Example sentences of "[to-vb] from [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly , Arthur Hellyer is also no longer with us , he died last week at the age of 90 ; two of his titles are to appear from Hamlyn in March : The Hellyer Pocket Guide ( £4.99 ) and The Hellyer Gardening Encyclopedia ( £14.99 , 0 600 57645 0 ) . |
| 2 | Michael , their younger brother , had promised to come from London at Easter but Luke , the eldest , still would not come . |
| 3 | ‘ The locomotive for our London to Glasgow train was based in Leicester , ’ Mr Gisby says , ‘ so it had to come from Leicester to London before it did any work . |
| 4 | ‘ Thank goodness that at last I shall be able to come from Stowbridge by the short way and under the low bridge ! ’ he said . |
| 5 | However , overloading of certain services remains a major problem , and reports have been received of passengers having to stand from Birmingham to Aberystwyth ! |
| 6 | An up Marylebone express prepares to depart from Victoria in 1951 hauled by A3 4–6–2 No. 60059 ‘ Tracery ’ — a regular loco on the GC lines both in the 30 's and 50's . |
| 7 | Even as mild a personality as Norman Bentwich was inclined to utter strong words when an entire Kindertransport was held up by Schonfeld because it was scheduled to depart from Germany on the Sabbath . |
| 8 | Just about to depart from Gibraltar for the island . |
| 9 | Forced to depart from Suxavat by its apocalyptic destruction , Urim 's final journey to the Andes reveals to him the mirror-image of the Hindu Kush of his origins . |
| 10 | The Black Prince was to march from Bordeaux into the north-central areas of the country ; Henry , duke of Lancaster , planned to attack from Normandy ; while Edward III himself was also to come from the north . |
| 11 | On this day : the Gregorian calendar was adopted in Italy and Spain and today became 15 October 1582 ; Spain declared war on Britain , 1796 ; Italian troops occupied Tripoli , 1911 ; the first air battle took place between German and French aircraft , 1914 ; the Allies landed at Salonika , 1915 ; Sir Arthur Lee presented the estate of Chequers as an official country residence for the Prime Minister , 1917 ; the Locarno Conference met and the great powers guaranteed frontiers and agreed to put disputes to arbitration , 1925 ; unemployed shipyard workers started to march from Jarrow to London , 1936 ; the Cominform ( Communist Information Bureau ) was set up to aid European Communist parties , 1947 ; tea rationing ended in Britain , 1952 . |
| 12 | Emilio Segre was one kid , and Bruno Pontecorvo , later to defect from Britain to the Soviet Union , another . |
| 13 | Summoned to Liverpool Street station , which Merrick had managed to reach from Brussels before collapsing , Treves arranged to have Merrick admitted to the London Hospital , and an appeal launched by the chairman of the hospital , F. C. Carr Gomm , in The Times in December 1886 provided sufficient funds to keep him there . |
| 14 | He talked wildly about shame and guilt , and how he would give part of the money he 'd inherited to his wife and to you , and use the rest to escape from England with the girl he loved . |
| 15 | He was glad to escape from Ottawa to Aix . |
| 16 | Luo had served nearly two years of a five-year sentence on charges of trying to help Wang Juntao and Chen Ziming to escape from China after the 1989 massacre in Tiananmen Square . |
| 17 | When Dante , the Italian poet , was exiled from his home in Florence , he decided to walk from Italy to Paris , to search for the real meaning of life . |
| 18 | She has already walked across Australia and the US , and now plans to walk from Gibraltar to John O'Groats to become the first woman to circumnavigate the world on foot . |
| 19 | I think some one has to walk from Nottingham to Dundee . |
| 20 | Win a chance to sail from Southampton to Rio de Janeiro with the British Steel Challenge . |
| 21 | Now , having already risked a considerable outlay on refitting and storing the ship , he was faced with the possibility of having to sail from Polruan with several hands short of a full complement . |
| 22 | Knighton is ready to offer the Manchester United boss a new deal on the 50.6 per cent shareholding which he sought to buy from Edwards for £10m , and which is now the subject of a damaging legal wrangle in the High Court . |
| 23 | Apart from the pure nostalgia generated among those of us who know the route well , it was enlightening to hear from Russell of the practical problems and time involved in making such a film — 200+ hours and many journeys , hoping to be at the right place at the right time — and , as always , the great unknown — the weather . |
| 24 | Peggy travelled extensively around the country introducing Medau , and a 5.30 a.m. start to journey from Sheffield to London ( accompanied only by a large bag of balls ) to teach just one class was not exceptional ! |
| 25 | They had to journey from Heathrow to Edinburgh by overnight coach and check out of their Edinburgh hotel two hours before the kick-off because they could not afford to remain there after the match . |
| 26 | Now near the Dutch frontier , Harry felt it might be an idea to cross from Germany by climbing into a wagon in a marshalling yard , but after a tedious wait when nothing moved he returned to his cycle and was soon in sight of the red and white border posts . |
| 27 | The story goes so far as to suggest that Hewlett-Packard threatened to resign from OSF over the pace of development but changed its mind . |
| 28 | This is of particular importance because of the impression which Tolstoy sought to convey in The Minter and the Massacres that attempts were made to withhold from McCreery on his visit to 5 Corps a true picture of what was happening . |
| 29 | The guide is the first to emerge from FEMA since the 1950s . |
| 30 | The most coherent films to emerge from Elstree during this time were both set in the Edwardian era , Losey 's glorious The Go-Between ( 1970 ) and The Railway Children ( 1970 ) , with the latter aiming at that much-lamented but largely-departed family audience . |