Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adv prt] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mika Hakkinen did a superb job for the under-financed Lotus team , the young Finn impressing everyone with his mature and confident approach after stepping up from Formula 3 . |
| 2 | Dawson , who had become a Roman Catholic shortly after going down from Oxford , was an influential member of the group of writers which formed around the new Catholic publishing house of Sheed & Ward from the 1930s . |
| 3 | But after flying back from America with Lewis , he was already making contingency plans for his man being handed the title without throwing a punch . |
| 4 | For that reason , Sir Adrian looks back with gratitude on the job-rotation policy that was an integral part of basic training when he joined the family firm after coming down from Cambridge in 1952 . |
| 5 | ‘ Bangor had a bad run after coming back from Europe — 13 games without a win , ’ he recalls . |
| 6 | After all the criticism of the Tory campaign it was a remarkable achievement for Mr Major 16 months after taking over from Mrs Thatcher when the Tories were 20 points behind in the polls following the poll tax debacle . |
| 7 | Mr Crosby has been at the centre of that romance , reviving the club 's fortunes almost immediately after taking over from Denis Smith at Christmas and then inspiring the sort of Cup run last enjoyed by the passionate Roker supporters in the days of Bob Stokoe . |
| 8 | Frankie Parks is revelling in the manager 's job after taking over from Billy Sinclair in November . |
| 9 | After taking over from Ken Brown in the winter of 1987 he guided the club to unexpected heights . |
| 10 | A NIGERIAN Air Force plane crashed shortly after taking off from Lagos , killing all 163 on board — most of them military officers . |
| 11 | ‘ After taking off from Bermuda , I thought I could catch up on some sleep . |
| 12 | The domestic Burmese flight was hijacked shortly after taking off from Mergui in southern Burma , bound for Rangoon . |
| 13 | There are numerous examples of the poor quality of court-appointed lawyers ; John Young went to his death even though his trial lawyer had signed an affidavit admitting he had been ill-prepared at trial due to drug use , the recent break-up of his marriage and the discovery of his own homosexuality ; another attorney had his breath checked by the judge for signs of alcohol , another was found to be in contempt of court after arriving back from lunch drunk … and so I could go on . |
| 14 | Annie was a great help after finding out from Joe what the young lady 's colouring was . |
| 15 | Perhaps we should think about it , instead of drifting on from day to day . |
| 16 | ‘ It is sort of like a tramp freighter , sort of plodding round from point to point ’ , said the air branch officer ; ‘ and you do n't ask too many questions when you are doing this . ’ |
| 17 | There is a conference centre somewhere out in the wilds of nowhere in Derbyshire which I drove past coming back from Buxton . |
| 18 | Washington insiders believe that she told her husband how she felt and suggested he should use the ‘ excuse ’ of Graves Disease , a condition affecting the heart rhythm which they both suffer from , as a way of standing down from office . |
| 19 | Well , we , we just sort of muddle along from day to day week to week , nobody tells us anything , we just have a guess and usually the guesses are wrong . |
| 20 | The disturbances on the borders of Brecon , whether officially encouraged or not , had grown to such proportions that the King had despatched his brother the Earl of Cornwall to the march in haste to try and suppress them , and was himself in the act of setting out from Windsor to join him there . |
| 21 | There was a very simple , if rather banal , way of spinning off from Surkov 's lost story and Rozanov 's all-but-lost one ; and I would take it . |
| 22 | He slept immediately and deeply , and then got up at six a.m. to turn the television on and make the tea ready for when the man he lived with got in from work . |
| 23 | He was once credited with bringing back from Sweden the secret of how the mill worked , which he discovered while disguised as a wandering fiddler ( hence the nickname , ‘ Fiddler ’ Foley ) ; but it now seems clear that the first slitting mill in England was set up at Dartford , Kent , in 1590 . |
| 24 | Taunton is in good shape with borrowing down from £10.4m to Pounds 1.1m . |
| 25 | Bless her cotton socks for coming back from Spain . |
| 26 | In climbing down from Mount Olympus and passing over these concentric circles , you can imagine you are tracing the path of magma rising at the mid ocean ridges , eventually to spew through vents , producing large quantities of mineral ore . |
| 27 | Buy your ticket before getting on from ticket , rail or post offices . |
| 28 | If he is not the greatest gloveman the game has known , he is a very successful wicket-keeper-batsman ; in his first two Tests in Australia in 1981–2 he appeared solely as a batsman before taking over from David Murray , and by the end of the 1989–90 series he had played in 68 Tests , made 223 dismissals ( a miserly five stumpings tells a sad tale ) and scored almost 3,000 runs at an average of 35 with five centuries . |
| 29 | Much more attention was being devoted to Korea in Washington in March 1947 at a time when the Truman administration was deeply involved in the complex issues inherent in taking over from Britain in handling aid to Greece . |
| 30 | They were so enthusiastic in the demonstration of the primacy of communal property and equality that they had no difficulty in taking in from Morgan much baggage which seems pretty unrelated to their previous concern ; for example , such ideas as matriliny or the significance of kinship terminology . |