Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problems mostly arose from lack of capital and only in a few cases had any action been taken — two had recently purchased houses in nearby villages for their sons and some had been able to purchase or rent some more land . |
| 2 | The keys crashed to the floor next to Gedanken ; the piece of paper followed , slowly fluttering from side to side like a snowflake . |
| 3 | Right turns from Bondgate into Skinnergate will be banned completely . |
| 4 | Right turns from Bondgate into Skinnergate are banned completely . |
| 5 | Egyptian jewellery adorned the statue of Victory long since looted from Tarentum in southern Italy and displayed in the Curia Julia , named after the Julii , Octavian 's family . |
| 6 | Not out of the radio sets themselves , mind you , but — about a month after legalization — he flogged cassette tapes on ‘ How to keep a conversation going on CB ’ , with a follow-up manual listing good ‘ handles ’ ( mostly pinched from Lord of the Rings ) for Citizen Banders with absolutely no imagination . |
| 7 | And in the years of glut there is always a slatted wooden tray in some cool , dark attic , which the writer nervously visits from time to time ; and yes , oh dear , while he 's been hard at work downstairs , up in the attic there are puckering skins , warning spots , a sudden brown collapse and the sprouting of snowflakes . |
| 8 | In the indictment Bunyan was accused , among other things , of ‘ devilishly and perniciously abstaining from coming to Church to hear Divine Service ’ . |
| 9 | Well more misery for Forest another defeat more injuries less to go from strength to strength and we 'll be right back . |
| 10 | In 1754 Ramsay was again in Italy , where he remained for three years , developing the wonderfully delicate style of his maturity , and constantly drawing from life with all the avidity to learn of a student . |
| 11 | Women whose ovaries produce too much suffer from hair on the face and chest , which they find very upsetting . |
| 12 | The music was played by two musicians , Rolande and Ydrys , sitting cross-legged under the cart with a hurdy-gurdy , a reed-pipe , a drum and a shawm , all hidden from sight by a straw bale . |
| 13 | From a three-hour flight , at the outside , when he 'd only flown from London to Helsinki on the last lap ? |
| 14 | The haulier will not necessarily know from week to week what products are to be transported — if any — but must have a range of vehicles available to cover all eventualities . |
| 15 | The strategies naturally varied from case to case , but all addressed the broad goals outlined above and all included a publicity programme of meetings , brochures and media coverage . |
| 16 | In theory , the scheme is meant to help pupils who would otherwise be unable to do so to benefit from education at an independent school , but Janet Finch argues that past experience of the direct grant system ‘ would lead one to suppose that many beneficiaries of such a scheme will be middle-class children ’ .24 In 1986–7 about 24,500 pupils attended independent schools under the Assisted Places Scheme in England alone , and this transferred £43 million of taxpayers ' money to independent schools . |
| 17 | The postponement , decided on Sept. 16 by the presidents of Byelarus , Kazakhstan , Kirgizstan , Russia and Ukraine , apparently stemmed from disagreements between Russia and Ukraine over control of the nuclear weapons stationed in Ukraine . |
| 18 | An all too common kind of crisis for community and primary care teams is that a vulnerable patient is suddenly discharged from hospital on a Friday afternoon without any formal referral or plan for aftercare . |
| 19 | Unlikely as that seems now , it must be remembered that in the early 1970s the private market was in a very bad condition and many developer builders were only rescued from bankruptcy by ‘ package deals ’ under which the DOE gave local authorities special loan sanctions in order to buy in whole estates of unsold private dwellings . |
| 20 | Among them was a young officer who was riding a mule ( which stubbornly stopped from time to time ) and roaring with laughter . |
| 21 | The most famous of all the southern constellations was only separated from Centaurus in 1679 . |
| 22 | ‘ It is an achievement to play games at the moment , as we are literally living from hand to mouth . |
| 23 | For example , a researcher interested in the factors responsible for differing rates of absence from work may well interview groups of workers randomly selected from lists of employees in large factories and small ones , factories which have high or low overall rates of absence , or factories which involve different kinds of production processes . |
| 24 | Five times the size of Rutland , Buckinghamshire shows every symptom of several standards of assessment : numerous reductions in the Chiltern hundreds in 1524 reduced aggregate wealth from £97 to £67 per thousand acres , while in Buckingham hundreds it only dropped from £84 to £59 , but throughout the northern half of the shire many of the 1522 assessments were retained substantially unaltered , conceivably because the people concerned deemed it prudent to keep their mouths shut and pay up ; a significant number were actually uprated , perhaps penalised for having the gall to seek abatements , so attracting a further , more searching investigation of their means . |
| 25 | Any batteries that do not come out should be gently moved from side to side to allow them to unhook . |
| 26 | What could have proved a disastrous appointment did , and Athletico were only saved from oblivion by the inspired choice of Reg Pybus as coach . |
| 27 | Most are malnourished , only saved from starvation by water and food provided en route by the Red Cross . |
| 28 | Griffin O'Neal , 27 , was only saved from jail after 24-year-old Lynn Oddo , the woman he beat up , pleaded with the court for mercy . |
| 29 | It took them five overs to score their first run and they were only saved from disaster by captain Allan Lamb . |
| 30 | His first , 11 weeks after the crash took place on December 20 when he was gently transferred from hospital by ambulance , strapped to a stretcher . |