Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But golf is a game of courage and that separates Faldo from the rest .
2 Opposition to the king 's favourite was so soon mobilized that by May 1308 Edward was compelled to banish Gaveston from the realm .
3 A single horseman approached Charleroi from the west .
4 It became obvious as soon as Annunziata handed round the soup tureen that Comfort was deliberately trying to exclude David from the conversation and show him how de trop he was .
5 This was how I regarded Dana from the start .
6 The road-builders , moving ahead of the woodcutters , approached Swinbrook from the direction of Leafield .
7 Edward began by attempting to exclude Stratford from the assembly , but failed in the face of support for the archbishop from the Earl of Arundel , Earl Warenne , and other lay magnates who shared their suspicion of those round the king .
8 ‘ How long ? ’ shouted Billie from the rear , loud enough to be heard over the roar of the two-hundred horsepower engine .
9 Two weeks later , Henry changed his will and excluded Gardiner from the regency council which had been appointed to rule during the minority of his son .
10 Relations with Brian Clough hit rock bottom , you might remember , when the manager called the police in to escort Fashanu from the club 's training ground .
11 After a brief , appalled glance at Lydia , Mrs Molesworth ( Lil ) sat down on a corner of the sofa and asked the doctor a question about the imminent agricultural show designed to exclude Lydia from the conversation , to reveal her close knowledge of this event and therefore to illustrate her important position in the local community .
12 Soon I came to a strange place where the river divided , one part of it compressed as a hurling white torrent between steep artificial banks , the other part let into a tranquil canal that entered Galway from the countryside .
13 They beat Southampton from the premiership in the second round and have now forced a replay in their third round tie against Blackburn Rovers .
14 They eventually approached Berwick from the north-west , rounding the skirts of Halidon Hill , and from there able to look down on the grey town at the wide mouth of Tweed , two miles off .
15 Photographer and ex-model Corinne Day , who championed Kate from the outset , agrees .
16 Approaching from Shurton and Stogursey , Henry Poole and his companions probably entered Stowey from the north .
17 White had rescued Brown from the nose but Ainley was dead when they managed to get him out .
18 In a dealer programme , an appointed dealer normally acts as a principal , purchasing SCP from the issuer for onward distribution to investors .
19 This does not preclude the possibility that the Woodvilles turned against their former ally in 1483 and cynically excluded Gloucester from the protectorship in order to secure more power for themselves .
20 This does not preclude the possibility that the Woodvilles turned against their former ally in 1483 and cynically excluded Gloucester from the protectorship in order to secure more power for themselves .
21 ‘ For Christ 's sake , get away from there , Cardiff ! ’ shouted Jimmy from the landing , the voices of Duvall and Barbara joining in frantic chorus .
22 ‘ Listen , my dear , ’ she said to Alexandra , summoned flushed and impatient from the orchard where she had been settling her new charges in and attempting , as tactfully as possible , to exclude Murphy from the process , ‘ Mrs Langley says George is heartened beyond anything by your visit .
23 ‘ Connie , ’ implored Scarlet from the street .
24 I think one hole in particular separated Arnold from the rest — and it was n't the postage Stamp .
25 Salinas dismissed fears that a new relationship with the USA would isolate Mexico from the rest of Latin America .
26 Turn round ! girl , ’ and swung her round by the shoulders , and while holding her with one hand she ripped the pieces of tape from the end of each plait , before she tore at the hair until it hung in uneven strands ; then she almost lifted Millie from the floor as , using both hands now , she drew the strands together and began forming them into a tight rope-like plait .
27 Furthermore , it was Victor IV who drove Alexander from the city of Rome , represented by Boso as the true pope 's " kingdom " .
28 As she ate Maltesers from the box on her knee , apparently engrossed in the antics of Mickey Mouse , Donald Duck or pluto her left hand seemed not to know what her right was doing .
29 From the façade and sides rise a mass of spires that form a small forest of stone through which to view Milan from the roof of the cathedral .
30 Both areas , breaking and mending , engrossed Dostoevsky from the time when the shared convict existence of prison snapped him like a dry biscuit yet also made him new , so that in the closing words of The House of the Dead , with the knocking off of his fetters , the narrator greets ‘ a new life , voskresenie from the dead ’ .
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