ; Sir Arthur Lee presented the estate of Chequers as an official country residence for the Prime Minister , 1917 ; the Locarno Conference met and the great powers guaranteed frontiers and agreed to put disputes to arbitration , 1925 ; unemployed shipyard workers started to march from Jarrow to London , 1936 ; the Cominform ( Communist Information Bureau ) was set up to aid European Communist parties , 1947 ; tea rationing ended in Britain , 1952 . |
| 26 | If in no other sense than economic , the world 's focus had switched from East to West , from Greenwich to the Date Line , from Atlantic to Pacific . |
| 27 | Moniba had fled from Liberia in September 1990 , after three months in hiding following attempts by him and others to persuade Doe to step down . |
| 28 | The identity of the price leader had changed from time to time with no obvious pattern . |
| 29 | Someone , I thought with illumination , who knew how easily Olympia had died from hands round the neck . |
| 30 | Piphros ' head began to move from side to side , the entire body shaking , and oozing moisture . |