Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early in his time as prime minister he asked Ramsey to come down from York so that they could meet . |
| 2 | As he was a very intellectual artist , he was the ideal figure to take over from Metzinger the task of transmitting the principles of Cubism to the other painters ; and since he joined the group at a moment when the movement was striving for greater definition , his influence and importance can not be overestimated . |
| 3 | On the other hand they were available , recruiting them was simpler than persuading workers to come out from England , and they could never leave to work elsewhere . |
| 4 | The Benetton test job had appeared to be destined for fellow-Scot David Coulthard but he , apparently , has recently been approached by Frank Williams to take over from Hill . |
| 5 | Bainbridge has a lovely village green which was the setting for nothing more remarkable than the fact that I arrived there one day to walk over from Bainbridge to Cam Houses with Tony and Eddie , the landlord from my local pub , only to discover that I 'd left my walking boots back at home in Dentdale and had to do the entire walk in a pair of fur-lined cowboy boots , which earned me the nickname of Roy Rogers for the rest of the week . |
| 6 | The Company is committed to continuing to supply around half Scotland 's electricity needs , which means a new power station to take over from Hunterston B when it finally shuts down . |
| 7 | The opportunity to fly down from Liverpool to a sales meeting at Maidenhead via White Waltham had seemed too good to pass up . |
| 8 | Cecilia went down the steps at West Hampstead station and stood on the lefthand platform waiting for the train to come down from Kilburn . |
| 9 | if we suppose a traveller to set out from Venice on March 1 , 1245 , the first day of the Venetian year , he would find himself in 1244 when he reached Florence ; and if after a short stay he went on to Pisa , the year 1246 would already have begun there . |
| 10 | Among the other pro 's on the move are Tim Jenkins , who has left Castle Eden to take over from Fred Thorpe at Stressholme , the Darlington municipal course , and Steve McKenna , who has returned to Tynemouth after spending a year in France . |
| 11 | He was encouraged by Queen Victoria to branch out from studio portraits , and his landscapes attracted widespread acclaim . |
| 12 | That view was strengthened by the Government 's decision to back off from Thursday 's confrontation with its own rebels out of fear of another defeat . |
| 13 | But another forum for part of the computer industry , the Computer Services Association ( CSA ) , got what it wanted — a promise from the Government to buy in from software houses at least one-third of the applications software needed to run the ministries . |
| 14 | Bryan Davies ( Oldham Central and Royton ) and Dennis Skinner ( Bolsover ) claimed in the Commons that Social Security Secretary Peter Lilley and Agriculture Minister John Gummer chartered special flights to fly back from holiday in Normandy . |
| 15 | Fluctuations in the value of the pound were , however , to be made up in Marks and Spencer underwear which we would get our friends to mail out from Britain . |
| 16 | And anyway , I 'll have to go next door to take over from Arthur if my father does n't get back in time . ’ |
| 17 | The former came from ‘ blues ’ ( amphetamines ) as it was common for dances to go on from Saturday into Sunday . |
| 18 | Holograms are 3 dimensional images of scenes and events , enabling the viewer to look around from side to side , up and down to see different areas of the subject . |
| 19 | The obvious alternative was for New York to take over from London , but in financial matters , as in military ones , America was not yet prepared to undertake the role of world leadership which Britain could no longer fulfil . |
| 20 | Journalists , desperate to break the story on the latest trend in designer drugs , are hyping Ketamine as the drug to take over from Ecstasy . |
| 21 | He made it possible for the duke and his eight-months pregnant duchess to rush back from Germany to Kensington Palace for the birth , putting up the royal cavalcade at his home in Shooter 's Hill on the way . |
| 22 | The rest of the afternoon we spent shopping and taking in the experience of having so many shops and stalls under one roof There were all types to browse in from clothes , stationery , crafts and food as well as many others . |