Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun prp] from the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The main joke , a cheerily philistine one , is to pitch Australia from the margins of Western thought into its centre . |
2 | The main joke , a cheerily philistine one , is to pitch Australia from the margins of Western thought into its centre . |
3 | More importantly , he was not tonsured : Lothar , perhaps moved by the obligations of a godfather , could not bring himself thus to exclude Charles from the ranks of the throneworthy . |
4 | From the façade and sides rise a mass of spires that form a small forest of stone through which to view Milan from the roof of the cathedral . |
5 | Stealing the money , Chubei is able to buy Umegawa from the clutches of a wealthier rival . |
6 | At the Conservative Party conference in October 1988 Mrs Thatcher stated : ‘ We have n't worked all these years to free Britain from the paralysis of socialism only to see it creep in through the back door of central control and bureaucracy from Brussels ’ . |
7 | If you have previously run BBCBASIC(Z80) , you can return to it by using the cursor keys to select BASIC from the list of suspended activities in the index . |
8 | A long time ago , Zacco had sent this man , lord of his Mamelukes , to fetch Nicholas from the monastery to which the Venetians had brought him . |
9 | French successes faltered , however , when the maid of Orleans , failing in her attempt to wrest Paris from the English in 1430 , was captured and burned at the stake in Rouen on 30 May 1431 . |
10 | The King , however , was disinclined to anything other than an exchange of courtesies , once again making it quite clear that any attempt to detach Prussia from the rest of Germany was a fruitless exercise . |
11 | The fines imposed upon the Earl of Lancaster and his followers were remitted , and Lancaster received confirmation of his right to Pontefract , Tutbury and Leicester , which he had not been able to recover after the revolution of 1327 , though he had to lease Pontefract from the queen for £1,000 a year . |
12 | Prince William , who had no intention of allowing Napoleon III to separate Prussia from the rest of the German states , accepted only on condition that all the other German sovereigns attended the meeting . |
13 | Even before August 1991 , this group had tried to remove Gorbachev from the post of general secretary of the Central Committee . |
14 | It has been rumoured for the past year that there are moves afoot to remove Cork from the list of Tarmac championship rounds . |
15 | The scar would be a legacy of the injuries which he had received when attempting to haul Simon from the wreckage of his car . |
16 | ‘ Far from constituting ransom to achieve the freedom of American hostages , ’ North assured Livingstone over the cooling coffee , ‘ the military goods provided Iran were part of a rapprochement process designed to deliver Iran from the clutches of the Soviet Union and to block the Soviet drive to the Persian Gulf . ’ |
17 | Then she vaguely remembered fitzAlan saying something about circling around to approach Winchester from the north in case of pursuit . |
18 | The army which set out to recover Berwick from the Scots in July 1319 was some 14,000 strong , but it ended with a humiliating retreat and flight into England ; undoubtedly the Scottish outflanking movement which penetrated deep into England was the major contributor to this disaster , but acrimony between Lancaster and Edward may have helped bring it about and was certainly magnified by it , so that afterwards the relations of the two men rapidly deteriorated just at the time when Despenser the younger was antagonizing other magnates as well . |
19 | But neither £40 a year nor the financial kindnesses of other friends were enough to rescue Coleridge from the need for hard decisions . |
20 | Police helmets could be seen bobbing above the crowd as a small corps of police officers attempted to force their way through to rescue Clasper from the hands of the mob . |