Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun pl] from [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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1 | The old Minpin climbed out of his window and walked straight down the big steeply sloping branch , then up another branch until he found a place only a few inches from Little Billy 's face . |
2 | Conning a few pounds from Mr Yarrow and walking the streets held little appeal . |
3 | They pinch most of what they say from the student press in America and throw in a few tags from Colonel Ojukwu . |
4 | At the time , he was sharing a house with two friends , writer-to-be Don Devlin and producer-in-waiting Harry Gittes on Fountain Avenue , a few streets from Sunset Boulevard . |
5 | At the same time they might even pick up a few tips from Waqar Younis and Wasim Akram instead of trying to put them down . |
6 | Recently my own son was attacked a few yards from Princes Street . |
7 | There were a few flashes from Joey Beauchamp , but no goals from anyone . |
8 | John Nicholson records the following tale of a site only a few miles from Willy Howe : |
9 | This is the countryside that villagers in three hamlets just a few miles from Milton Keynes fear will be eaten up by concrete . |
10 | Red-faced and embarrassed , Mr Aird cleared his throat and launched into a few bars from Jean Sibelius Finlandia . |
11 | Further south , along the banks of the Yellow River at Lanzhou , there are more communities : also in Yunnan province and in the balmy , almost Mediterranean city of Canton which lies only two and a half hours from Hong Kong on the banks of the Pearl River . |
12 | A dummy scissors from David Thomas deceived the opposition and the full-back came into the line at speed to score near the posts , Howley converting . |
13 | I mean if you 're a builder and you receive sixteen thousand , of , of that there 's a thousand pounds from Joe Bloggs builder whatnot , then the er the tax inspector will make a note , and pass on a little note to Joe Bloggs ' file that , yeah he paid Bill Smith a thousand pounds , and i that then should appear in his accounts , and if it does n't , then he 's a ripe subject for being investigated . |
14 | In 1885 Frederick Cranko ( who , after starting as a sailor , worked as a tailor , an engraver and a clerk ) joined the gold rush to Pretoria and thence to Johannesburg , a thousand miles from Cape Town . |
15 | But Moose have got steadily better as they 've gone along and arrived at a winsome pop style not a million miles from Lloyd Cole . |
16 | They were dismayed when news came that he was as close as Manz , less than a hundred miles from Addis Ababa , harrying the district with a vast army . |