Example sentences of "a few [noun] from [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only sources so far identified in Europe comprise a few boulders from Piedmont and Switzerland . |
| 2 | She recognised a few faces from Amelia 's party , but most of the dead people were strangers . |
| 3 | The old Minpin climbed out of his window and walked straight down the big steeply sloping branch , then up another branch until he found a place only a few inches from Little Billy 's face . |
| 4 | Conning a few pounds from Mr Yarrow and walking the streets held little appeal . |
| 5 | Except for a few letters from Helen to Jane Aldis , there is nothing until January 1897 . |
| 6 | They pinch most of what they say from the student press in America and throw in a few tags from Colonel Ojukwu . |
| 7 | I did , however , aim at gathering a few hints from Italy , such as the pillar-mullion , the use of differently coloured materials , and of inlaying . |
| 8 | Pablo Escobar , the leader of the Medellín drug cartel , escaped from La Catedral prison in Envigado , a few kilometres from Medellín , on July 22 as an attempt was made to transfer him to an army barracks . |
| 9 | These include Buckle Island , just off the Antarctic coast , and Mts Erebus and Terror , only a few kilometres from Scott 's original base camp , from which he set out on his last heroic journey . |
| 10 | In the hamlet of Bailly , a few kilometres from Chablis but outside that appellation , caves that were quarried to provide stone to build the Panthéon in Paris now make impeccable cellars for maturing sparkling wine . |
| 11 | And there had been a few lines from Ellen , proving that Oreste so far from being carried to heaven by an angel was firmly rooted in East Retford and had grown another two inches . |
| 12 | felt too tired to drive me on to ESF 's house , so I got there by bus , or rather by two buses ( an easy change ) , the first starting from about a hundred yards from and the other stopping just behind the Zoo by Primrose Hill and only a few minutes from Eduardo . |
| 13 | Anyhow , he got a few horses from Besthorpe Hall , and one or two of the little farms ; and he jogged along until the time came when Mr Flowerdew came into Diss on a market day , and he saw my grandfather . |
| 14 | We envisage that the path would be mainly used for recreational cycling at weekends and by touring cyclists during the season , but it is also possible that a few commuters from Kirkliston would use it during the week . |
| 15 | We envisage that the path would be mainly used for recreational cycling at weekends and by touring cyclists during the season , but it is also possible that a few commuters from Kirkliston would use it during the week . |
| 16 | Dismayed at the pain he had inflicted and at the pain he himself felt in consequence , Richard rushed forward , then stopped a few feet from Victoria twisting from side to side in frustration , wondering how he could stop her crying . |
| 17 | Half way to the door I swivelled and , as if simply following the script of this particular hangover , strolled back to the table and came to a halt with my hands in my pockets a few feet from Davis 's chair . |
| 18 | The other humans said something , and the box was cautiously put down on the gravel a few feet from Masklin . |
| 19 | A few words from Leeson 's letter drifted into his mind — a girl 's clothes left at the studio — what girl ? |
| 20 | On the teletext today it had a few words from Fergie saying that he reckoned that the no. of points they need to win the league is 84 . |
| 21 | At the same time they might even pick up a few tips from Waqar Younis and Wasim Akram instead of trying to put them down . |
| 22 | One meeting of particular significance was with a young dissenting bookseller called Joseph Cottle , whose shop stood at the corner of Corn Street and High Street , a few yards from Southey 's birthplace . |
| 23 | Recently my own son was attacked a few yards from Princes Street . |
| 24 | There were a few flashes from Joey Beauchamp , but no goals from anyone . |
| 25 | A few extracts from Val 's letter will quickly indicate the problem : |
| 26 | the ending may seem quite unconvincing , with the prospect of their marriage , but there are a few clues from Pip 's first meeting with her till then that may suggest some development . |
| 27 | yeah , well let me just read you two or three verses from Exodus , chapter forty , this is what it says then the cloud covered the tent of meeting and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle and Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had settled on it and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle and throughout all their journeys whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle the sons of Israel would set out , but if the cloud was not taken up then they did not set out until the day that it was taken up , for throughout all their journeys the cloud of the Lord was on the tabernacle by day and there was fire in it by night , in the sight of all the house in Israel and if you were to turn over to kings you 've got a , you 've got a similar thing there with the dedication of the temple and as Be Ben was saying the power really it 's the it 's the presence of God , the shine , the glory , that cloud of , and so what , what , what catches the Lord Jesus up is really the glory of God here he is , the , the riseness , the glorified Christ being called up into heaven in the , in the glory , what he 's been glorified , so he withdraws his physical , physical presence from one place here on earth to present there on the throne and yet by the holy spirit to be every where now Jesus then , he did n't cease to be truly man at either his resurrection or at his ascension , he stays man , God , the God man all the way through and it 's still true today he is the God man today and that 's important for you and me , think of the very worse experience that you have ever had in your life , think of the very worse experience that could happen to you , with the exception of you know that of , of say total failure of some awful sin , the worse thing , maybe a loss of someone dear to you , someone very close to you , er , er , a bereavement , the most awful experience you have had well he has gone through , he has known that experience , he has , has tempted in all points like as we are he knows our frame , he remembers were dust and he has been there and it is a man who has experienced those same experiences that you and I experience day by day , year after year , it is a man who has gone that , who has walked that path , who is in heaven interceding and praying for us , we 'll stop there cos time has gone erm we 'll stop there , we wo n't go on otherwise I 'll get into trouble During this past month some of the questions in the New Testament , the first one we looked at you remember was that question that Jesus asked of his disciples , do you believe that I am able to do this , then we looked at a question which the disciples asked of Jesus , why could we not cast it out last week we looked at another question , are only a few people going to be saved and this morning I 'd like us it 's the final one of these questions not that there are n't other questions in the New Testament and scores , scores of others but were just looking at four er throughout this month , I 'd like us to look this morning for one at , for a few minutes , at one that Jesus asked of a man who confronted him , I 'd like to read a few verses from Luke chapter eighteen , Luke chapter eighteen I 'm gon na read from verse thirty five , it 's the well known account of blind Bartimaeus , Luke chapter eighteen and verse thirty five and he came about that as Jesus was approaching Jericho a certain blind man was sitting by the road begging , now hearing a multitude going by he began to inquire |
| 28 | And there are fears of development in the parkland of redundant Poole Hospital , just a few fields from Roseberry Topping . |
| 29 | Cerveteri is built near the extensive necropolis which served the Etruscan city of Caere , one of their largest towns , near the sea and only a few miles from Rome . |
| 30 | Fortunately , in 1749 , it was recorded in the form Abotsbery Land and was shown subsequently to belong to the poor lands charity of Abbotsbury , a few miles from Weymouth in Dorset . |