Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The discovery , in 1945 by Brotzu in Sardinia , of antibiotic activity in a species of Cephalosporium recovered from the sea near a sewage outfall was brought to Florey 's attention by a former British public health officer and led to work at Oxford and elsewhere on this and similar organisms . |
| 2 | Moodie led from the start and never looked like being caught even though late in the race Joey Dunlop put in a spurt and was in second place with one lap to go . |
| 3 | Miss Honey asked from the head of the table . |
| 4 | Only when Mr Trout and his associate , Mr Alan Abel received the accolade of an interview with America 's top television journalist , Walter Cronkite , did SINA disappear from the limelight . |
| 5 | Marcus shouted from the doorway in that distinctly unfriendly tone of his and clapped his hands hard . |
| 6 | As soon as our visitors had gone , Holmes changed from the talker to the man of action . |
| 7 | McMaster moved from the seaside to take up a new teaching post in Drumahoe near Londonderry last week , and decided to make the break with the club he has served so well for a decade . |
| 8 | Hector whispered from the bed . |
| 9 | ‘ My husband is a man , ’ Emilia interrupted from the impatience of her pain , ‘ with a man 's insensitivities . ’ |
| 10 | The bad feelings turned to relief , and a degree of comfort , when , after a moment 's pause , she heard Johnny answer from the kitchen . |
| 11 | This is an interesting remark , because the British edition of Lucy differs from the American in key passages that deal with Kalb and officialdom . |
| 12 | This time Paisley led from the front . |
| 13 | Travis asked from the fire , where he was setting up a pan of water . |
| 14 | Rex gazed from the window . |
| 15 | When , during a home game in February 1927 , Hardy shouted from the touchline to a player to move up-field , Chapman chose to regard it as a breach of his authority and arranged for Hardy to move to Tottenham , where a vacancy had conveniently arisen . |
| 16 | Millie rose from the stool and , looking at her prospective and harassed mistress , she said , ‘ Oh , it 's all right . |
| 17 | Jean fled from the room . |
| 18 | He then requested Lucy and Jean to come from the kitchen , and , standing between them , he placed an arm round their shoulders as he said , ‘ This is Lucy and Jean , who have attended to your refreshments on behalf of Stella , my hostess , who is indisposed . |
| 19 | Fairfax climbs from the plane and walks , surrounded by the tall warriors , across the darkening savannah to the laibon 's manyatta . |
| 20 | She knew that Richard came from the castle and understood that his family was the family to which all the others deferred , but now instead of intimidating her Richard 's status seemed to impart a sense of protection . |
| 21 | Biggins scored from the penalty spot after only 10 minutes and added another soon after before Mark Stein completed the scoring . |
| 22 | The boy Crinan and Lulach strolled from the table together . |
| 23 | Like the Armagnacs , the Albret profited from the rise of the de Goth family and its branches to a place in the sun under Clement V. Between 1305 and 1314 there are fifty references to Amanieu VII d'Albret in the papal registers : he received appointments as papal vicar in Italy and as a nuncio , although he was a layman , to England . |
| 24 | KGB troops loyal to Nabiyev fired from the building at the demonstrators , causing up to 20 deaths . |
| 25 | After Hannele had gone from view , Edward turned from the window and surveyed the bed . |
| 26 | Two of the members , trumpeter Bryan Allen and horn player Stephen Roberts graduated from the University Music Department in 1980 , Stephen Roberts having previously studied at the Royal College of Music and held orchestral positions with the BBC . |
| 27 | Originally conceived as the joint Gabcikovo-Nagymáros project under a 1977 agreement , work on the dam was suspended after Hungary withdrew from the scheme in 1989 [ see p. 37048 ] . |
| 28 | Lucy turned from the mirror . |
| 29 | This brought one of Neil 's cracks of laughter and the comment , ‘ A wily gent , I see , ’ and then silence took over again , and lasted for a long time , until the front door opened , and Matey returned from the sewing circle at St Jude 's Church Hall , and stared at them , sitting there in the dusk , hunched over the board , rapt . |
| 30 | Before he fired the man , Judge Shindler heard from the rest of the jury that the wayward juror had DRUNK and SWORN during the trial and DISTRACTED them while they tried to listen to the evidence . |