Example sentences of "[adv prt] from [noun prp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had come down from Oxford a few months ago obsessed with the idea of social service . |
| 2 | Kate 's family came over from Ireland a long time ago and their closest contact to the soil is the odd spot of weekend gardening , but Kate associates closely with the dispossessed peasantry of old Ireland , and anywhere else for that matter , and taters brings out the culchie in her . |
| 3 | John Morrison , the Chairman of the 1922 Committee , rang me up from Islay the next morning . |
| 4 | Six kilometres ( 4 miles ) on from Schwanden the main valley road reaches the cantonal capital , also named Glarus , set at the foot of 2,331m ( 7,646ft ) high Glarnisch . |
| 5 | The further out from York the new settlement goes the less self contained it will be , the more the tendency will be for travel into the city , which is the main service centre to be car based . |
| 6 | Dalian , who has scored in 12 of the 22 Villa games he has played in this season , explained : ‘ When I came back from Spain a big adjustment had to be made . |
| 7 | Dalian , who has scored in 12 of the 22 Villa games he has played in this season , explained : ‘ When I came back from Spain a big adjustment had to be made . |
| 8 | ‘ Madge brought the material back from Vienna the last time she went on a buying trip — it is not part of the Luxembourg budget , I hasten to add and , wonderful creature that she is , she threw it together on an evening when Wardrobe were n't using one of their machines . ’ |
| 9 | When he had come back from Grasmere the first thing he had done — despite George Wood 's vehement protests — was to pay back the loan and bring his hotel bill up to the mark . |