Example sentences of "of [pron] from [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh dear oh it 's down about here when , did it the other day , and the woman just drove out straight in front of me from another lane |
| 2 | Taczek told me he could think of nothing from those times that would have made Mills any sort of target for a KGB assassin — or any other sort of assassin come to that . ’ |
| 3 | The term ‘ merchant adventurer ’ was originally applied to any merchant trading in cloth overseas ; there were groups of them from various towns including Newcastle and York , and others were drawn from several of the London companies , but gradually the term was limited to a group within the Mercers . |
| 4 | The whole legion of them from all sorts of different things , you know , there was the , the one about the , the secretary of the , of the club , the secretary of some organization , youth organization , said , in her annual reports , commented on how many young girls they 'd managed to get in the club that year . |
| 5 | There was a constant stream of them from early morning all through the day , but my work ended at five in the afternoon , when I was free to go and meet my friends . |
| 6 | There are 25 families , 19 of them from ethnic minorities , which form the core of the project , and for these families alone £46,400 of unclaimed benefits has been recovered . |
| 7 | Last year the town recorded 2,500 vehicle offences , many of them from central car parks . |
| 8 | A total of 43 people died on Jan. 14 , most of them from toxic cyanide fumes , after a fire broke out at a Zaragoza nightclub . |
| 9 | Any citizen aged between 40 and 65 would be eligible to run for the presidency , provided he or she was proposed by at least 5,000 people , at least 200 of them from each province . |
| 10 | Unlike the House of Lords it is elected , but it is elected by local councillors , an overwhelming majority of them from small country ‘ communes ’ . |
| 11 | During 1989 a total of 21,882 people , nearly twice as many as in 1988 and most of them from Eastern Europe , sought asylum in Austria , and during the first three months of 1990 the numbers reached 5,000 , most of them being Romanians who were arriving at a rate of 200 per day in late February . |
| 12 | According to the WEU Secretary-General , Willem van Eekelen , as many as 50,000 troops might be assigned to the new force , most of them from existing units , including an Anglo-Dutch amphibious division , a planned multinational North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) division and the recently formed Franco-German corps [ see pp. 38931-32 ] . |
| 13 | The dominant approach to behaviour problems in schools is based on identifying and categorizing individual pupils with a view to removing some of them from mainstream schools . |
| 14 | In 1915 and ‘ 16 he had proved he had n't lost his old touch , and so died in bed at a great age , garnished with colourful honours , many of them from grateful countries whose soldiers he had n't got killed even on purpose . |
| 15 | Hastings collected four penalties in the opening half , three of them from 50 yards down the strong wind . |
| 16 | Some of the poems in the present book , only his second , are so old that I seem to remember some of them from another world . |
| 17 | It calls for more policy agreements between agencies and a clearer statement of them from senior managers . |
| 18 | The Miller , in his tale , re-emerges in the target figure that superficially seems meant to represent the Reeve ; the Reeve then retrospectively identifies himself with a trickster and target figure : the trickster who makes a fool of the character supposed to represent him but who is subsequently made a fool of himself from another quarter . |
| 19 | He left the cardboard box on top of his wardrobe , where it remained until 1973 , when he cleared away every trace of himself from 29 Champney Road . |
| 20 | In 1837 Gooch was appointed joint principal engineer with George Stephenson and was responsible for the line 's construction , which was his greatest achievement and required many heavy civil-engineering works , including a two-mile tunnel under the Pennine hills , the boring of which from thirteen shafts took over three years . |
| 21 | Some of you from that part of the world will know that it 's a wonderful little shop , in fact it 's a gold mine and Jacqui 's going to tell me a little bit about her recipe for running that shop . |
| 22 | To display their collection of everything from Islamic ceramics to the Russian Avant-garde they have made substantial long-term loans as well as opening their own museums . |
| 23 | Construct replica models of everything from F-15 fighter planes to World War I British infantry corned-beef rations . |
| 24 | By the time I had heard it a fifth time , one of football 's most respected managers stood accused of everything from gross indecency to impotence . |
| 25 | Her duties were n't merely confined to waitressing however ; like all the girls at The Haven she did whatever was required of her from changing bed linen to washing dishes . |
| 26 | All she could see of him from this angle was that he was a very large man , broad as well as tall — so tall that he had to bend his head over his task . |
| 27 | Indeed , after lecturing on this work for twenty-five years , and though I could write out most of it from visual memory , it still sounds elusive . ) |
| 28 | Group members derive some of it from each other . |
| 29 | As much as 97 percent of our barbecue fuel is imported … much of it from Indonesian rain forests and mangrove swamps . |
| 30 | Well , of course , it is inevitable that one thinks of it from that angle from the way one has been brought up but actually one ca n't think of anything more barbaric than the Crucifixion and that way of killing somebody . |