Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] from [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Nahum came downstairs from Anna 's room , Dolly and Tom had returned home and Christian had joined them from Handley Farm . |
| 2 | Gerald has rung me from East Sheen . |
| 3 | Coun Bob Brady , the council 's housing committee chairman , said : ‘ Financial restrictions have prevented us from building council houses for some time . |
| 4 | Luhti bought the team this year from the Swiss slot-machine magnate Walter Brun , who had bought it from Bernie Ecclestone , the head of the Formula One Constructors ' Association ( Foca ) . |
| 5 | Donna had called them from Jackie Quinn 's house , telling Jackie there was nothing to worry about . |
| 6 | I could never understand why Crusoe left his paradise in the first place ; wild horses would not have dragged me from Juan Fernandez . |
| 7 | It had struck her that perhaps that was where Jake had been going that night he 'd called her from Heathrow Airport — on a secret brief honeymoon with Janice after a quick , quiet register office wedding . |
| 8 | In front of the railway station , a second police car ( summoned by a confident Morse as Lewis had driven him from North Oxford ) was now waiting , and the Chief Inspector nodded a perfunctory greeting to the two detective-constables who sat side by side in the front seats as they watched , and awaited , developments ; watched the three men walk over to the twenty-minute waiting-area set aside for those meeting passengers from British Rail journeys — an area where parking cost nothing at all ; watched them as they passed through that area and walked into the main car-park , with the bold notice affording innocent trespassers the clearest warning : |
| 9 | They 'd have heard it from Mary Donovan . |
| 10 | Today 's photo session may have taken us from dog track to town hall , from tube station to The Longest Market in Britain ( fact ! ) , but the travelling has n't covered the cracks in the area 's cultural structure . |
| 11 | He was one of several men from the Midlands in Palace sides of the early and mid-1920s and had joined us from Coventry City in July 1922 , as part of a complex six-player exchange deal negotiated between the clubs by Palace boss Mr Edmund Goodman . |
| 12 | But I knew the tune before its television debut , having learnt it from William C. Honeyman 's Strathspey , Reel and Hornpipe Tutor . |