Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rent fear splits Jim from wife |
| 2 | At the farm I met Pat from Brigade H.Q He was delivering a message to the C.O. of 6 Commando . |
| 3 | This mis-demeanour did not debar Wright from election as ale-taster at the same court , and constable the following year . |
| 4 | Rachael , she 's coming home Well she was she was discharged Friday from hospital . |
| 5 | The B.C. Electric Co. sponsored a broadcast series of symphony concerts making use of famous conductors who visited Vancouver from time to time . |
| 6 | He had worked on the optical specificity of certain enzymes ( one may remember that problems of optical activity first drew Pasteur from chemical to biological problems ) but was also devoted to music and became the music critic of a Berlin evening paper . |
| 7 | As the tsars slowly transformed Ukraine from ally into colony , later generations of Ukrainians came to agree with their national poet 's assessment of him as ‘ the unwise son ’ . |
| 8 | Marion 's urgent hand on his arm cooled Lachlan from explosive down to merely seething . |
| 9 | THE Conservatives sought last night to force the election debate back on to Mr Kinnock 's fitness to govern and the economy , with a warning that Labour would plunge Britain from recession into a full-blown slump . |
| 10 | Responding to criticism from other political parties in his coalition government , Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti stressed that the two men , Mohammed Issa Abbas and Youssouf Ahmed Saad , had secured release about two years early as part of a general amnesty programme ; it was " fantasy " , he said , to suggest that their freeing only two weeks before the outbreak of hostilities in the Gulf was aimed at protecting Italy from terrorist attacks . |
| 11 | The party 's leadership , however , subsequently sought to limit the congress 's terms of reference , having in January 1990 expelled a leading member , Zita Sebrea , who had advocated changing the party 's name and abandoning democratic centralism and eliminating Marxist-Leninism from party policy . |
| 12 | We visited Edinburgh from time to time and one evening were invited by the Queen to a dance at Holyrood House . |
| 13 | It is also the meeting of the cultured city dweller , who led Odysseus from undergrowth to city palace , with the savage Cyclops who wished to eat the hero in a cave . |
| 14 | John Duncan 's side are likely to lose Stockwell from midfield , with Wark returning , against unchanged visitors . |
| 15 | Just days before British holidaymaker Keith Thompson was shot dead by robbers in Orlando … and last year another family named Hayward from North Oxfordshire were faced by gunmen … on a holiday in Florida … |
| 16 | ‘ To reach Shildon from West Auckland the road has two different numbers , depending on from which direction you approach . |
| 17 | The bungled pit stop dropped Hill from second on Prost 's tail to fourth and , although he recovered to grab a brilliant third place behind the Frenchman , it was difficult for him to hide his disappointment . |
| 18 | Although war prevented Bomberg from painting , he did receive an important commission in 1917 from the Canadian War Memorials Fund . |
| 19 | You know when you go to erm collect Christopher from school ? |
| 20 | In the 36th minute only the alertness of Lukic had prevented McCoist from scoring . |
| 21 | David established that erm in Isaiah , two twenty two , it says Seize Eve from man , and this is one of the prophecies that that David showed us that er shows the man , or the women , that they have to leave their wife or If it 's the woman , she has to leave her husband and her and her boyfriend and become his wife . |
| 22 | Darren started going to a special school , but in ‘ 84 my drinking did start getting out of hand and I was pushing Darren from pillar to post . |
| 23 | This was a sardonic reference to the distance which has sometimes separated Levein from selection by the national coach , though the idea of McQueen , last capped against Wales in 1981 , being recalled has turned out not to be so fanciful after all in the midst of the worst injury crisis of Roxburgh 's association with Scotland . |
| 24 | The clash they made on the stones below jarred Harry from head to heels , and for a moment shook the intensity of his concentration . |
| 25 | Last season 's North East regional champions Puma Sunderland toppled Ilkley from pole position in Area 1 by virtue of a resounding maximum point home win over Barnard Castle School . |
| 26 | He had seen Hugo from time to time in the intervening years ; he knew from Hugo 's cousin Christian that his former tutor had fallen on hard times . |
| 27 | Even if one accepted de Gaulle 's implausible claim that the RPF had saved France from communism in 1947 , it was clear by 1951 that the RPF had failed to achieve its essential aim , since the Fourth Republic had survived . |
| 28 | Gabriel had collected Steve from school and brought him home , where she had cooked him a meal . |
| 29 | IBM , meanwhile , is not giving any word on the deal , but the company told Computerwoche from Armonk that it is ‘ talking to Parallan ’ . |
| 30 | Adjustable floodlight with PIR sensor : the economically priced Powerflood from ELEC has a range of 12m |