Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] from [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before long he was ordered to drive overland from Egypt to Iraq to help crush Rashid Ali , who had decided to join Germany . |
| 2 | ‘ It still leaves the business of you having to come home from Dublin on the bus every night , ’ Eve said . |
| 3 | Our intention was to slide seamlessly from Maureen to Joyce . |
| 4 | The main objective , if they could not in fact capture Balliol , was to frighten him , give him warning to keep away from Scotland in future , and show Dacre and the North of England generally that if they aided Edward Plantagenet , they were vulnerable to dire reprisals . |
| 5 | ( For a more direct line , UK country fans might soon be able to fly non-stop from Stansted to Nashville , if a Tennessee congressman has his way . ) |
| 6 | All jets burn less fuel the higher they go , and in order to fly non-stop from Geneva to Moscow he sacrificed air speed for fuel economy . |
| 7 | Where Mr Winchester 's cross-Pacific connections become less sure is when they become tangible and man-made : the optical-fibre telephone cable that snakes beneath the Pacific from California to Hawaii and then branches out to Japan and Guam ; the AsiaSat satellite and its fellow ‘ birds ’ , sitting on the equator to bounce across Asia the telephone calls of businessmen and the television dramas of Hollywood ; the new Boeing 747–400 , able to fly non-stop from Sydney to Los Angeles ; and , odd as it seems , the Macintosh computer . |
| 8 | The executive council of the self-proclaimed " Serbian Autonomous Region of Krajina " , comprising municipalities in Croatia with a majority Serb population , followed up its March 16 decision to secede unilaterally from Croatia by deciding on April 1 to become part of Serbia . |
| 9 | Certainly if players such as Edberg , involved in the final stages of the Australian Open , felt even remotely like I did after the 31 hours it took me to arrive home from Melbourne before leaving on another seven hour journey to Bayonne less than 24 hours later , then it is no wonder that many of them are unable to do justice either to themselves or their countries in Davis Cup competition , as things stand . |
| 10 | Ok , I see your point now ; - ) Im sure he would nt need to learn much from Wilko at all tactically etc , maybe in the practical aspects of mgt — so I cant see MUCH benefit from sitting next to him in the dug out . |
| 11 | Drew also quite liked an excuse to get away from Sukey on summer evenings . |
| 12 | It was just as good a place as any to get away from Julius for a while . |
| 13 | Some 10 000 years ago , detachments began to move eastward from Asia to North America . |
| 14 | Government forces were also attempting to move southwards from Wau towards Tambura . |
| 15 | Addressing the plenum on July 25 , Gorbachev criticised " the representatives of communist fundamentalism who are unable to escape the grip of dogmatic conceptions " and said that the party had to move away from Marxism-Leninism to " include in our ideological arsenal all the riches of our and the world 's socialist and democratic thought " . |
| 16 | For some time I had wanted to move further from London with its many social distractions , and now with the half million words of notes I had brought back with me from my world tour waiting to be distilled into a book , I felt the need more than ever . |
| 17 | At one point we were going to have to travel straight from Rio to Germany — a technical nightmare with equipment , not to mention the fact that it 's physically shattering . ’ |