Example sentences of "he [verb] from [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McMenemy might have been thinking of Steve Williams , another promising talent who 'd already won six England caps when he moved from Southampton to Arsenal in December l984 . |
| 2 | Shearer , who became British football 's most expensive player when he moved from Southampton to Blackburn for £3.4 million at the start of the season , has played only 30 minutes since Boxing Day . |
| 3 | Marinello 's drift into melancholy uncannily predicted the future that Charlie Nicholas would have to endure when he moved from Celtic to Arsenal two decades later . |
| 4 | , , , or , Leonard ( c. 1621–1685 ) , gardener and nurseryman , had one of the earliest general nursery gardens in London from the early 1640s , when he moved from Southwark to twelve acres in east London , between Brick Lane and Greatorex Street , north of Old Montagu Street . |
| 5 | When he moved from Newcastle-upon-Tyne to Nottingham he made the journey down the A1 for better fishing and the chance to learn from big name anglers . |
| 6 | In 1964 , at the age of 8 , he moved from Jamaica to Islington , London , where he resumed schooling , but found the demands at home often contradictory : |
| 7 | Barron bought forty acres for a nursery site in nearby Borrowash , to which he moved from Elvaston in 1865 . |
| 8 | As the romance blossomed , he moved from Enfield to be nearer her home in Coatbridge and obtained a new job in the Computer Department at Stoddard . |
| 9 | Gordon Hamilton signalled his very serious approach to rugby and the international game when he moved from NIFC to Ballymena at the start of the season . |
| 10 | The Foreign Minister was Nguyen Tuong Tam who had been in south China but not as an associate of Ho Chi Minh ( he fled from Hanoi in June 1946 ) . |
| 11 | Finally , he sailed from Dover on 11th December 1189 . |
| 12 | He sailed from Polperro on the ‘ Lord Nelson ’ in 1807 , out to do some privateering . |
| 13 | Herzen observed a " sharp and remarkable " difference between essays he received from Russia in 1856 and those that had arrived in 1855 . |
| 14 | He was always ready to provide plants for scientific purposes , and his friend Nathaniel Ward [ q.v. ] warmly acknowledged the help he received from Loddiges in developing Wardian cases . |
| 15 | He came from Agyrium in the inferior , not far from Etna . |
| 16 | At the south-western corner of the city walls two smaller castles were built , Baynard 's and Mountfichet , but never allowed to become great fortresses ; and they were finally removed from this strategic place by Edward I in the late thirteenth century : by a king whose mighty works at the Tower mirrored his determination to keep the Londoners under firm control ; but who greatly expanded the western end and formed a large new enclosure there for the Dominican friars , who could help him to ensure that no hostile presence met him when he came from Westminster to the City . |
| 17 | He came from Wales of course , from the valleys and that . |
| 18 | In a prefatory motto for the book he quotes from Freud to the effect that ‘ perhaps we must make up our minds to the idea that altogether it is not possible for the claims of the sexual instincts to be reconciled with the demands of culture . ’ |
| 19 | In He drove from Toronto to New York , for example , the spatial entity New York is related to the process of driving as the term of the movement involved in this process . |
| 20 | On June 30 the commander of the Fatah militias in southern Lebanon , Anwar Madi , was shot dead in an ambush by two men as he drove from Sidon to his office in the Ain Helweh refugee camp on the outskirts of the town . |
| 21 | For all the wartime jibes and contempt which he directed from Berlin at ‘ Mr Bloody Churchill ’ and his followers , he was hanged . |
| 22 | He turned from Bristol without regret and entered again the West Somerset landscape of coast and hills over which , very soon , he would become a persistent and delighted explorer . |
| 23 | However , he telephoned from Kigali on Saturday to say that they had been taken out through the area in which the fighting had taken place without mishap . |
| 24 | Boyd , who will be 50 next year , has changed little in appearance since he graduated from Harvard in the early Sixties . |
| 25 | His basic earthiness means that this will be his last season for the Harlequins , the club he joined from Blackheath in 1986 in order to have a tilt at international honours . |
| 26 | He differed from Hegel in his particular emphasis on historical study of the New Testament , but remained Idealist in his theology . |
| 27 | Similarly , in what seemed a particularly unconventional technique at the time , Michel Butor , in La Modification ( 1957 ) , employs a second-person narrative as a means , apparently , of voicing the monologue which Léon Delmont is conducting with himself as he travels from Paris to Rome to join his mistress , explaining to himself the history of his affair and anticipating how it will resolve itself . |
| 28 | In August 1846 he walked from Preston to the World 's Temperance Convention in London , preaching teetotalism on the way . |
| 29 | BELFAST jockey Pat McWilliams is beginning to settle down and ride a few winners since he returned from England before Christmas facing an uncertain future . |
| 30 | But even then the only player of note Cardiff themselves lost was Mark Ring , and he returned from Pontypool after just a year . |