Example sentences of "[noun prp] from [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lady du Cann , 47 , who lives with Sir Edward 40 miles away at Wellington , Somerset , inherited 15th-century Athelhampton from her first husband , Sir Robert Cooke . |
| 2 | In May Aboriginal campaigners persuaded Edinburgh University , in Scotland , to return the remains of more than 300 Aborigines from its anthropological collection in order that they could be reburied according to Aboriginal traditions . |
| 3 | The appointment of Sally Coleman to the job of manager of Waterstones at Harrods from her current post running the Covent Garden outpost of the empire has come out of the blue . |
| 4 | Support for Iraq had isolated the PLO from its traditional patrons in the Gulf and Egypt . |
| 5 | My occasional presence at Summerchild 's front gate , keeping Millie from her pious labours on the birthday book and obstructing his view of the cracked step , evidently never reached a sufficient level of generality to impinge upon him . |
| 6 | Italy 's export guarantee agency SACE reportedly agreed to remove Mexico from its high risk list , and had abolished its ceiling on investments there . |
| 7 | It was his declared intention to ‘ rouse Hungary from its Asiatic slumbers ’ . |
| 8 | Turnage has produced a work which is attractive , disturbing and memorable : an impressive curtain-raiser to a three-year association with the CBSO from which more works are destined to flow . |
| 9 | Solenopsis , for instance , releases its trail pheromone from its Pavan 's gland ; Myrmica from its poison gland ; Lasius from its rectal gland . |
| 10 | He only arrived back in England on Tuesday from his sunny Tenerife training camp . |
| 11 | This is the town described in the chapter , ‘ Wayfarers All ’ , in which the adventurous Sea-Rat almost lures away the homely Water-Rat from his beloved river . |
| 12 | Nicu Ceauşescu swaggered around Bucharest from his early teens onwards . |
| 13 | Clearly Soviet oil was an attractive buy for the Cubans : Che Guevara stated that the landed price of Soviet crude was 33 per cent lower than the price at which the majors imported oil to Cuba from their Venezuelan subsidiaries , and the fact that it was a barter deal enabled the revolution to conserve its dwindling hard-currency reserves . |
| 14 | Where Cretan Ida from her snow-flecked peak |
| 15 | This time the news reached Washington from its own sources in London . |
| 16 | In 1863 , in a note written on a rare visit to England from his self-imposed exile in warmer climes , Lear apologises to Gould for not visiting him because , ‘ all my daylight hours have gone in the service of the old Enemy — Lithography . ’ |
| 17 | Reining up , the Regent found himself master of the southern approaches to Berwick , and cutting off Edward of England from his own territories and sources of supply . |
| 18 | He had come to Salzburg from his parental home in Augsburg in 1737 to study at the University with the intention of becoming a priest , but his love of music had led him instead to take up an appointment initially with the Canon of Salzburg before joining the Archbishop 's household . |
| 19 | Animals walked there , the vibration of their passing stirring Tallis from her earthly sleep . |
| 20 | Barnicoats is offering an extra 30 days ' credit on orders exceeding £500 placed in January from its 1993 Travel Catalogue . |
| 21 | Sanjurjo perished at the very outset when the plane taking him back to Spain from his Portuguese exile crashed on take-off . |
| 22 | Do n't you go ! ’ shouted Adam of Rochester from his lonely corner . |
| 23 | Peter McAleer of Ennex told the Sunday Tribune : ‘ When we bought Mogul of Ireland from its previous owners it was on the understanding that they would retain any responsibility for any earlier workings at Silvermines and that includes the tailings pond ’ . |
| 24 | There would n't be any later , unless somehow , at the eleventh hour , I freed Karen from her sterile remorse . |
| 25 | Maddison and Shearer arrived at the Dell from their native north-east at the same time and shared a house when they were virtual unknowns . |
| 26 | Situated on a comer opposite the church , one could survey much of Sasbach from its little courtyard where three tables had been set out under three chestnut trees . |
| 27 | The government is proposing to extend the areas around the Shetland Islands from which loaded oil tankers are banned . |
| 28 | Mrs Phelps looked down at Matilda from her great height and Matilda looked right back up at her . |
| 29 | ‘ There is room for improvement , ’ he says , gazing across the River Thames from his fourth-floor office in London Television Centre . |
| 30 | Fortunately , the recent freeing of the UN from its ideological rancour , which crippled its effectiveness for so long , has now largely ended . |