Example sentences of "from [noun prp] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Maybe the specific association behind each of these works , generally commissioned from Arnold for particular events or celebrations , has got in the way of their wider circulation . |
2 | By November of that year Henry the Lion had been defeated and banished from Germany for three years . |
3 | In the face of continued violence by armed bands the Army commander , Lt.-Col. Desi Bouterse , agreed to requests from Brunswijk for direct talks and a meeting between the two was held in Paramaribo on Dec. 19 . |
4 | Nigel had n't heard from Eleanor for several weeks . |
5 | ‘ I could n't bear to be separated from Jeff for three weeks . |
6 | The children were away from Orkney for five weeks . |
7 | ‘ My new life as a sailor will keep me away from England for many years , ’ he said . |
8 | I 'll be away from England for six months . ’ |
9 | There is undoubtedly some truth in this ; the nobility frequently sent proxies to parliament in these years ; they were too preoccupied with war to have any reason for opposing the king in parliament , and their independent campaigns on the continent took some of them away from England for several years at a time . |
10 | Do n't worry , they 've been away from England for ten years … |
11 | Support given to young people from Lothian for national arts courses |
12 | The Democratic Unionist Leader , the Reverend Ian Paisley , has been suspended from Westminster for five days after refusing to withdraw accusations about Sir Patrick Mayhew . |
13 | Back from Egypt for three months I was staying with my aunt in the Victorian villa in Tunbridge Wells in which we had both been born . |
14 | Unlike the earlier conflict , British armies were expelled from Europe for four years . |
15 | Italian opera disappeared from France for many years . |
16 | In March new electrical equipment was ordered from B.T-H. for these cars and new trucks were considered , but turned down . |
17 | The road rises steadily from Applecross for four miles to the summit of the pass ; on level ground here a large car park has been provided for motorists who wish to halt and admire the superb view across to Skye on a clear day . |
18 | West Country pubs group J A Devenish said yesterday it had leased 115 pubs from Whitbread for eight years . |
19 | ) Not wanting to be away from Previn for long periods , Mia crossed the Atlantic on a few weekends during the shooting . |
20 | ‘ It 's A Game ’ , ‘ Money Honey ’ , ‘ Shang A Lang ’ and , um , a lot of padding from the Rollers ' post ‘ 77 career after they 'd been shot down in flames , plucked , shucked , gutted , roasted , eaten , shat out and buggered in the back of the neck and then locked in the attic with Mad Auntie Maude from Nottingham for two weeks by the ultimate manufactured band , the Sex Pistols . |
21 | He used to go down to Cardiff from London for big games , rarely missing an International unless someone like Hamlet intervened . |
22 | The ministry is spending about £1 million a year on lasers — and some of this money has gone on buying equipment from Spectra-Physics for Japanese companies to try out . |
23 | One problem during the tour had centred on the young fast bowler Roy Gilchrist , who had been sent home from India for disciplinary reasons ; after the tour , opinion was divided as to whether his misdemeanours should mean the end of his Test career or whether he should be helped back into the fold by someone such as Worrell , whom he worshipped . |
24 | There are two ways from Ullapool for southbound travellers . |
25 | The coast at Shurton Bars shelves more gently to the sea than at many points farther west , and in the eighteenth century still provided a landing-place for infrequent trading vessels which brought coal from Wales for coastal lime-kilns and West Somerset hearths . |
26 | She 'd die if she was parted from Ricky for five minutes . |
27 | Both men were banned from Switzerland for 10 years but only SFr85,000 of their money was confiscated . |