Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [noun sg] 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| 4 | The Comoran Union for Progress ( Udizma ) , the former presidential majority party , which had withdrawn its support from Djohar in November [ see p. 38565 ] , was not represented in the new Cabinet .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 | Nolan , the reigning British Open champion , has moved her base from Norfolk to Surrey , where she has ten competition horses in her yard . |
| 6 | Although I had saved his country from attack by Blefuscan warships , he preferred to remember my refusal . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Wycliffe had transferred his attention from statements to cheque stubs . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Tommy had made his way from Glasgow to London at a young age , and ended up in Borstal . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Historically , what has happened is that the rock vanguard has shifted its focus from eroticism to the psychedelic powers of horror . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He had not liked his ride from Newmarket in the horse-box but she had watched Bunny whisper and wheedle him into tranquillity . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Just like Michael Quirke , the butcher turned god-carver , he had totally changed his life from Commerce to Art , in middle age . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Johnstone has confronted his fall from grace with the kind of honest self-awareness that is rare in habitual drinkers . |