Example sentences of "from [noun prp] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The bank made shipments from Timbuktu in the Middle Ages , when African gold was at its finest . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Ma mother — ‘ she told Jane , ‘ came from Tennessee in a covered wagon . |
| 3 | The exception is Old Sarum , Old Salisbury , reoccupied for a time by folk fleeing from Wilton in the Danish raids of the opening of the eleventh century — and it survived to be the site of a cathedral and a Norman castle . |
| 4 | The shop now caters for the mainstream market , but it was built upon bringing in exclusive trainers from Germany in the early Eighties , trainers that had nothing to do with America , but a lot to do with the nomad Scousers , and Wade Smith often supplemented his stock by buying from Liverpool ‘ entrepreneurs ’ with time on their hands to travel to Deutschland and acquire , by various methods , the much sought after , exclusive Adidas Trim-Trab . |
| 5 | Even the US Army in West Germany was fed on beef and pork from Romania in the early 1980s . |
| 6 | His Jewish mother had narrowly escaped from Romania in the 19305 when the local Iron Guard goon squad began slaughtering Jews with a barbarity which sickened even their Nazi German allies . |
| 7 | Her parents used to live just inland from Brighton in a converted windmill . |
| 8 | Linnaeus respected Miller 's work and corresponded with him after his return to Europe ; there are ten letters from Chelsea in the Linnaean collection covering the period from 1752 to 1768 . |
| 9 | The isolation of ephedrine from ma huang in 1923 and more recently a group of antimalarial drugs qing hao from Artemisia in the 1970s has exemplified the important compounds in the armamentarium of traditional Chinese herbs . |
| 10 | She came to London from LA in the mid Eighties and sang with various groups , including satirical rap outfit The Ghastly Girls . |
| 11 | Nickle moved to St Helens from Sheffield in the close season and , despite injuries , has managed to establish himself in the side . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In Ephesos is the modest-sized Temple of Hadrian which displays the Mesopotamian tradition of an arched lintel , a device introduced from Syria in the first century ( 133 ) . |
| 14 | But it was only when tourists and journalists began to return from Bucharest in the mid-later 1980s with photographs of the demolitions and stories about their effects on the local people that any organized criticism of the regime got under way in Western Europe . |
| 15 | When he came back from Livorno in the late summer of 1913 he made straight for the Café Rotonde , to be greeted rapturously by artists and models on the terrace . |
| 16 | Just at that , there was a cry from Abel in the next room . |
| 17 | The village of Flushing , as seen from Falmouth in the early morning , with mist rising from the harbour . |
| 18 | Mam chose instead to take us to a different hill station every year so that we travelled the length and breadth of India , from Kashmir in the far north-west , four days ' journey by train and road , to the Nilgiri near Simla , and Darjeeling . |
| 19 | The 48ft 6in Solent class lifeboat Hugh William Viscount Gough was launched from Dunbar in the same search for the missing divers as the Eyemouth lifeboat on 6 October 1990 ( see previous page ) , and the efforts of her Coxswain during the service won him the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum . |
| 20 | All the same , she was glad she could hide from Maggie in the artificial night , though he waited patiently , non-oppressive . |
| 21 | We glimpse Raulinus , for example , who came from Devon in the mid-thirteenth century , wasted time as a student in Paris for two years and then came on to Bologna making a living copying manuscripts , drinking and writing love poems to Meldina . |
| 22 | He 's due to return from Spain in the next few days . |
| 23 | Boyd , who will be 50 next year , has changed little in appearance since he graduated from Harvard in the early Sixties . |
| 24 | The conditions for the crossing were not much worse than for the criminals who were just beginning to be shipped across from England in the 1670s , and the death rates were not much higher . |
| 25 | The Portrait of Kahnweiler , painted in Paris soon after Picasso 's return from Cadaquès in the early autumn of 1910 , may have helped Picasso towards a solution of his problem , since in dealing with a particular individual he was forced to find a less difficult and hermetic means of expression ; in any case the portrait serves to illustrate what steps Picasso took to make his work once again more legible . |
| 26 | A combative mood at the congress had been set at the very opening of proceedings when the first speaker in the debate on the agenda , Vladimir Bludov from Magadan in the Far East , had called for the entire politburo to resign . |
| 27 | After a hard-hitting first round in which both boxers traded body punches , the initiative ebbed away from Hopper in the second as he allowed himself to be drawn into a slugging match instead of using his jab . |
| 28 | The Goths , who came from Gotland in the late third century divided and merged with other peoples . |
| 29 | To his credit , Mr Allen did not go mad and even managed to find an Eskimo poet who returned from Copenhagen in the revolutionary year of 1967 to see what was happening in Greenland ( 'Nothing ’ ) . |
| 30 | Ramsey Abbey , for instance , paid a tribute of four thousand eels a year , during Lent , for the right to take stone from Barnack in the eleventh century . |