Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A single horseman approached Charleroi from the west . |
| 2 | This was how I regarded Dana from the start . |
| 3 | The road-builders , moving ahead of the woodcutters , approached Swinbrook from the direction of Leafield . |
| 4 | ‘ How long ? ’ shouted Billie from the rear , loud enough to be heard over the roar of the two-hundred horsepower engine . |
| 5 | Two weeks later , Henry changed his will and excluded Gardiner from the regency council which had been appointed to rule during the minority of his son . |
| 6 | Soon I came to a strange place where the river divided , one part of it compressed as a hurling white torrent between steep artificial banks , the other part let into a tranquil canal that entered Galway from the countryside . |
| 7 | They beat Southampton from the premiership in the second round and have now forced a replay in their third round tie against Blackburn Rovers . |
| 8 | They eventually approached Berwick from the north-west , rounding the skirts of Halidon Hill , and from there able to look down on the grey town at the wide mouth of Tweed , two miles off . |
| 9 | Photographer and ex-model Corinne Day , who championed Kate from the outset , agrees . |
| 10 | Approaching from Shurton and Stogursey , Henry Poole and his companions probably entered Stowey from the north . |
| 11 | This does not preclude the possibility that the Woodvilles turned against their former ally in 1483 and cynically excluded Gloucester from the protectorship in order to secure more power for themselves . |
| 12 | This does not preclude the possibility that the Woodvilles turned against their former ally in 1483 and cynically excluded Gloucester from the protectorship in order to secure more power for themselves . |
| 13 | ‘ For Christ 's sake , get away from there , Cardiff ! ’ shouted Jimmy from the landing , the voices of Duvall and Barbara joining in frantic chorus . |
| 14 | ‘ Connie , ’ implored Scarlet from the street . |
| 15 | Turn round ! girl , ’ and swung her round by the shoulders , and while holding her with one hand she ripped the pieces of tape from the end of each plait , before she tore at the hair until it hung in uneven strands ; then she almost lifted Millie from the floor as , using both hands now , she drew the strands together and began forming them into a tight rope-like plait . |
| 16 | Furthermore , it was Victor IV who drove Alexander from the city of Rome , represented by Boso as the true pope 's " kingdom " . |
| 17 | As she ate Maltesers from the box on her knee , apparently engrossed in the antics of Mickey Mouse , Donald Duck or pluto her left hand seemed not to know what her right was doing . |
| 18 | Both areas , breaking and mending , engrossed Dostoevsky from the time when the shared convict existence of prison snapped him like a dry biscuit yet also made him new , so that in the closing words of The House of the Dead , with the knocking off of his fetters , the narrator greets ‘ a new life , voskresenie from the dead ’ . |
| 19 | Wolff Olins handled the corporate identity strategy last year , which dropped Trusthouse from the company 's name . |
| 20 | As a mass medium nationally it achieved full status only in 1959 when it started printing in London , dropped Manchester from the mast-head and was distributed nationally like the other Fleet Street dailies . |
| 21 | It immediately distinguished Britain from the rest of Western Europe , especially as nuclear facilities were being created almost from the outset . |
| 22 | You would , ’ muttered April from the sink where she was peeling potatoes . |
| 23 | Wolfe led his troops up the cliffs on to the Plains of Abraham which commanded Quebec from the west , and so there emerged the unusual sight of infantry lined up in the formal European manner on North American soil . |
| 24 | ( Nevertheless , because of the high cost of litigation , the company withdrew Bendectin from the market in 1983 , leaving women to rely on old-fashioned remedies to prevent what is , in some instances , a serious complication of pregnancy . ) |
| 25 | ON THIS DAY : In 1810 , Britain captured Mauritius from the French . |
| 26 | The rise of Islam in the middle of the seventh century isolated Abyssinia from the rest of the Christian world . |
| 27 | They ran for a doctor , fetched Joe from the pub , |
| 28 | She withdrew Jeremy from the school in January 1986 and launched legal proceedings , claiming breaches of the Human Rights Convention which safeguards against ‘ inhuman or degrading ’ treatment and protects ‘ the right to respect for private and family life ’ . |
| 29 | She withdrew Jeremy from the school in January 1986 and began legal proceedings , claiming breaches of the European Convention on Human Rights which safeguards against inhuman or degrading treatment and protects the ‘ right to respect for private and family life ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ You speak English ? ’ asked Adam from the settee as he watched the waiter . |