Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [adv] from [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The comic has travelled far from schoolboy stories of daring-do to sophisticated art form .
2 Physicists know only too well from studying crystalline materials that an understanding of solid-state physics is borne out of a sure knowledge of atomic structure and this has come traditionally from X-ray crystallography .
3 The prison has suffered regularly from fire incidents with lighted material being thrown from cell windows .
4 Although they have worked together for so many years , there has still been time for individual projects and exhibitions : François-Xavier has moved on from vegetable architecture to monumental fountains and sculptures ; Claude 's ventures include jewellery and bronze furniture for an American garden , stage props for Bob Wilson and breastplates for the angels in Wim Wenders ' film ‘ Wings of Desire ’ .
5 MICHAEL Watson has recovered enough from brain surgery to tell conqueror Chris Eubank : ‘ It was my own fault . ’
6 Mr Bryan Gould is generally rated less European than the Shadow Chancellor , Mr John Smith ; and Mr Gerald Kaufman , the Shadow Foreign Secretary , has swung round from gut anti-Europeanism to a conviction that powerful central institutions are unavoidable — and Britain should play its full part .
7 However , they felt it would be in his best interests to send him there , because of the number of times he has run away from council care .
8 However , they felt it would be in his best interests to send him there , because of the number of times he has run away from council care .
9 ‘ For instance , should a child who has run away from home ring and ask that their parents be contacted , then the counsellors will do that and tell the mum and dad concerned where the child is , ’ she says .
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