Example sentences of "[adv prt] from [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had n't reckoned on one of the Liaison team coming down from Central London just to shake his hand , talk baseball results , and drive him back . |
| 2 | But more than elephants , big cats and early man moved down from continental Asia across that early land-bridge to the islands . |
| 3 | By meticulous surveying and mapping over many years , exploration of the cave beyond its earliest known extremities — to connect with underground passages coming down from Gaping Gill a mile away — had been charted to within a short distance . |
| 4 | The wolves have been coming in from eastern Europe where they fled to escape hunters and human population expansion . |
| 5 | I was able to talk to the German customer and the people on the floor , who are excessively worried about the number of people coming in from the East , not only East Germany but they 're very , very worried about people coming in from Eastern Europe , and secondly there was so much East European food that was for sale in Germany at very low prices and there 's food that used to go to the Soviet Union . |
| 6 | But finally a muddy old train trundles in from deepest Essex , chattering to itself like the Little Red Engine : ‘ I 'm a good little engine , I climbed over the hill . ’ |
| 7 | Police divers drafted in from neighbouring Thames Valley force were yesterday searching an outdoor swimming pool and nearby pond . |
| 8 | Congratulatory messages flooded in from senior RAF commanders , including the Chief of the Air Staff , Portal — ‘ I have just read first accounts of Bremen raid . |
| 9 | Donations have come in from several UK sites plus business in . |
| 10 | The imposition of 8 per cent VAT on domestic fuel and a 1 per cent increase in employees ' NI contribution to 10 per cent will come in from next April , with a further hefty rise in the fuel VAT rate to 17 per cent planned for 1995 . |
| 11 | Specific features such as the horseshoe arch , vault designs , interlacing in ornamental carving and the circular church design appear in widely separated places — Scandinavia , Britain , north Germany , Yugoslavia , Bohemia , for example — and are not Roman features so they would , one presumes , have percolated through from northern Europe rather than southern . |
| 12 | But the team has responded well to caretaker-manager Allison since he took over from sacked Dennis Rofe two games ago . |
| 13 | George took over from young Joseph as the main provider . |
| 14 | He takes over from Alloa-based Derek Allison who has moved on to be British national coach . |
| 15 | The ex-Gunner is Hoddle 's first appointment , taking over from another Highbury old boy Peter Nicholas as youth team coach . |
| 16 | ‘ The young one what took over from old Wilkins . ’ |
| 17 | Taking over from Big Ron , Francis has become an accomplished manager after his experience at QPR . |
| 18 | In fact they 're a fraud — the arches were brought over from nearby St. Helen 's Church when part of the church was pulled down , by a Mr Trendall in eighteen-sixty . |
| 19 | It has a smaller than average electorate but is unlikely to prevent former barrister Stuart Bell , who took over from long-serving Arthur Bottomley in 1983 , winning . |
| 20 | Daniel , who dialled 999 as his mother struggled for her life , will be a given a new start , cut off from 55-year-old Horbury . |
| 21 | Helicopter gunships ply constant missions from their base at Kombolcha : yesterday I watched MiG-21 fighter-bombers , loaded with bombs and rockets , take off from Dire Dawa and head west . |
| 22 | Peter Scudamore 's mount took it up from Jinxy Jack two out and sprinted clear on the flat , landing the odds by five lengths from Gordon Richards ' horse , with Fidway two lengths away in third . |
| 23 | I got the drinks in and discovered that Dosh and Freddie were flat-sharing in Willesden and were both typists up from darkest Bedfordshire a mere three months before in search of bright lights , word-processor experience and more than six grand a year . |
| 24 | Aim for the knoll of Little Ingleborough where a path coming up from Gaping Gill will be joined for the last easy half-mile to the summit . |
| 25 | The gallery has secured a newly discovered and never before exhibited example from that group ‘ Sunset at Petworth House ’ and has placed it among examples by other artists from Richard Dadd to Lucian Freud in a show called ‘ British Watercolors ’ , on from 5 May to 5 June . |
| 26 | Could I move on from that Sir Frederick just to ask you whilst you 're on the phone your views on er the story in the Daily Mail today . |
| 27 | The novelty of the Bootle tempest was the ominous depth of its motifs , its intensity , and its timing — six months on from Black Wednesday , after a true winter of discontent and many-sided collapse . |
| 28 | Three weeks on from 27 September , ‘ An Unearthly Child ’ was rerecorded , with only the model and film footage being re-used from the pilot . |
| 29 | The show , on from 1 May to 12 June , was curated by Jean-Noel Herlin and the catalogue has an essay by Steven Heller . |
| 30 | Most of the deadlines that must be met for the new pay and file tax system are at least nine months on from 1 October 1993 , but one is already less than a year away . |