Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] from [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Turnover for the six months to the end of March almost doubled to £101m and the interim loss fell from last year 's £6.2m to £5.6m ( tour operators traditionally make a loss during the winter months when few people book holidays ) .
2 But there was more to it than that as Swansea soared from Fourth Division to First with only a season 's rest .
3 After his inclusion in the side the Town rose from seventeenth place to third , where they finished the season , their highest position yet .
4 The put-put of tennis balls came from next door but one , and cultured cries of enjoyment .
5 And some of the worst excesses during this period came from Third World governments , such as Sanjay Ghandi 's notorious sterilisation campaign in India in 1976 .
6 The next couple of moments were total disbelief as the rod arched over and a powerful fish made a bee-line towards the far bank , ’ Cat on , ’ I shouted to Rick and a bleary-eyed bearded creature emerged from next door !
7 The music came from next door and when he left the bathroom and turned into the sitting room he felt dizzy .
8 Indeed , Clara knew from first hand experience the moral truth of the story told in The Golden Windows about the house with the golden windows , for she had once admired from a friend 's house the whole dazzling , distant , smoky lay-out of her own hillside .
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