Example sentences of "[pron] from [adv] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cave-dwellers of the Dordogne obtained shells from the Mediterranean and those of Mentone had apparently secured some of theirs from as far afield as the Indian Ocean . |
| 2 | But , again , we must beware the limits of anecdotal evidence ; several of Ryder 's examples are from the 1930s and 1940s ( and one from as long ago as 1909 ) and would breach today 's legal standards . |
| 3 | The Sutherland and Ross-shire county boundary runs down the middle of the loch , touching the coast at the outlet of Kirkaig River , and Fionn collects in waters from hundreds of square miles , gathering them from as far away as Loch Borralan , at Atnacealgach , Urigill , Cama , the ‘ crooked loch ’ , and long , windswept Veyatie , below Cul Mor . |
| 4 | Madras , for example , imported them from as far away as Ceylon and Malaya . |
| 5 | Salt-burning at Droitwich was confined to the six months Midsummer — Christmas — to keep up the price , Leland was told , though he himself thought the real motive was to conserve wood , since the exhaustion of supplies nearby obliged the salters to buy it from as far away as Worcester , Bromsgrove , Alvechurch and Alcester . |