Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [verb] [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wednesday morning , 16 April 1746 , rained , it was chilly , and the citizens of Inverness came out from the town to view this spectator sport . |
| 2 | In his concern to endow his sons adequately , Edward behaved in much the same way as other members of landowning society , and although he exploited the marriage market for the benefit of his own family he did not monopolize it : both the Earl of Arundel and the Earl of March gained substantially from the king 's bestowal upon them of wealthy heiresses . |
| 3 | It is a geological fault , the result of a convulsion of nature in ages past when the north and north-west of Scotland moved away from the rest of the country , leaving a clear divide , straight as an arrow and sliced as though by a giant cleaver , across the breadth of Scotland from the Atlantic to the North Sea . |
| 4 | ‘ A thousand acres of good farmland was taken , thirty families evacuated leaving the nine families in Sesslagh and fifteen families of Farnsagh lopped off from the rest of the world . |
| 5 | By nine o'clock , the Double Eagle and the Crowned Lion of Hesse flew alongside from the roof of the little village hall . |
| 6 | The Emperor of Trame leant forward from the opposite side of the table . |
| 7 | On one occasion they were comparing engagements in their respective diaries when two photographs of Camilla fell out from the pages of Charles 's diary . |
| 8 | He did n't smile as the Shermans approached but waited with his left hand resting on the hilt of his ceremonial sword , his aloof expression suggesting that he estimated the dignity of his person to be at least equal to that of the fabled hero of France looking down from the wall behind him . |
| 9 | Prost , starting from a record seventh successive pole position at the start of a season , was beaten off the grid by Hill in a startling getaway which also saw the two Ferraris of Berger and Jean Alesi of France surge through from the third row to take third and fourth places . |
| 10 | But there 's no question of Laing fading completely from the corporate scene . |
| 11 | So far , we have traced the migration and survival of Nazarean thought north-eastwards from the Holy Land , to Syria , Asia Minor , Turkey , Persia , parts of southern Russia and of the Indian subcontinent — the regions which tradition , and Dr Koester , believe to have been evangelised by Judas Thomas , Jesus 's twin brother . |
| 12 | On June 11 the first truck convoy since the fall of Mengistu set out from the port of Assab towards Addis Ababa carrying fuel and food . |
| 13 | With mixed feelings ( on my part , anyway ) , we watched the lights of Stornoway recede astern from the deck of the old MacBrayne 's ferry Lock Seaforth . |
| 14 | The insecticidal activity of most strains of Bt arises mainly from the proteinaceous δ-endotoxins , which are produced in such large amounts within the cell when it forms spores that they produce a characteristic crystal ( Fig. 3 ) . |
| 15 | Connected with the markets of Spain , Europe , and , later , America , where Catalan agents gauged the rates of profit and sold the cargoes of Catalan ships , the merchants and shippers of Barcelona suffered directly from the crises of bad trade and war . ’ |