Example sentences of "[vb pp] from [noun] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The position is different where the employer advances to a plaintiff who is incapacitated from work a sum equivalent to his usual earnings upon the understanding that such sum should be repaid to the employer in the event of the plaintiff successfully suing the author of his injuries . |
| 2 | ( 6 ) In August 1983 the third defendant claimed from C.M.C. a commission of £16,000 for himself and £8,000 for Highdene in respect of certain commercial arrangements , not involving the bakery , negotiated between C.M.C. and B.M.T. It is said that this claim led the other directors of C.M.C. to investigate the third defendant 's activities and to dismiss him as a director of C.M.C. ( 7 ) Between May and July 1983 the third defendant caused the first plaintiff to sign in blank some cheques drawn on C.M.C. 's bank account by fraudulently representing that these cheques would be used to pay small and urgent bills of C.M.C. It is said that in fact the third defendant used six of these cheques to pay to himself and certain other parties sums amounting to about £30,000 , allegedly in connection with the financing of the centre . |
| 3 | This includes a £13m provision ‘ against the potential losses that might arise ’ from its one-fifth holding in Drayton , whose shares have slumped from 409p a year ago to 176p . |
| 4 | Several concessions have also been made in relation to capital gains tax : the amount of gain allowed tax free has risen from £1,000 a year to £5,000 a year and this allowance now applies to all gains , not just small gains as was formerly the case . |
| 5 | On a 25-year traditional with-profits endowment policy taken out by a man aged 29 with monthly premiums of £30 , the maturity pay-out has fallen from £61,505 a year ago to £58,754 now . |
| 6 | Unwilling admiration wrung from Jess a kind of exasperated protectiveness , as if she was the mistress and Miss Phoebe in her care . |
| 7 | Compared with 1990 our bank interest received has reduced from £450,000 a year to approximately £150,000 . ’ |
| 8 | It would have demanded from Toby a display of powers he was by no means sure he possessed to prevent Pickerage going off with Hilary Frome . |
| 9 | The curtains , adapted from bedouin tent-hangings , were brought from Tunisia a century ago . |
| 10 | These do not exist in the hops and must be converted from precursor a acids which are present by an extended period of boiling . |
| 11 | The fines on non-attendance at church were increased from 12d a week to £20 a month , although it would have been a courageous churchwarden who presented the local landlord to account for Popish practices . |
| 12 | On his appointment , the wages were increased from £90,000 a year — which he thought was a poor salary — to £220,000 a year . |
| 13 | Typical are those cast-iron Victorian acorn-headed coat hooks which have been revived from moulds a century old . |
| 14 | Aethelheard , abbot of Louth in Lindsey , who became archbishop of Canterbury in 792 , may have been seen in Kent as a ‘ symbol of Mercian rule ’ , but he appears to have obtained from Offa a confirmation of the immunity of Kentish churches ( CS 848 : S 134 ) 52 and he presided without Hygeberht over a synod at London attended by most of the bishops of southern England ( CS 265 : S 132 ) . |
| 15 | If this seems unlikely , it is recorded that , in January and February 1887 , a Croatian minstrel recited from memory a series of lays amounting to twice the combined length of the Iliad and the Odyssey ( Thomson 1949 , p. 529 ) . |
| 16 | Over the past 12 months the price of lower medium quality tea , which is the main ingredient in the British cuppa and imparts that unique lorry-driver flavour , has almost doubled from 78p a kilogramme to 135p . |
| 17 | ‘ Your father had only qualified from Edinburgh a couple of years before . |
| 18 | In any case , the majority of senior officials , as well as the Tsar himself , had imbibed from childhood a sense of personal and national honour inextricably bound up with Russia 's military might and international status . |