Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] from [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Definitely an acquired taste was a clunky Spanish colonial gilt-metal mounted mother-of-pearl , tortoiseshell , pewter , ebonised and parcel-gilt cabinet made for a viceroy of Peru , and dating from the second half of the seventeenth century . |
| 2 | Happy as a Sandbag , A musical review of the 1940s , which opens tonight , features songs , dances and acts from the Second World War . |
| 3 | I fetch water — an easy job , just grab a kettle , head for the cliffs and fill from the first stream you fall in — and offer it to Tor . |
| 4 | The plaintiff , a four year old child , entered the house through an unsecured door and fell from a second floor window . |
| 5 | Providing the general boundary was the Christian , Pauline , tradition , sustained through the institutionalisation of the Church , and fertilised from the sixteenth century by the Puritan and dissenting traditions . |
| 6 | What emerges is a kind of fundamentalist dynastic priesthood associated with the principle of a Davidic Messiah and extending from the second century B.C. through the period covered by the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles . |
| 7 | From then one we are taken through a Druids ' Grove to consider swords , war trumpets , and the bronze shield cover discovered in the River Witham in Lincolnshire and dates from the second century BC . |
| 8 | This brick building replaces a stone Romanesque cathedral and dates from the thirteenth century onwards ( 565 ) . |
| 9 | This is on a square plan and dates from the ninth century . |
| 10 | The nave arcade , with its capitals and columns , is the most interesting and dates from the eleventh century ( 401 ) . |
| 11 | The building is brick and dates from the fourteenth century , though with later fenestration and entrance doorway . |
| 12 | It is a substantial brick watermill , and dates from the seventeenth century . |
| 13 | The Trondheim episcopal palace adjoins the cathedral and dates from the twelfth century . |
| 14 | The archway itself is in fine condition and dates from the third century B.C. It forms part of the Etruscan walls to the city and is the best extant example of Etruscan masonry . |
| 15 | It is possible that the origin is naval and dates from the 16th Century when ‘ sucking the monkey ’ described the tapping and topping up of a coconut with rum before the milk mix was sucked from it . |
| 16 | We combine these by choosing just a few random points in them , say two or three , and copying from the first string up to the first point ; then copying from the second up to the second point ; then copying from the first again ; and so on , switching between them at each point . |