Example sentences of "[verb] from a [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , master , ’ I neighed , ‘ I 've come from a country on the other side of the world . |
| 2 | A court has been told that the idea for an elaborate murder plot , in which a couple were pushed over a cliff in a blazing car , may have come from a film on satellite television . |
| 3 | These ranged from a report on the radioactive intake of shelduck to the texts of vast studies on the phenomenon of global warming . |
| 4 | How should the law deal with cases where the woman 's consent to sexual intercourse stemmed from a mistake on her part ? |
| 5 | It stemmed from a declaration on principles of co-operation signed during a meeting between Mitterrand and the Soviet President , Mikhail Gorbachev , in Paris in July 1989 [ see pp. 36821-22 ] , and envisaged among other things the setting up of a single intergovernmental commission to replace existing commissions . |
| 6 | Fresh red blood dripped from a weal on his shoulders . |
| 7 | Two years ago I published an appeal by Mrs Mary Marsden , of Church Stretton , Shropshire , for news of any relatives of six airmen of 57 Squadron killed when their Wellington crashed at Staplefore , near Cambridge , on 3 September 1941 , when returning from a raid on Frankfurt . |
| 8 | 7,000 to £10,000. the Royal Perth Golfing Society originated from a meeting on April 5 1828 . |
| 9 | This is to be found to the west of the town and starts from a point on the A.16 . |
| 10 | It is also reported from a study on Moslem women in Bangladesh , Egypt , Indonesia , Nigeria , Sri Lanka and Sudan that , as parity rose , so did the incidence of anaemia , toxaemia , haemorrhage , fetus malpresentation and blood disorders . |
| 11 | She ran round there and found a woman collapsed on the floor , blood oozing from a cut on her arm and another on her thigh . |
| 12 | One of the most telling strands in the antiracist critique of multiculturalism in the 1970s and 1980s , for example , was that it suffered from an overemphasis on culture . |
| 13 | She nourishes them with a special fluid which exudes from a nipple on the wall of the pouch in which her larva lies . |
| 14 | She had stopped to drink from a can on the way up , caring little now for what it might be doing to her . |
| 15 | There is no way up that does not call for sustained effort , and while a thin track is forming from a cairn on the roadside and will be some help when well trodden , Liathach will never be an easy climb . |
| 16 | It is recognisable even when it appears in feminist dress , as it does , for example , in these remarks of Hester Eisenstein ( 1984 ) : ‘ I argue that feminist theory has moved from an emphasis on the elimination of gender difference to a celebration of that difference as a source of moral values . |
| 17 | I have woven into the account experiences ranging from a reflection on uniform patrol work , to CID and specialist squad work ; from the marginal world of a ‘ punishment posting ’ in a bridewell or prison , to the centrality of knowledge gained by spells in the centrality of headquarters postings . |
| 18 | Anyone with a history of injuries ( or if you have already been skiing and suffered one ) will benefit from a session on their Cybex analysis machine ( £30 ) which sagely tests joint and muscular strength at different resistances . |
| 19 | Portable models could be hung from a ring on the rim so that the datum line was horizontal . |
| 20 | One comment came from a councillor on the Social Services Committee , Jim Haggerty : |
| 21 | Water came from a pump on deck and many families had to also cook their own meals on deck . |
| 22 | They all came from a raid on a house in Oxford . |
| 23 | It is our intention to explore the hypothesis that public perceptions of marriage have shifted from an emphasis on its public/institutional to its private/relational aspects . |
| 24 | It was a new Fender Strat , bought from a shop on Shaftsbury Avenue in February ‘ 62 , and yes , I wish I still had it , but only to sell it for the large sums they fetch now ! |
| 25 | He shrugs on his dressing-gown , which hangs from a hook on the bathroom door , switches off the light , and softly re-enters the dimly lit bedroom . |
| 26 | In the PGA Championship at Inverness , he was four strokes in front of Bob Tway with only nine holes to play — and still lost , Tway holing from a bunker on the final green for a birdie . |
| 27 | If no paper is produced from a thesis on a particular area , it is often other students who are most inconvenienced , rather than the Survey , who have a network of university contacts , and good inter-library loan facilities . |
| 28 | But all this is hindsight : it is a series of thoughts and feelings which sprang from a visit on a painful occasion ( my mother 's funeral ) , and not from my childhood experience of childhood itself . |
| 29 | The area can be reached from a junction on the Mallaig road at Loch Ailort on a delightful coastal journey with glorious views seawards and lovely sandy beaches , then crossing the Moidart peninsula to arrive at the village of Acharacle . |
| 30 | He snatched the trousers and sweater that hung from a hanger on the wall , and threw them at her , the gesture violent . |