Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] from [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The madman has just flown in from Rome on a whim , to spend a few days with me here . |
| 2 | What does it feel like for the select band of lay students ? , a mother and trained nurse who commutes daily from Stockton on Tees , says : ‘ Ushaw 's students have made us feel very welcome . |
| 3 | But anyway , talking about engineering as a whole , quite obviously it 's interesting to go back a bit because I 'm always interested in the way the institutions actually started because er there 's a lovely story about er , the Stephenson brothers and tho , ju , having just come down from Scarborough on a mini-holiday we stopped at York and I went over a great big museum there , and quite obviously seeing the marvellous locomotives you realise that George Stevenson had er , a lot to do with that . |
| 4 | Different centres of excellence will usually offer courses in their own specialism ; you may find you have to work away from home on secondment if your first choice is limited to only a few specialist centres . |
| 5 | ‘ It still leaves the business of you having to come home from Dublin on the bus every night , ’ Eve said . |
| 6 | The lighting was subtle : concealed behind pelmets , inset into the ceiling , bounced up from uplights on the floor , flickering from candles . |
| 7 | No he 's just come back from Tunisia on holiday so he 'll need it . |
| 8 | Laura came down from London on the long-distance bus . |
| 9 | ‘ I came in from work on the Monday night when Ray was on the phone . |
| 10 | We came back from Berlin on two engines . |
| 11 | I purpose , therefore , to wage war myself in Wales , and I intend to set out from Lichfield on — let me see , this is the twenty-fourth of June — on the seventh day of July . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They can be raised or lowered as well as moved horizontally from controls on the platform . |
| 14 | The methods used in determination of size vary widely from calipers on the coarsest fragments , through sieving and techniques dependent upon settling velocity , to those detecting changes in electrical resistance as particles are passed through small electrolyte-filled orifices . |
| 15 | The winter of 1963 sees class B1 No. 61367 pulling away from Killamarsh on an up train to Annesley . |
| 16 | Austrian President Waldheim 's visit in August had secured the release of some 80 Austrian nationals ; other developments of this nature included the release of the last 82 of some 500 Brazilians , who arrived home from Baghdad on Oct. 8 ; the release in mid-October of small groups of Spaniards , Finns and Swedes , and a visit to Iraq by a delegation from the American-Iraqi Association , resulting in the release of 14 elderly or sick men of US nationality who flew out to Amman on Oct. 23 . |
| 17 | With the issue of the chair still unresolved , the SDLP representatives withdrew temporarily from meetings on May 21 , saying that they would return once Brooke reached agreement with the Unionists . |
| 18 | So Lanfranco Dettori takes over from Cochrane on Cullinan at Phoenix Park today and on Legal Case and Statoblest at Longchamp tomorrow . |
| 19 | President-elect Bill Clinton , who takes over from Bush on January 20 , said Mr Bush 's decision gave the message : ‘ If you work for the government you 're above the law . ’ |
| 20 | We set off from Amriyah on 13 March , and spent the night with 73 Squadron , as El Adem was unsafe due to the unfriendly attention it was receiving from enemy dive-bombers . |
| 21 | The balloons , which set off from Maine on the US East Coast , were moving last night towards Newfoundland . |
| 22 | A sixty seven year old woman who was raped as she returned home from church on Christmas day has been talking about her horrifying ordeal . |
| 23 | A pensioner who was raped as she returned home from church on Christmas Day says she feared for her life during her forty-five minute ordeal . |
| 24 | Anthony and Maggie Barker will set off from Glasgow on 30 March on their 10-day , 700-mile cycle ride . |
| 25 | Peter Kessler , spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) , said it was hoped the ten-truck convoy which set out from Belgrade on Sunday could now proceed to the village of Cerska , where some 25,000 Muslims are trapped . |
| 26 | Then I remembered he was flying back from Sydney on that day . |
| 27 | The improvement achieved in all major classes during 1992 continued into the first quarter of 1993 as the portfolio benefited increasingly from action on rates and operating costs . |
| 28 | I got back from Washington on Friday . |
| 29 | Travelling on from Wiggen on road 10 , Trubschachen is reached in 6km ( 4 miles ) . |
| 30 | Maggie flew over from London on the morning of the Day . |