Example sentences of "from [noun prp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ancient church treasures of gold , silver , ivory and rock crystal ; enamelled , filigreed , and bejewelled , which were stolen from Quedlinburg by a US army lieutenant in 1945 , have been returned to Germany , and the whole contents of the treasury some fifty works has just gone on display in the Kunstgewerbemuseum until 30 May 1993 . |
| 2 | And er father came as a sexton from from Horley with a parson you see . |
| 3 | K W K Palmer from Norfolk with a portrait of a small tortoiseshell butterfly feeding on an orange marigold . |
| 4 | The Humber Tavern , built 1808 , was where the landlord used to try to attract visitors from Hull with a bathing machine . |
| 5 | A class B1 comes down the bank from Woodhouse on an up train — the photo was taken from a footbridge . |
| 6 | From left : climbing out from Guernsey with a visiting training sailing ship below ; Trislander over Alderney , whose airport may be seen in the background ; the island of Herm on a hazy autumn day , with Sark in the background ; Trislander 's single-pilot-panel — very functional , with mixture knobs oddly set on top |
| 7 | First was Robert Maxwell , who in 1984 achieved his long ambition to play the press baron role and won the Mirror papers from Reed at an acceptable price . |
| 8 | Gary Bennett ( centre back ) : Only five short of 300 appearances for Sunderland since signing from Cardiff for a bargain £80,000 , Bennett has been a great servant to the club . |
| 9 | ‘ I talked to a couple from Stirling for a while — Mr and Mrs Maclean . |
| 10 | The goalkeeper was also required to throw himself acrobatically to his left-hand post when a header from Ferguson off a Robertson freekick once again underlined his threat . |
| 11 | ‘ Ma mother — ‘ she told Jane , ‘ came from Tennessee in a covered wagon . |
| 12 | ‘ To begin with I was distressed to find that I could n't extract more than ten words from Dowayos at a stretch … |
| 13 | Unfinished ton and a pair from Murray on a foreign expedition ( 4 ) |
| 14 | Cutting copper releases from Wilton to a quarter of their 1990 level . |
| 15 | Next door , in the Children 's ITV studio , presenter , Tommy Boyd is given instructions from Roger via an earpiece . |
| 16 | He missed the presentations to meet his brother flying from Germany for a family reunion . |
| 17 | Mr Rakebrand ( 33 ) an agriculture engineer from Adendorf , Germany , was shot soon after he and his wife arrived from Germany for a holiday . |
| 18 | Van der Zyl , who had arrived from Germany with a Kindertransport in 1939 , was a rare soul , a liberal who held the respect of the orthodox community . |
| 19 | I arrived from Germany in a refugee transport , escaping from the Nazi oppression in 1938 . |
| 20 | Memorex Telex NV has come under the Standard & Poor 's Corp microscope and the ratings agency cut its the rating on its Memorex Telex Corp unit 's $510m 10% guaranteed senior notes due 1998 to B-minus from single-B with a negative rating outlook . |
| 21 | Peter Barnes , George MCCluskey Wayne Enthwistle by Jimmy Adamson from Sunderland in a swap with John Hawley . |
| 22 | Ernest Hemingway is reputed to have considered the descent from Monte in a toboggan one of the strongest emotions of his life . |
| 23 | Baby Bogdan , brought from Romania for a life saving operation to drain fluid from his brain , is ‘ satisfactory and making good progress ’ in Middlesbrough General Hospital . |
| 24 | ROD Jones has returned from Romania with a message for his fellow aid workers : ‘ The situation is desperate . ’ |
| 25 | Her parents used to live just inland from Brighton in a converted windmill . |
| 26 | GRAHAM STUART completed a storming second-half fightback from Chelsea with a dramatic late equaliser last night . |
| 27 | The team goes straight from Sheffield to a ten-day training camp in an open air pool at Narbonne , France , to acclimatise for the games . |
| 28 | The most perfect example of the Marine Style is the pot from Gournia with an octopus sprawling all over its surface . |
| 29 | On that occasion their predicament had been spotted and a boat had been sent out from Sharpness on a wild goose chase . |
| 30 | A clearing opened ahead , separated from Trent by a fan of palm fronds . |