Example sentences of "from the [noun] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am sure members will be aware speed speedway received financial assistance from the Council a few years ago when they ran into difficulties . |
| 2 | Rincewind stood up as slowly as he dared , and drew from his belt the short sword he had taken from the guard a few hours and a hundred years ago . |
| 3 | It also deducted from the sentence the three years which Bao had spent in detention since 1989 . |
| 4 | From the north the Dark Elves swept through Ulthuan looting , burning and pillaging . |
| 5 | He saved himself from the sack a dozen times . |
| 6 | It was obvious from the way the staring eyes blinked , both Pairs together , that they had not been expecting an answer . |
| 7 | Apart from the architecture the other arts which flourished so prodigiously were those of luxury objects : in the exhibition itself were jewel caskets , lustre ware , marble capitals , window screens , carpets , arms and armour and books . |
| 8 | It is the generally accepted method of succession in our family , but , ’ the corpse sighed , or at least a sigh came from the air a few feet above it , ‘ it soon became obvious that none of my three children is sufficiently powerful to wrest the lordship of the Wyrmberg from the other two . |
| 9 | Etna , on the island of Sicily , has been whooshing and thumping away in one or other of its twin summit craters intermittently for hundreds of years — Milton refers to it as ‘ Thundering Aetna ’ in Paradise Lost — and the lurid spectacle of gouts of lava being ejected from the crater every few minutes makes an odd contrast with the winter sports going on on the smooth , snowy slopes beneath the summit . |
| 10 | A painting by Brueghel the elder was lifted from the Courtauld a few years back . |
| 11 | Work hours were long , 10–12 hours per day , 6½days a week , with a one week break taken away from the islands every four weeks . |
| 12 | The first here were from an assart only cut from the woods a few years back , it was a godsend indeed to them . |
| 13 | Information was collected from the informants every 2 weeks . |
| 14 | The further they got from the rave the more bodies they had to step over . |
| 15 | Once I did this under the eye of a policeman who nabbed me for parking on a yellow line when I emerged from the bank a few minutes later . |
| 16 | Alford , a former councillor , broke away from the party a few years ago , and has stood as an independent Labour candidate in local elections since . |
| 17 | It is tempting , too tempting in fact , to read into this more ideologically restrained account a certain disillusionment with communism and communist party politics which prefigures in some way Nizan 's break from the party a few months later . |
| 18 | And fetching water from the well a hundred yards away . |
| 19 | This meant that Wilson would have to accept from the re-negotiation the same conditions as Heath had accepted , with perhaps a few minor , cosmetic modifications , or else withdraw the United Kingdom out of the EEC . |
| 20 | From the moment the two horses jumped off to work , Kelly knew she was in trouble . |
| 21 | Select from the pack the four kings , queens , aces and jacks . |