Example sentences of "[adv prt] from [noun] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of April the average price of a basket of seven crudes monitored by OPEC was $15.37 per 42-gallon ( 184-litre ) barrel , down from $17.12 a barrel at the beginning of the month . |
| 2 | When Mary came in from work the day after the row she told Mum that she and Albert had had a talk and that she was going to stay with his parents for a bit while Albert sorted out a house and furniture and the paraphernalia of married life . |
| 3 | I 'd been fast asleep when he 'd come in from work the night before . |
| 4 | As he was a very intellectual artist , he was the ideal figure to take over from Metzinger the task of transmitting the principles of Cubism to the other painters ; and since he joined the group at a moment when the movement was striving for greater definition , his influence and importance can not be overestimated . |
| 5 | Owen took over from cartographers the convention that where outlines are unknown one should just dot them in ; so his pictures of fossil bones show conjectural restoration of broken or lost pieces . |
| 6 | This is all going to cut you off from London a bit , but I do n't see that there 's really any other way at the moment . ’ |
| 7 | As I am preparing to set off from Oxford a copy of a fax arrives from the production office . |
| 8 | The aircraft was in service with the Royal Navy until 1986 , and after last minute engine and radio checks , the plane took off from Staverton an hour ago , with two pilots and an engineer on board . |
| 9 | One day on the weary way up from school a truck stacked with furniture ground past Martha ; when she reached Nana 's house she found the truck stopped in the overgrown yard next door , and a fat woman in a pink dress buying soda pop for a brood of children who stood around her looking fearfully at their new home . |
| 10 | The more , er er sophisticated erm wholesale er distributors now know that people just pick up from stock a box do n't they ? |
| 11 | Business prepares to bounce back from recession The nation is feeling positive despite some hard times , reports JOHN GREENLEES |
| 12 | Some years later , we are told , travellers brought back from Italy an account of the saint 's life , about which nothing had been known previously . |
| 13 | He was once credited with bringing back from Sweden the secret of how the mill worked , which he discovered while disguised as a wandering fiddler ( hence the nickname , ‘ Fiddler ’ Foley ) ; but it now seems clear that the first slitting mill in England was set up at Dartford , Kent , in 1590 . |
| 14 | And it had been on his drive back from Bramshill a week later that he had turned on his radio and heard the news of Berowne 's resignation of his ministerial post . |
| 15 | I got back from Colchester the day we were so she said , looked at it , is a ten pounds or a hundred pounds . |
| 16 | The young woman back from Libya an example . |