Example sentences of "from a [noun] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police have now identified a man believed to be one of Ashiq 's attackers from a video recording and are trying to find him . |
| 2 | In fact , the two separate incidents concerned a 3-year-old girl who was enticed into woods near her home and sexually assaulted and then soon afterwards , a 3-year-old boy who was abducted from a play area and driven off at high speed before being dumped a mile and a half away forty minutes later . |
| 3 | Gerald pulled out a crushed packet of cigarettes from a trouser pocket and lit one . |
| 4 | But Eric came back from a working holiday and Peter was out for a little while , was n't he ? |
| 5 | Choose a moderately extensive table from a government publication and summarize its main features in , say , 700–800 words . |
| 6 | A bag of red wool was produced from a work basket and the looped baubles glittered on the tree . |
| 7 | The row began after father and baby were evicted from a council bed and breakfast — on the grounds Steve made himself homeless in the first place . |
| 8 | Just to think of what he would say if he came home from a Council meeting and found an American soldier sitting in his parlour made Carrie 's stomach shrivel . |
| 9 | The less fortunate among them , like Nicholson and Robert Towne , Charles Eastman , the writers , and Monte Hellman , the director , got together in a play group and literally built their own theatre , stealing timber from building sites for their scenery ; they ripped a toilet from a petrol station and lighting and electronics were similarly acquired . |
| 10 | Beyond this the visitor turns a corner to be presented with the length of the main hall running from a balloon basket and the Cody Biplane to the HS.125 executive jet and an air traffic controller 's desk . |
| 11 | ‘ I could n't have done it without help from a Ministry grant and my brother Matthew . |
| 12 | Jonny takes swigs from a water bottle and times his work with an alarm clock . |
| 13 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 14 | This meant very little to me apart from a salary increase and a move from my position at the extreme right of the Cabinet table to the extreme left . |
| 15 | There 's a sofa and armchair , a writing table , music from a threechannel radio and even a telephone to keep in touch with the landlubbers back home . |
| 16 | Describe four examples of these types of constraints ; two from a manufacturing firm and two from a service firm . |
| 17 | For the first time ever Unix is teetering on the brink of real consolidation , with all its hopes focused on a humble billionaire businessman who wears $180 suits , plays golf with $90 clubs from a discount outlet and bought Unix in time for Christmas . |
| 18 | Paul Warhurst is fighting to shrug off a thigh strain to join him while David Johnson has recovered from a cartilage operation and Francis himself is back in contention after a groin strain . |
| 19 | She bought a pine table from a junk shop and slowly sandpapered it down in the garden , and then sealed it , something she 'd never done before , never even thought of doing before . |
| 20 | This intervention can be very simple : buying items from a shopping list and needing change |
| 21 | ‘ Alan McLaren played against Malta while suffering from a calf knock and subdued their best player , Bussitil , as he had done Roberto Baggio against Italy . |
| 22 | He had been lifted from a detention cell and given the job of English teacher because the Colonel liked a boy who could smile into the face of an interrogator who wielded a rubber truncheon . |
| 23 | A circuit analysis program that reads a circuit description from a text file and performs various ‘ bench ’ tests and writes results to an output file for later viewing . |
| 24 | A nationwide hunt for 13-year-old Nicola , who disappeared from her Staffordshire home on Thursday , ended late last night after she dialled 999 from a promenade call-box and told the ambulance service she was feeling unwell . |
| 25 | LA in flames : panorama shot of the city ( above ) ; and messages from a graffiti artist and a Korean shopkeeper ( left ) |
| 26 | Most ventures were undertaken by a joint-stock company authorised by act of parliament to raise a capital sum from a share issue and supplementary capital by borrowing . |
| 27 | Dann looked at Maxim 's glass , then took a bottle of gin from a desk drawer and refilled his own . |
| 28 | Make sure the engine is from a road vehicle and not from an industrial application as the fuel injector pump will need recalibrating for road use . |
| 29 | Anthony was riding his bike behind the house when the dog escaped from a back yard and pounced . |
| 30 | Can it read text files from a word processor and pictures from a graphics package ? |