Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [noun] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Lawes was praised for bringing in experts from Suffolk County Council 's archaeological department , who were astonished to find thousands of coins , sets of spoons , pepper pots and other valuables from the fifth century . |
| 2 | The route crosses through agricultural land minimising land severance where possible , and is carried on embankment from Straiton over the Mineral Railway and Lasswade Road . |
| 3 | To save money it is moving out of London to Newport in South Wales and has been running roadshows to drum up business from industry . |
| 4 | His role was to drum up contributions from friends in big business . |
| 5 | As was so often the case , he sucked up nourishment from books he happened to be reading , finding parallels in the lives of characters to his own dilemmas and solutions . |
| 6 | The children do not make a direct transition from structured signs into English written grammar ; in fact , they rely on structures in ASL they already know , and this forms the basis of their task solution of writing down English from sign users . |
| 7 | The Conservative Conference : Hostile shadows loom over haven from reality |
| 8 | The threat of being hired and fired at will frightens off workers from unions . |
| 9 | With Alex James as the pivot picking up clearances from defence and passing immediately to the front-runners , Arsenal could have the ball in their opponents ' net only seconds after being packed in their own goal area . |
| 10 | Since 1987 it has emerged as the number one buyer of privatised bus companies , picking up operators from Inverness to Hampshire . |
| 11 | A typical example of such a run originated with police information that a motor yacht named Glisseuse was picking up Asians from Nieuport in Belgium and running them into the Thames Estuary . |
| 12 | She could remember the incident quite clearly , although the circumstances surrounding it had vanished into oblivion , beyond recall of any form of analysis : it had been early afternoon , so clearly not a party incident — maybe they had had lunch together ? — and she had been anxious about picking up children from school . |
| 13 | Britain is to send four ships which took part in the Falklands War , to carry the desert rats to the Gulf : Sir Tristram , Sir Galahad , Sir Bevedere and er Sir Bedevere and Sir Percival are expected to start picking up tanks from West Germany in the next few weeks . |
| 14 | The Meien valley road climbs up west from Wassen through varied alpine landscape including tunnels , through one of which it traverses the Susten pass summit ( 2,224m , 7,295ft ) . |
| 15 | Reception was , and still is , poor in many parts of the country , but with ingenuity and a certain amount of patient tuning it is possible in any area to pick up services from transmitters in Lusaka , Kabwe , Livingstone and the Copperbelt . |
| 16 | Pulling the centre-half back left a gap in midfield which needed a link man to pick up passes from defence and lay them on for the forwards . |
| 17 | Mr Miller uses the buses to pick up medication from Loftus for his heart condition . |
| 18 | By all the rules of the market , Hewlett-Packard Co 's HP 3000 business computer family should be going the way of the Wang Laboratories Inc VS and the Nixdorf Computer AG 8870 , but in defiance of crude market logic , the machine is going from strength to strength , bolstered by the company 's relaxed approach to migration to Unix : because HP 3000 users know they can relatively painlessly convert to Unix any time they choose , the majority are happy to stay right where they are , and the company claims that its high-end HP 3000 system business actually grew more than 50% last year , and the much-derided Posix interface is actually enabling it to pick up applications from Unix . |
| 19 | Mr Allan , the 32-year-old Liberal Democrat , is hoping to pick up votes from people tired of the bickering between the two major parties . |
| 20 | ‘ Be sure to pick up Kirsty from school at four . ’ |
| 21 | The Texas-based airline warned two weeks ago that it might pull out of Stansted due to mounting losses and delays in the granting of licences to open up routes from Stansted to other U.S. cities . |
| 22 | China 's conservation efforts have received a good deal of attention and it has been difficult to sort out myth from reality . |
| 23 | Measure up any items which have to stay in the kitchen , and cut out shapes from graph paper to represent them . |
| 24 | A FAMILY fought off competition from Europe yesterday to keep the world 's last flying Vulcan bomber in Britain . |
| 25 | Both he and Bebeto , who has 55 caps , turned down offers from Italy and Germany . |
| 26 | This weekend sees over runners from Ulster hospitals taking part in a province-wide 320-mile relay to raise cash for a counterpart in war-torn Ethiopia . |
| 27 | Richmann tumbled to the ground , warding off blows from Carrefour 's flailing arms . |
| 28 | Future satellites will also follow up discoveries from balloon flights : radiation from the centre of our Galaxy and active galaxies and quasars , probably originating in gas close to their central massive black holes . |
| 29 | Demant 's ‘ Christian Sociology ’ was important not just in itself ; it threw up names from Eliot 's past , such as those of Maine and Durkheim , which maintained the importance of such figures within an explicitly Christian context . |
| 30 | This put Mum in a terrible temper and to make matters worse , when we got home Dad and his friends were there pouring out beer from bottles . |