Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] from [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Italy , Giuseppe Garibaldi , had campaigned for the unification of his country for many years , gaining Venice from the Austrians , and established Victor Emmanuel as King of Italy , but it was not until 1870 that a march on Rome overpowered the French and Papal troops , and establish a united Italy with Victor Emmanuel as King in residence , in July 1871 . |
| 2 | The main joke , a cheerily philistine one , is to pitch Australia from the margins of Western thought into its centre . |
| 3 | The main joke , a cheerily philistine one , is to pitch Australia from the margins of Western thought into its centre . |
| 4 | More importantly , he was not tonsured : Lothar , perhaps moved by the obligations of a godfather , could not bring himself thus to exclude Charles from the ranks of the throneworthy . |
| 5 | An indication of progress on the subject of SLCMs was provided on July 14 , when the US National Security Adviser , Brent Scowcroft , commented that ( Soviet ) proposals to ban SLCMs altogether ( in the light of perceived verification problems associated with ascertaining their numbers ) were " one of the open areas in the strategic arms negotiations ' ( the USA had formerly wanted to exclude SLCMs from the talks ) . |
| 6 | After so many hours , lives , speeches spent , Thus once again says Nestor from the Greeks : ‘ Deliver Helen , and all damage else — As honour , loss of time , travail expense , Wounds , friends , and what else dear that is consumed In hot digestion of this comorant war — Shall be struck off . ’ |
| 7 | But the very fact that the French were the most intransigent as regards releasing Germany from the cruelties of the Versailles treaty made all the more imperative the need to bring to the gathering at Darlington Hall at least one French gentleman with unambiguous influence over his country 's foreign policy . |
| 8 | It was from Santiago that the Reconquista — the crusade to reconquer Spain from the Moors — was launched . |
| 9 | Of course , token gestures often suffice to land unknown quantities from obscurity — Republic of Ireland striker Tony Cascarino joined Gillingham from a boys ' club in Crockenhill for the cost of a new set of playing strips . |
| 10 | Stealing the money , Chubei is able to buy Umegawa from the clutches of a wealthier rival . |
| 11 | between Catholics and Protestants , did much damage to people and to places in the Pyrenean region , Pau included , and Jeanne d'Albret 's army commander , Montgomery , who recaptured Pau from the troops of King Charles IX , achieved an especially nasty reputation for the reprisals and pillagings he carried out . |
| 12 | Labour knows to win power it must take Swindon from the Conservatives . |
| 13 | By now , the Othmanli ( or Ottoman ) Turks , another migrant group from Central Asia , were firmly established in Anatolia in succession to the Seljuks , having wrested Constantinople from the Byzantines in 1453 . |
| 14 | The Byzantines inherited Dalmatia from the Latins , and their sovereignty , although often disputed , was recognised , however nominally in later centuries , for as long as five hundred years . |
| 15 | I rang Duncan from the phones on the wall in the hospital entrance as time was running out . |
| 16 | She made a mental note to listen more attentively to her lessons in biology and in Marxism , and then , to divert Omi from the views she was expressing , Erika said : ‘ Uncle Karl will be back soon , Omi . |
| 17 | Bede specifically excludes Kent from the kingdoms south of the Humber which he regarded as subject to Eadwine ( HE 11 , 5 ) ( see above , p. 43 ) . |
| 18 | On the night , he bought himself a ticket , watched Dinah from the stalls — how could she remain so cool , so competent , when her heart must be torn , as his , by reason of their separation ? |
| 19 | The new company was named CFS Aeroengines from the surnames of its directors , . |
| 20 | Less than three weeks after substantial Labour gains in the 1922 municipal election , Groves won Stratford from the Tories , while Thorne and Jones were re-elected on a platform of working-class advocacy . |
| 21 | But the Protestant Elizabeth , the queen whom he thought he was flattering by likening her to Deborah ( the prophetess who , with the help of the Lord , saved Israel from the Canaanites ) , was never to forgive him , and this ensured that his role in the years of success for the Scottish Protestants after 1560 was less than it might otherwise have been . |
| 22 | ‘ Far from constituting ransom to achieve the freedom of American hostages , ’ North assured Livingstone over the cooling coffee , ‘ the military goods provided Iran were part of a rapprochement process designed to deliver Iran from the clutches of the Soviet Union and to block the Soviet drive to the Persian Gulf . ’ |
| 23 | Whereas rejection of Soviet dominance had been seen as an element in the poor support for communists and ex-communists elsewhere , the Economist of June 16 suggested that Bulgarians were comparatively well disposed to Russians , regarding them historically as " Slav brothers who freed Bulgaria from the Turks in 1878 " . |
| 24 | Zhou had shielded Deng from the extremists when ‘ class struggle ’ was predominant rather than economic development . |
| 25 | For a typical candidate , one need look no further than Keith Hill , bidding to take Streatham from the Tories . |
| 26 | The army which set out to recover Berwick from the Scots in July 1319 was some 14,000 strong , but it ended with a humiliating retreat and flight into England ; undoubtedly the Scottish outflanking movement which penetrated deep into England was the major contributor to this disaster , but acrimony between Lancaster and Edward may have helped bring it about and was certainly magnified by it , so that afterwards the relations of the two men rapidly deteriorated just at the time when Despenser the younger was antagonizing other magnates as well . |
| 27 | Žižka went on successfully to defend Bohemia from the crusades which were preached against the Hussites who , by this time , had acquired a thoroughly democratic and Protestant cast . |
| 28 | Harvey thrust him aside and , with a gallantry which began even to him to appear to be excessively foolish , given the time and place , dragged Amaranth from the clutches of the mob . |
| 29 | In listing the problems , they began with the Solheim Cup , where they had had to ban Doyle from the players ' room for being a disruptive influence . |
| 30 | Relief portrait of Barbarossa , mounted , whilst crusading to rescue Jerusalem from the Saracens . |