Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] from a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They brought in this computerised call system which meant I took all my calls from a computer [ thumps dashboard ] here . |
| 2 | I 'll tear my robe from a tiger spine |
| 3 | I do n't want it poured over my head from a bucket in a comic that only appeals to the most basic and obvious , nor do I want to read the photo-copied scribblings of an undergrown fifth-former . |
| 4 | It is in this way that Foucault can return to the possibility of doing historical work that has political force through his notion of genealogy , which means , as he puts it , ‘ that I begin my analysis from a question posed in the present ’ . |
| 5 | I took my Sony from a drawer , slotted a tape in and pressed the record button . |
| 6 | ‘ As I have just explained to Mr Leland , I returned to my hotel from a dinner engagement and discovered the flowers I had earlier ordered to be delivered here for Nurse Dungarvan and Nurse Yates had , by some misdirection , been left at my hotel . |
| 7 | I made this round trip between church and house three times and settled in the end for slaking my thirst from a tap in the churchyard . |
| 8 | I am drinking my coffee from a tin mug , bacon frying in the pan and scenting the air , and toasting a large slice of bread on a fork , as the bee-eaters begin their busy day and the vervet monkeys start to squabble . |
| 9 | Advertisements were placed in the International Herald Tribune , the Washington Post and the New York Times at the end of January , purporting to announce that several well-known figures were withdrawing their support from a campaign backed by the human rights organization Amnesty International for the release from prison of Mohammed al-Fassi . |
| 10 | We knew of its existence from a photograph taken in the 1850s , but it has been missing for 150 years . |
| 11 | Marianne Farningham , religious journalist , learnt her faith from a papermaker Baptist grandfather , ‘ a preacher of great force ’ , who would sit ‘ in our kitchen , talking with some friend , each smoking a long clay pipe , and with a glass of home-brewed beer on the table ’ , debating ‘ on high themes , of Calvinistic doctrine and the heresies of Arminianism . ’ |
| 12 | British servicemen have spent more than five hours on the vessel , the Tadma , after absailing onto its deck from a Lynx helicopter . |
| 13 | There were only shelves and drawers in the Nannie cupboard , so she was obliged to hang it by the loops of its sash from a hook on the back of the door . |
| 14 | A manually-produced map can not be easily changed , whereas a computer-drawn map takes its data from a database ( as described in Section 2.4 ) ; this database can be readily edited and updated when new information becomes available , or amended when information becomes out of date , and a new map can then be automatically redrawn . |
| 15 | In such conditions what is needed is something which will fill the hunger gap quickly and with as little movement as possible — when passing food through the little Niagara Falls running off the hood of my waterproof — deeply envied those astronauts who can squeeze a whole meal into their mouth from a plastic ‘ toothpaste ’ tube . |
| 16 | Korolev 's role as head of the gallery was subject to further scrutiny following the highly embarrassing theft of eighteen of its pictures from a loan exhibition at the Villa Croce , Genoa , in 1991 . |
| 17 | Tape speed is fixed to run at 3 ¾ips , which is twice normal cassette speed , but by engaging the tape speed select switch it can be altered to run up to 20% faster or slower , or take its speed from a SMPTE controller . |
| 18 | Friends of the Earth has persuaded Lloyds , Midland and Nat West Banks to re-direct their funds from a $600 million loan for destructive development projects in Amazonia ; |
| 19 | Kinlochleven must be classed as an industrial community because of the aluminium works , a vast complex that provides the main source of employment and was the cause of its emancipation from a village . |
| 20 | At first , though , you may well have to encourage your dog to alter its posture from a sitting to a lying position . |
| 21 | They passed a counter above which hung trusses of pigeons , pheasants and other less identifiable but more disturbing birds ; Helen grabbed Edward 's arm to hurry him on but he was already gazing at a row of hares suspended by their feet from a rack . |
| 22 | When his character leaps at Eileen after taking her home from a jazz club , he starts a chain reaction involving a dog , all the cats in the district , crying babies , shouting neighbours and the sound of breaking glass . |
| 23 | And he adds , ‘ I cut a picture of her marriage from a newspaper and carried it with me all my life , through all my moves and all my travels . ’ |
| 24 | But still the Peace People , or The Community of the Peace People , to give it its full title , continues its work from a base on the Lisburn Road in south Belfast . |
| 25 | This was reorganised and changed its title in the following year , and again in May 1918 : like its British counterparts it drew its manpower from a variety of sources — the universities , the army and the professions — as well as from diplomacy . |
| 26 | Nutritionists and food industry representatives were invited to take their pick from a menu which boasted less fat and more fruit , vegetables and cereals , particularly wholemeal bread . |
| 27 | After 30 minutes , Chiddingfold were level , 'Mill failed to clear their lines from a free-kick and a low drive took a double deflection off Peter Daynes and Peter Boxall to leave 'keeper Peter Liles stranded . |
| 28 | Greenpeace subsequently announced that it would withdraw its team from a research base on Ross Island . |
| 29 | Together with Lombard North Central Bank we hope to demonstrate the importance that we both place on lady motorists and of meeting their expectations from a motor dealership . |
| 30 | He wants them small and blonde but also to know their mullet from a mallet . |