Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The settlement does not , however , protect E&Y from civil suits filed by former investors in S&Ls — the $63m it paid in connection with Lincoln arose from a civil suit . |
| 2 | His grandparents used to be Gypsies and Jon realised from an early age that he would like to follow in their footsteps . |
| 3 | Harry Pascoe shouted from the far end of the room , and young Jan Lanyon , who sailed with him , put up his firsts and echoed : Aye — just let 'em try ! " |
| 4 | Mr Angell responded that it would not be feasible for Moscow to leap from the present unconvertible rouble to the complex Western system of floating exchange rates , or to a dollar or yen-backed rouble . |
| 5 | The Masai moved from the great river of the north , freely interpreted as the Nile , says the professor in a note , down towards their present location . |
| 6 | Then she lit him up the stairs , and went before him into the panelled solar , where Rhodri rose from a tall chair by the fire to receive him . |
| 7 | David Platt 's Juventus recovered from a bad defeat at Inter last week by thrashing Ancona 5–1 to move into fourth place . |
| 8 | In Edna O'Brien 's A Pagan Place , which followed Veterans at the Royal Court in 1972 , Eyre drew from a 16-year-old school girl called Veronica Quilligan , who had never acted before , a performance of exquisite subtlety and emotional truth . |
| 9 | The USSR became India 's main external source of weaponry and rendered extensive economic aid ; Soviet support was in part a response to the support that Pakistan received from the Chinese , with whom the Indians had an unresolved border dispute . |
| 10 | Thus Barbarossa came from a noble family , with a background that suited him to his eventual imperial career . |
| 11 | The upkeep of such a house would require a substantial income , she thought to herself ; she remembered that Veronica came from a wealthy family . |
| 12 | Prick 'd from the lazy finger of a maid ; |
| 13 | Molly toppled from the tall boy 's foot and collapsed on to the floor . |
| 14 | Barratt came from an old mining family and indeed , had been captain at Wheal Friendship , on Dartmoor , where his father , for years , had been manager . |
| 15 | Gregory came from the same aristocratic milieu as Sidonius and his followers . |
| 16 | Bernice woke from a strange dream in which the Doctor was mashing potatoes before a crowd of derisively laughing robots . |
| 17 | Mr Hutchinson said he saw Mr Deacon emerge from a back door . |
| 18 | Taylor may recall that Gazza returned from a double-hernia operation to win a high-tension match for Spurs at Wembley inside the first 15 minutes . |
| 19 | But neither of them saw Captain Meredith coming from the opposite direction on his way to visit Lawyer Loveitt , and he failed to see them as he crossed into Frog Lane seconds after they had left it . |
| 20 | Leicester seemed out of it but remarkably seconds before the break Lee Philpott crossed from the left and found stand-in striker Steve Walsh who headed in his 7th goal in as many games since moving up front . |
| 21 | As his principal example ( to which the effacement of the jongleur persona could be added ) he noted the removal of deliberate and witty echoes of the characteristic diction of the Breton lay from the French version of Le Chevalier qui fist parler les cons : the fairy lande disappears in the Anglo-Norman version , the magic don , " gift " , becomes a mundane guerdon , " reward " , and the fées , " fairies " , become desmoisselles . |
| 22 | Chris Waddle moves from the right flank to the vacancy on the left caused by John Barnes 's withdrawal and David Rocastle takes over on the right . |
| 23 | 65th minute : Ian Wright emerged from an innocuous challenge with Howells and clouted the Spurs man . |
| 24 | Shiona gasped from the sheer extravagance of the sensations shooting through her . |
| 25 | Dr Murdoch resigned from the British Medical Association over its attitude to the Arthur case , but criticism has also come from within the BMA . |
| 26 | Rodomonte emerged from the glowing tunnel into a dimly lit passageway . |
| 27 | With Paul Baker and Andy Saville out for the season , Pool hope Johnrose recovers from a sprained wrist before tomorrow 's game at Leyton Orient . |
| 28 | Floodlighting reflected from the silvery burnt umber cladding of the walls as though ice-ghosts danced there , and set the green columns aglow . |
| 29 | Women lawyers are challenging the chauvinism which bans them from the higher echelons , reports Fiona Sutherland Omitted from the useful introductions to clients , business lunches , meetings and golfing sessions , women solicitors fail to acquire the vital ‘ client base . ’ |
| 30 | The famous Botany Bay cover of east Leicestershire dates from the 1790s , when the convict settlement was in the news . |