Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] from [noun prp] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | His debut had been The Subject Was Roses for MGM in 1968 , the film of the Frank D. Gilroy play which , along with a plum Broadway role , was plucked away from Dustin by a pyrotechnical fondue pot . |
| 2 | Two other drugs were introduced in the sixteenth century , ‘ China root ’ , an extract of Smilax sinensis , which was brought over from Goa by the Portuguese , and sarsaparilla from Sassafras officinale , an American plant . |
| 3 | Wordsworth arrived almost at once , and by 2 July Dorothy had also reached Lime Street , after being driven up from Dorset by Coleridge himself ‘ over forty miles of execrable road ’ . |
| 4 | Nor have the Government responded to reports in Conservative newspapers such as The Times and The Sunday Times which were apparently augmented by evidence brought back from Iraq by United Nations inspectors , and the details of which were plastered all over those newspapers . |
| 5 | After the fourth and last bottle of raksi had been drunk , Śa kar got out the double-ended drum brought back from India by his grandfather many years ago . |
| 6 | Although the railways were crucial to tea-growing and marketing from Ceylon — because of the absence of other suitable forms of transportation — tea was successfully brought out from Assam by elephant , ‘ country boat ’ , and steamer for several decades before the arrival of the railway . |
| 7 | One favourite story is that they were brought there from Japan by Phoenician traders thousands of years ago . |
| 8 | ‘ Was there never sign of a boat having put over from Parfois by night ? |
| 9 | The Trade and Shipping portfolio was taken over from Nordboe by Björn Tore Godal , leader of the Storting 's standing committee on foreign affairs , while Sandman 's portfolio , Children 's and Family Affairs , went to Grete Berget , a close personal adviser to Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland . |
| 10 | They had been sent on from Sydney by their nephew Henry , who had left for Australia a few weeks earlier to live with his uncle , Stephen Coxen , at Yarrundi in New South Wales . |