Example sentences of "from [noun prp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Humber Tavern , built 1808 , was where the landlord used to try to attract visitors from Hull with a bathing machine . |
| 2 | From left : climbing out from Guernsey with a visiting training sailing ship below ; Trislander over Alderney , whose airport may be seen in the background ; the island of Herm on a hazy autumn day , with Sark in the background ; Trislander 's single-pilot-panel — very functional , with mixture knobs oddly set on top |
| 3 | First was Robert Maxwell , who in 1984 achieved his long ambition to play the press baron role and won the Mirror papers from Reed at an acceptable price . |
| 4 | ‘ Ma mother — ‘ she told Jane , ‘ came from Tennessee in a covered wagon . |
| 5 | Unfinished ton and a pair from Murray on a foreign expedition ( 4 ) |
| 6 | Memorex Telex NV has come under the Standard & Poor 's Corp microscope and the ratings agency cut its the rating on its Memorex Telex Corp unit 's $510m 10% guaranteed senior notes due 1998 to B-minus from single-B with a negative rating outlook . |
| 7 | Her parents used to live just inland from Brighton in a converted windmill . |
| 8 | GRAHAM STUART completed a storming second-half fightback from Chelsea with a dramatic late equaliser last night . |
| 9 | The team goes straight from Sheffield to a ten-day training camp in an open air pool at Narbonne , France , to acclimatise for the games . |
| 10 | On that occasion their predicament had been spotted and a boat had been sent out from Sharpness on a wild goose chase . |
| 11 | He flew from Leuchars on a fast , unarmed courier flight , and he flew as a Swedish businessman called Lansen . |
| 12 | On the morning of Good Friday in 1932 , the GWR ran a ‘ Hikers ’ Mystery Express ' from Paddington to an unpublished destination and back . |
| 13 | On September 25 , the Flight had the pleasure of entertaining former Battle of Britain pilot and Lebanese hostage Jackie Mann with a display by Spitfire V AB910 over Lyneham just after his interrupted flight from Syria in a one-legged VC-10 . |
| 14 | Beattie easily got the better of Kevin Schwantz on the second lap , leaving the Lucky Strike Suzuki rider from Texas with a tough job to keep his own team-mate Doug Chandler at bay . |
| 15 | Ten giant squirrels were imported from Indonesia by a British zoo , the animals were stuffed into narrow plastic tubes no bigger than their bodies and stacked in a wooden crate . |
| 16 | Well I , well er I came back to Britain er I , I was er liberated by General Patton in a , a small place called Erfurt I was flown from Erfurt into Cherbourg , and from Cherbourg into a small place called Amersham which was a reception station for prisoners of war , where we were treated er on entering the camp we were handed a telegram . |
| 17 | His debut had been The Subject Was Roses for MGM in 1968 , the film of the Frank D. Gilroy play which , along with a plum Broadway role , was plucked away from Dustin by a pyrotechnical fondue pot . |
| 18 | Mr Major , EC president for 11 more days , has to wrestle with difficult issues like Denmark , which voted against Maastricht in a referendum , and plans from Brussels for a massive increase in spending . |
| 19 | The US vetoed proposals for a substantive conference that would allow regional discussions and negotiations , linking talks of an Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait with an Israeli withdrawal from occupied Arab territory . |
| 20 | There thus was widespread support for Saddam Hussein 's attempt to connect an Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait with an Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories . |
| 21 | And a report that a Polish plane has conducted the first ever direct evacuation from Kuwait of a hundred refugees , have further raised hopes here . |
| 22 | In detail the proposal called on the Iraqi leadership " to announce without further delay Iraq 's intention to withdraw from Kuwait under a specific timetable and to begin an immediate , rapid and massive withdrawal " . |
| 23 | There 's a graduate student at AMS who 's Japanese , over from Osaka on a six-month exchange deal , companionable enough at first , of course , but becoming increasingly glazed and remote . |
| 24 | She went into the hall , glad of anything that would take her mind from Dana for a few minutes . |
| 25 | Another day he was sent from Washington to a Chinese vegetable stand on the Lower West Side in Manhattan , where he was told to ask for a person with the code name ‘ Mooey ’ ; Mooey went behind the counter , rolled up his trouser-leg and pulled out a wad of hundred-dollar bills , which Owen thought ‘ I had better count anyways . ’ |
| 26 | We do not know at what date Matilda had gone to Wilton , but probably she had come from Scotland as a young girl with her aunt Christina in 1086 to be educated at Wilton . |
| 27 | Carruthers was appointed as District Geologist in charge and Dinham was also posted there from Scotland for a few years . |
| 28 | In France , a conspiracy of Calvinists and ‘ political ’ Huguenots against the Guises , which ended with the ‘ Tumult of Amboise ’ in mid March with its hideous reprisals , left the Guises victorious , but it deflected their attention away from Scotland at a critical moment . |
| 29 | This is a small town of 7,000 people through which the motorist passes on the way to Baden , itself only a short distance from Brugg on a direct road to the east . |
| 30 | Yugoslav Macedonians had also been flown back from Athens under a new regulation demanding that they should possess US$1,000 on entry to Greece . |