Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun] from [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another way is to catch a bus from Bishop 's Castle to Newtown or Shrewsbury ( for the sake of the argument , suppose that there is one at a suitable time ) . |
| 2 | It has another division working on OSI , and recently won a contract from Microsoft Corp to supply X.400 technology for Microsoft Corp 's NT . |
| 3 | OATS has also won a contract from Kuwait Airways to train up to thirty pilots over the next two years . |
| 4 | In early September he had won a promise from India that anti-Bhutan activity would not be allowed by ethnic Nepalese who had fled Bhutan to West Bengal and Assam . |
| 5 | Hagi plays for Steaua Bucharest , the army club who have recently won a sponsorship from Ford . |
| 6 | Simon Vinkenoog , the founder of Sigma Nederland provided a piece from Amsterdam for the first issue on the then prominent Provos , the proto-Green anarchists who had just won seats on that city 's council . |
| 7 | He again promised a letter from John Wright , but instead it was he who again wrote at the end of October , ‘ You obviously have n't read my letter carefully . ’ |
| 8 | What he had n't mentioned was that we would be dining out in restaurants which had attracted a nod from Michelin , a faint damn from Gault-Millau or a paragraph of wet-dream prose in a British Sunday . |
| 9 | The following year Graham Greene , having struggled to write a script from Galsworthy 's Twenty-One Days — about a murderer who killed himself and an innocent man who was hanged for the suicide 's crime — within BBFC rules that forbade the representation of either suicide or a failure of British justice , joined with J. B. Priestley , Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells in speaking out against the censorship system . |
| 10 | Few words passed between them during the remainder of the horse trek , and even during lunch Silas appeared to be more silent than usual , a fact which drew a comment from Matt . |
| 11 | A report in the Sunday Times of Jan. 5 , detailing alleged Iraqi government help towards the development of an " Islamic bomb " in Algeria , drew a denial from Ghozali . |
| 12 | Net cash inflow from operations after tax and dividends was £225 million , a substantial increase from the 1991 figure of £169 million , which did not include a contribution from Ultramar . |
| 13 | They are mainly from France , Germany and Italy but do include a couple from Down Under . |
| 14 | He ended by stating , ‘ I might also include a quote from Shakespeare : ‘ Fools rush in where angels fear to tread . ’ |
| 15 | Your quote wins you a fiver Mrs P. She also send a gem from Henry Ford . |
| 16 | In 1961 he designed a chapel from Nuffield College in Oxford . |
| 17 | In 1961 he designed a chapel from Nuffield College in Oxford . |
| 18 | IF YOU want to tell the time , do n't buy a clock from Kovacs in Madison Avenue , New York . |
| 19 | Our performance is reported every year in The Post Office 's Report and Accounts , in which detailed information can be found on the number of addresses we serve , the volume of mail we handle and other statistics ( you can buy a copy from HMSO ) . |
| 20 | The first of these described two arduous journeys from Constantinople via Salonika ( taking in Mount Athos , which he climbed ) across the Scardus and Bertiscus ranges , then further north into Montenegro and across the Mirdita country of central Albania ; while the second described a journey from Samsun across the Anatolian plateau , through Cappadocia , past Lake Van to Erzerum , and so back to Trebizond , the latter stretch roughly across the route taken by Xenophon and the Ten Thousand . |
| 21 | In June he dismissed a letter from President Havel of Czechoslovakia protesting at the human rights situation in Cuba as " ignorant of our country 's problems " . |
| 22 | He proposed a march from Coalisland to Dungannon , ending with a rally in the town 's Market Square . |
| 23 | ‘ Ah , well , she had something special to do this morning , ’ Maggie said in what she imagined was a soothing voice , well aware that once again she was keeping a secret from Mitch . |
| 24 | Now we 're going to meet a man from Banbury who has to be one of the most amazing golfers in the world . |
| 25 | Sandwich was better situated to meet a threat from Scandinavia ; Wight , where Harold 's ships awaited William the Conqueror long and unsuccessfully in the summer of 1066 , implies a connection with the south or west , and perhaps particularly Normandy . |
| 26 | Thus , Diocletian had claimed a pedigree from Jupiter , Maximian a pedigree from Hercules . |
| 27 | We expect a lead from Westminster , not a vacuum left at Christmas or any other time of the year by a bunch of freeloaders . |
| 28 | Like Charles II in the following century , Henry tried to secure a pension from France . |
| 29 | I ask if they want a card from England , but they dismiss the suggestion with confidence . |
| 30 | cos as far as annual reports are concerned you just want a statement from Hugh , and a rough idea of how we 've performed financially . |