Example sentences of "[noun prp] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chancellor had shortened his stay in Bangkok , where he was attending a meeting of the International Monetary Fund , to open the conference , and speakers included Patrick Coldstream , the Director of the Council for Industry and Higher Education , Tim Eggar , one of the Department of Education and Science Ministers , Sir Michael Angus , the Vice-Chancellor and Dr Celia Russo from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chausées . |
| 2 | According to consultant Samantha Vandertoorn from The South London Natural Health Centre , the knowledge that you 're about to forget all your troubles in flotation could be just the incentive your body needs to get you to Westminster Bridge . |
| 3 | Perhaps their escape from Germany felt as miraculous as that of Jonah from the whale . |
| 4 | First he made a gourd spring up to protect Jonah from the sun ( by ‘ gourd ’ we are to understand something like the castor-oil plant or Palma Christi , with its rapid growth and all-sheltering leaves ) ; then , with no more than a wave of the silk handkerchief , he sent a maggot to destroy the said gourd , leaving Jonah painfully exposed to the heat . |
| 5 | For a moment the paralysis which had struck Neil from the moment that Havvie had begun his assault on her reputation was on him again . |
| 6 | The party was conducted by Mr Burt from the station to Durlston Head , ‘ the owner of this magnificent property explaining points of interest ’ on the way . |
| 7 | So , as I say , the Muse of History laughed when Britain , which had risen almost as one man to take the Falklands from the Argentine , then quite logically watched , passive and embarrassed , while the United States occupied the independent sovereign state of Grenada . |
| 8 | They came in to Chernay from the sea . |
| 9 | The final session was given by Dr David Hill from the Department for Continuing Education , who proved that ‘ the science of wine is not just an art ’ . |
| 10 | Opposition to the king 's favourite was so soon mobilized that by May 1308 Edward was compelled to banish Gaveston from the realm . |
| 11 | The dissidents voted to " expel " V. P. Singh from the party . |
| 12 | Even before August 1991 , this group had tried to remove Gorbachev from the post of general secretary of the Central Committee . |
| 13 | It is one thing to exclude cases like Ibrams from the defence — the gap of some five days between provocation and killing savours of considered revenge ; it is another thing to exclude defendants with slow-burning temperaments , who do not react straight away to an insult or wrong , but go away and then react after hours of festering anger . |
| 14 | It became obvious as soon as Annunziata handed round the soup tureen that Comfort was deliberately trying to exclude David from the conversation and show him how de trop he was . |
| 15 | cos I never entertain none of them , I 'd just used to sit there and laugh , I never spoke to David from the day everybody left . |
| 16 | ‘ Have you found them yet ? ’ demanded Bella from the living room . |
| 17 | With Plehve far from the field , Auffenberg , rather than going in pursuit , should change direction and strike the advancing armies of Ruzski and Brusilov from the north , while the Second Army , from Serbia , at last in position , struck from the south . |
| 18 | First he would have pushed a strong diversionary force at Charleroi , then , when the allies moved to defend Brussels from the south , he would have launched the real attack to the west . |
| 19 | Cyngen ap Cadell , king of Powys in the mid-ninth century , erected a monument , Eliseg 's Pillar , to his great-grandfather , Eliseg , who is said to have annexed the inheritance of Powys from the power of the Angles . |
| 20 | The other team was the Levitt team with No 1 Libor Krejci , No 2 Prince Abdullah , who had flown his ponies in from the Argentine , and played extremely well , scoring several of the goals ; No 3 Marcelo Caset from the Argentine , and Lord Charles Beresford at back . |
| 21 | Mr Vernes made a saleroom record for a piece of French furniture in November 1991 by paying FFr23 million for a jewel casket made by Martin Carlin for Marie-Antoinette from the collection of US money manager Roberto Polo . |
| 22 | A Sergeant Williams in London followed Tawell from the train around several of the capital 's coffee houses before he returned to Quaker 's lodgings at Cheapside . |
| 23 | Head of Medusa from the frieze of the Temple of Apollo , Didyma , Turkey , second century A.D. |
| 24 | ‘ At the moment the team is coached by Andrew Soper from the computer department , although he wo n't thank me for telling everyone , ’ said Suzanne Isaacs of the Personnel Department at Broadgate . |
| 25 | The prospect of a coalition government led by the Japan Socialist Party ( JSP ) resulted in increased financial support and funding for the LDP from the business community , the Economist of Dec. 23 , 1989 , reported that , in a bid to ward off a possible LDP defeat , 13 national and commercial banks had provided US$104,000,000 in emergency finance to the LDP 's electoral campaign funds , repayable at 1 per cent over the prime rate . |
| 26 | His arrogance and bullying alienated the Imperial family ; and in their desperation they called in the armies of the Hindu Mahratta Confederacy from the Deccan to help rid them of their troublesome Vizier . |
| 27 | In 1982 Israel invaded Lebanon to remove the PLO from the battlefield . |
| 28 | ‘ Sam dragged Scott from the road because he was afraid he was going to be hit by another car , ’ said Scott 's grateful mother Caroline at Milton Keynes General Hospital yesterday . |
| 29 | Turn round ! girl , ’ and swung her round by the shoulders , and while holding her with one hand she ripped the pieces of tape from the end of each plait , before she tore at the hair until it hung in uneven strands ; then she almost lifted Millie from the floor as , using both hands now , she drew the strands together and began forming them into a tight rope-like plait . |
| 30 | Another chemist , Robert Bergman from the University of California in Berkeley , has made an organic derivative of iridium that can also split a carbon-hydrogen bond . |