Example sentences of "from [noun sg] so [adv] " in BNC.

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1 His successor , Alexander I , was known as ‘ the Fierce ’ , and there were legends of his suppressing an uprising by rebels from Moray so brutally that nobody survived to explain the reasons for their disaffection .
2 The Chief Constable said 26 of the 45 deaths from violence so far this year were attributable to loyalists .
3 Indeed , until he was summoned home from King 's College , Cambridge , in 1698 , after the death of his elder brother , Walpole had rarely spent more than a few weeks at his Norfolk home in any year since he was 6.17 Not all families , however , sent their children away from home so early , or for so long .
4 Instead , they are likely to suggest that some methods of discipline can be used to help prevent a young person absconding from care so long as this does them no harm .
5 The one positive thing to emerge from privatisation so far has been the degree of accountability that has been imposed on Group 4 , far more stringent than the level the police and prison officers are used to .
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