Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [vb past] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry of Colden returned from the Crusade to help Philip , and Richard I , Otto 's main supporter , died on 6 April 1199 . |
| 2 | The discovery , in 1945 by Brotzu in Sardinia , of antibiotic activity in a species of Cephalosporium recovered from the sea near a sewage outfall was brought to Florey 's attention by a former British public health officer and led to work at Oxford and elsewhere on this and similar organisms . |
| 3 | Even the royal family changed its name to Windsor and Prince Louis of Battenberg resigned from the Admiralty as a result of this climate of thought . |
| 4 | It was during the reign of Dieter that the city of Marienburg ceded from the Empire in return for a huge donation to the Imperial coffers . |
| 5 | The late Earl of Iveagh and Lord Macfarlane of Bearsden retired from the Board on 27 May 1992 , and Sir Anthony Tennant on 31 December 1992 . |
| 6 | Thus although the political initiative for the start of NEP came from the top , the economic life-blood at first began to flow from the bottom upwards . |
| 7 | I have always thought that the sweetening of the waters of Marah resulted from the removal of the iron by the coagulation and flocculation of iron/tannin complexes , the tannin being derived from that tree — though I think that he [ Moses ] would have had to have bashed it up a bit first . |
| 8 | The makers of Lamisil warned from the start that the drug could cause liver and kidney problems in elderley people . |
| 9 | That is just so shit but a lot of that is to do with the fa is A the whole of Aston disaffiliated from the Guild , from the N U S ? |
| 10 | The Duke of Edinburgh retired from the Presidency of the CNAA in January 1976 , to be succeeded by the Prince of Wales . |
| 11 | Also in 1923 , the Urban District Council of Chiswick purchased from the Duke of Devonshire , one hundred and thirty acres of riverside meadowland , for public use and it was adapted with embankment , tree lined promenade , shelters and a bandstand . |
| 12 | Those misdemeanours mean Liverpool will start their next European game with Souness banned from the touchline and dressing-room area and Stewart , Burrows and Marsh still under suspension . |
| 13 | The difference with Burton came from the scale on which he did it , the talents he gambled , the colossal winnings , the rupturing losses , the public glare in which increasingly it took place and the undeniable fact that in the middle of this maelstrom was always a quiet , reading man whom Cis would have recognised with relief as the boy sitting beside the fire , buried in a book . |
| 14 | Bouterse 's disagreements with Shankar stemmed from the government 's attempt to negotiate a peaceful end to the armed revolt of the Surinamese Liberation Army ( SLA ) , led by Bouterse 's former bodyguard Ronnie Brunswijk [ see pp. 37493-94 ] . |
| 15 | And although the Vatican was eager for peace with the new regime , powerful figures within both clergy and Catholic laity in Spain assumed from the start that conflict was inevitable and an aggressive posture towards the Republic accordingly required . |
| 16 | As the Chaos army regrouped for its final attack , the Kislevites returning from Praag arrived from the north and struck the Chaos force in the back . |
| 17 | The sample from Tornewton came from the cave of that name ( Sutcliffe & Zeuner , 1962 ) , and the owl was roosting in an overhead tree and dropping its pellets in through the top of the cave ( see p. 96 ) . |
| 18 | Arguably , the growth of headhunting in Britain stemmed from the success of the sales and publicity efforts of individual headhunters themselves , operating in newly responsive market conditions where a need for change had already been recognised . |
| 19 | Old Mr. Bryant sold produce raised on three allotments in Bugmore rented from the City Council . |
| 20 | The pupils from Sutton gained from the experience of mixing with a wider range of pupils than they normally encounter . |
| 21 | The British in India had from the beginning of the nineteenth century seen clearly that so unnatural a phenomenon as the government of that teeming subcontinent by the parliamentary electorate of the British Isles could not be destined to be permanent . |
| 22 | KGB troops loyal to Nabiyev fired from the building at the demonstrators , causing up to 20 deaths . |
| 23 | The green speckled Spartan basalt used at Knossos came from the south Peloponnese ; a store-room in the East Wing of the Knossos Labyrinth held a supply of Spartan basalt blocks at the time of the temple 's abandonment in 1380 BC . |
| 24 | Most of the stipend at Durham came from the canonry . |
| 25 | as by Terracina rose from the sea Zephyr behind her |