Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] from a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The settlement does not , however , protect E&Y from civil suits filed by former investors in S&Ls — the $63m it paid in connection with Lincoln arose from a civil suit . |
| 2 | ALEXANDER Workwear tumbled from a £5.3m profit to a £500,000 pre-tax loss last year , after charging £1½m ( £1.3m ) of exceptional rationalisation costs . |
| 3 | The Manufacturing , Science and Finance union negotiated an agreement last year , for instance , that entitled part-time women working for Norwich Union to benefit from a mortgage subsidy scheme . |
| 4 | Mrs Langley rose from a chair by the fire and Alexandra was aware of her daughters and someone else on a sofa in the great square bay window ; and even as Mrs Langley was greeting her she could hear Rose say clearly , ‘ Well , whatever else she has n't got , she certainly has elegant clothes , ’ and Alexandra , stung out of all terror quite suddenly , said crisply , ‘ I will tell my aunt how much you admire her taste . |
| 5 | Then she lit him up the stairs , and went before him into the panelled solar , where Rhodri rose from a tall chair by the fire to receive him . |
| 6 | David Platt 's Juventus recovered from a bad defeat at Inter last week by thrashing Ancona 5–1 to move into fourth place . |
| 7 | In Edna O'Brien 's A Pagan Place , which followed Veterans at the Royal Court in 1972 , Eyre drew from a 16-year-old school girl called Veronica Quilligan , who had never acted before , a performance of exquisite subtlety and emotional truth . |
| 8 | Bunny was going home on a twenty-four-hour pass and Meredith returning from a week 's leave in Hoylake . |
| 9 | Her own domestic incompetence ( which was indeed extreme , but what had Edgar expected from a wife with an upbringing like hers ? ) , |
| 10 | Thus Barbarossa came from a noble family , with a background that suited him to his eventual imperial career . |
| 11 | The upkeep of such a house would require a substantial income , she thought to herself ; she remembered that Veronica came from a wealthy family . |
| 12 | Engels quotes from a description of one such development , produced by the cooperation of a carpenter and bricklayer , in which a whole street followed the course of a ditch to save the cost of excavating cellars in which people were to live . |
| 13 | Bernice woke from a strange dream in which the Doctor was mashing potatoes before a crowd of derisively laughing robots . |
| 14 | Mr Hutchinson said he saw Mr Deacon emerge from a back door . |
| 15 | Deric Baxter , at 79 , found the youthful power of Toby Sykes off the tee a severe handicap and the failure of both Deric and son David to escape from a bunker at the 16th was the final blow . |
| 16 | THE smallest crowd of the season at McDiarmid Park last night saw St Johnstone recover from a backs-to-the-wall first half to take two vital points from Falkirk . |
| 17 | On March 6 , in a GPC debate broadcast by Libyan television , Kadhafi heard from a delegate who claimed that Libya faced a great problem because of the large number of people who had switched from production to retailing , alleging that prices had risen four- or five-fold " and everyone is complaining " . |
| 18 | Taylor may recall that Gazza returned from a double-hernia operation to win a high-tension match for Spurs at Wembley inside the first 15 minutes . |
| 19 | Picasso worked from a photograph he had taken of his friend and dealer who recorded that Picasso nevertheless demanded some twenty sittings . |
| 20 | The Transport and General Workers ' Union complained last night after a driver employed at RAF Stafford died from a heart attack . |
| 21 | Commercial breaks were replaced with old clips of Aoun ranting from a balcony to adoring crowds , just like a Nuremberg rally . |
| 22 | With Paul Baker and Andy Saville out for the season , Pool hope Johnrose recovers from a sprained wrist before tomorrow 's game at Leyton Orient . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , ’ Sir Robert also stood up , stretching himself carefully , ‘ on the Monday after Easter , Falconer dies from a mysterious fall from a tower . |
| 24 | This was when I learnt for the first time how experts conducted dealing for Jim came from a family of dealers . |
| 25 | Korda came from a broken home and it left him insecure . |
| 26 | Clift came from a hugely successful New York stage background . |
| 27 | Nicholas Leventhorpe came from a family active in the duchy since the beginning of the century . |
| 28 | Nicholas Leventhorpe came from a family active in the duchy since the beginning of the century . |
| 29 | Bentley Drummle came from a rich family living in the country . |
| 30 | Millwall v Arsenal Arsenal still have to find their form of a year ago but they continue to pick up points at regular intervals , and with Marwood fit and Groves recovered from a virus they should have the resources to beat a Millwall side again lacking Briley and looking for their first League win since September 23 . |