Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] from the [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | there is an opportunity of being able to screen it from the Farnsfield direction . |
| 2 | erm and it was so successful that they asked us again to do one from the United States |
| 3 | Mr Slovo , who learnt about the plan to kill him from the Johannesburg Star , not from the police , attributed the plot to the right 's desperation . |
| 4 | Mr Parkinson also appeared to distance himself from the BR route for the Channel tunnel link through Kent , saying that it was ‘ for Parliament to settle the way forward ’ . |
| 5 | He also appeared to distance himself from the BR route for the Channel tunnel link , saying that when BR brought forward the Bill for its preferred route through Kent , it would be ‘ for Parliament to settle the way forward ’ . |
| 6 | By Christmas 1985 the DoE publicly sought to distance itself from the CEGB video , acknowledging that ‘ the film attempts to minimise the British contribution to acid deposition in Norway when it is much the largest . ’ |
| 7 | It was the belief that France and Germany would not prove ready to join a common market , and that the scheme would collapse , that led Britain to distance itself from the Spaak committee late in the year . |
| 8 | I 'd never driven a van in my life but I managed to drive it from the East End to the West End , which I found a feat , and then I finally drove it up to Cumberland in the snow which was even more of a feat . |
| 9 | He has resisted attempts to remove him from the Maine Road board in the past , but it has become clear that Lee 's intervention provided much greater pressure on him to step aside . |
| 10 | The proper instrument for the purpose not being at hand , a man was sent to get it from the Bedford Infirmary . |
| 11 | After her marriage attempts were made to unseat her from the London School Board because of the alleged illegality of her name . |
| 12 | We used to rent it from the Kipling family before Daddy bought it , but even my great-grandfather William Bayles farmed at Low Birk Hatt . |