Example sentences of "[vb pp] from [noun] [noun prp] of " in BNC.

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1 And that the ships had again been delayed : the long-awaited new ships commissioned from King Svein of Denmark , about which King Svein of Denmark had been so apologetic .
2 Trees at Woodhall Terrace A letter was received from M. Walsh of the Urban Forestry Unit offering to plant a genus such as birch or hornbeam .
3 Trees at Woodhall Terrace A letter was received from M. Walsh of the Urban Forestry Unit offering to plant a genus such as birch or hornbeam .
4 Having received from Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle advice that the dismissal was valid , the Lord President of the Council on behalf of Her Majesty dismissed the petition .
5 ( In a letter to the Zoological Society written on 10 May and read out at the scientific meeting in London on 8 October , Gould described 19 new species , 13 of which he stated he had received from Dr Bynoe of the Beagle . )
6 A letter has been received from Elaine Burgess of the Sports Council , which clarifies the status of the R.S.A. Exercise to Music and the Medau teacher qualification .
7 A letter was received from Mrs. Hogan of Brighton asking if she could take over a sixteen-year-old blind boy , Arthur B. Her own son had died the previous year at the same age , and she said that she would ‘ do her best to make the lad happy , and find him light work in Brighton ’ .
8 Little has been heard from Rodney Bickerstaffe of NUPE and Jimmy Knapp of the rail union .
9 Center Parcs , as seen on TV , are based around tropical atmosphere , a swimming pool and futuristic dome , an idea the Dutch seem to have stolen from Jeff Tracy of International Rescue .
10 A possible explanation of this is that Ecgberht was indeed regarded as Ealhmund 's heir and that Ealhmund in turn inherited from King Ecgberht of Kent a local overlordship of south-eastern England which in varying forms had been a recurring feature of historical development in the area since the time of Aethelberht , son of Eormenric .
11 Really , Stuart , I know it 's not everyone who 's descended from King Zog of Albania , but there 's no need to blab the whole story . ’
12 His guiding rule , he tells me , has been taken from St Bernard of Clairvaux : ‘ Notice everything .
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