Example sentences of "[adv prt] from [noun] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I 'd been fast asleep when he 'd come in from work the night before . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Business prepares to bounce back from recession The nation is feeling positive despite some hard times , reports JOHN GREENLEES |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I got back from Colchester the day we were so she said , looked at it , is a ten pounds or a hundred pounds . |