Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [noun] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After his marriage he lived in Hanworth , Middlesex , but the tragic accidental death of his daughter Elizabeth from eating a piece of bread baited with rat-poison may have impelled his move from Hanworth after 1605 . |
| 2 | The most extraordinary of the group was bought by the V & A in 1986 ( after the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art had halted its departure from Britain to a collection in North America ) . |
| 3 | In the remoter corners of water authority empires , which have had little more than a decade in which to professionalize themselves since their formation in 1974 , gangs of river maintenance staff inherited from the far less environmentally accountable river boards have guarded their independence from interference by senior central management within their own organizations . |
| 4 | The Comoran Union for Progress ( Udizma ) , the former presidential majority party , which had withdrawn its support from Djohar in November [ see p. 38565 ] , was not represented in the new Cabinet . |
| 5 | It was not that I had abandoned the political book : it was that the mounting gravity of current events had turned my interests from theory to practice . |
| 6 | Nolan , the reigning British Open champion , has moved her base from Norfolk to Surrey , where she has ten competition horses in her yard . |
| 7 | Some 300 companies have moved their headquarters from Osaka to Tokyo each year because they want to plug into the capital 's networks . |
| 8 | The Art Dealers Ren Schreuder BV , specialising in Old Master paintings of the Dutch and Flemish Schools , have moved their premises from Aerdenhout near Haarlem to a sumptuous property on the Keizersgracht in the heart of Amsterdam . |
| 9 | Although I had saved his country from attack by Blefuscan warships , he preferred to remember my refusal . |
| 10 | The story of how he acquired her from a petty criminal and gradually transferred his love from man to dog is told in his novel We Think the World of You ( 1960 ) , which won the W. H. Smith award . |
| 11 | Following Franco 's example , Hedilla had transferred his headquarters from Burgos to Salamanca in October , and was thus able to see Franco quite frequently . |
| 12 | Wycliffe had transferred his attention from statements to cheque stubs . |
| 13 | In the first place , there was one wealthy supporter and a long-time admirer of Joyce who had transferred his allegiance from Mosley to the new organisation . |
| 14 | Tommy had made his way from Glasgow to London at a young age , and ended up in Borstal . |
| 15 | In any case , the past could n't be investigated because the military had granted themselves amnesty from prosecution before handing Cerezo the reins of power . |
| 16 | Historically , what has happened is that the rock vanguard has shifted its focus from eroticism to the psychedelic powers of horror . |
| 17 | By the end of the afternoon she had replaced her wardrobe from top to tail , had acquired an evening dress that was out of this world , and had had her hair freshly washed and styled . |
| 18 | The " Dnestr Soviet Republic " had declared its secession from Moldava on Sept. 2 , 1990 [ see p. 37723 ] , and on Sept. 2 , 1991 , its Congress of People 's Deputies adopted a constitution , confirmed as its flag the former flag of the Moldavian SSR ( Moldava having adopted the flag of Romania ) and decided to form its own armed forces . |
| 19 | The USA , however , had increased its purchases from Japan by only 1 per cent , while selling 0.3 per cent more goods to Japan . |
| 20 | ‘ Everybody has a birthday , everybody has a party , so it is quite good business really , ’ he said especially now that he has increased his fee from £5 to £15 for half an hour . |
| 21 | An avid traveller in Mediterranean lands and an early exponent of the use of audio-visual teaching aids ( using lantern slides in a lecture in 1929 ) , he was the only man to have led his bride from Church under an archway of History notebooks suddenly held aloft by two lines of boys from School . |
| 22 | David Hirst , Paul Parker and Martin Keown have put their comebacks from injury to the Premier League test and all appear ready to take up the invitation issued by Taylor after last month 's 1-1 draw against Norway . |
| 23 | With this help , No. 1 Troop had fought their way from building to building up the landward side of the road and were attacking a house when Sergeant Culling was hit in the face and killed by a percussion grenade exploding on impact . |
| 24 | Co-driven once again by Alan Hill , Miles has retained his sponsorship from Davids of Ripon with extra support from Knaresborough Tyre Services and Mintex . |
| 25 | He had not liked his ride from Newmarket in the horse-box but she had watched Bunny whisper and wheedle him into tranquillity . |
| 26 | An independence declaration was made by Moldava ( which had changed its name from Moldavia in June 1990 ) on Aug. 27 , and was recognised formally by Romania , with which diplomatic links were established on Aug. 29 . |
| 27 | Just like Michael Quirke , the butcher turned god-carver , he had totally changed his life from Commerce to Art , in middle age . |
| 28 | I daresay their neighbours changed it to , like Gazza 's neighbours have changed his name from Gasgcoine to Gazza or the newspapers have done it . |
| 29 | Johnstone has confronted his fall from grace with the kind of honest self-awareness that is rare in habitual drinkers . |