Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] from [noun] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The madman has just flown in from Rome on a whim , to spend a few days with me here . |
| 2 | But anyway , talking about engineering as a whole , quite obviously it 's interesting to go back a bit because I 'm always interested in the way the institutions actually started because er there 's a lovely story about er , the Stephenson brothers and tho , ju , having just come down from Scarborough on a mini-holiday we stopped at York and I went over a great big museum there , and quite obviously seeing the marvellous locomotives you realise that George Stevenson had er , a lot to do with that . |
| 3 | They can be raised or lowered as well as moved horizontally from controls on the platform . |
| 4 | In 1911 he returned to railway service as personal assistant to ( Sir ) H. Nigel Gresley [ q.v. ] , who had just taken over from Ivatt on the Great Northern railway . |
| 5 | When the river broadened , the Avignon began to encounter other craft that had started downstream from Saigon on the favourable tide , and Joseph wondered why the battered-looking Chinese junks , with their shabby , patched sails , did n't sink as they lumbered past among a succession of grimy workhorse freighters from Europe and Latin America . |
| 6 | On that occasion their predicament had been spotted and a boat had been sent out from Sharpness on a wild goose chase . |
| 7 | Four of these companies are quoted separately from CB on the Paris Bourse ( CB received a London listing in 1973 ) : UCB ( 33 per cent owned by CB , in housing and property finance ) , UFB Locabail ( 66.2 per cent , business equipment finance ) , Cetelem ( 67.7 per cent , consumer finance ) , and Cardif ( 56 per cent , life insurance and savings products ) . |