Example sentences of "on [verb] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're handing out drinks , chocolate bars and advice on resting from the road . |
| 2 | Her voice was shaking as she told me that on returning from the cinema a couple of weeks earlier she had been grabbed from behind , dragged into an alley and viciously raped at knifepoint . |
| 3 | Jackson asked for a revised contract on returning from the summer tour Down Under . |
| 4 | Yucatecos blamed the whole shady episode on meddling from the centre , and took it as confirmation of their opinion that little good ever comes out of Mexico city . |
| 5 | And perhaps most interesting of all : ‘ The great contrast between the two divisions of the Archipelago is nowhere so abruptly exhibited as on passing from the island of Bali to that of Lombok , where the two regions are in closest proximity . |
| 6 | The viscosity increases rapidly to a value of about as T g is approached , but on passing from the melt to the glass a region of rubbery flow and elasticity is traversed . |
| 7 | While the co-operative , long-range , chain motion which is released on passing from the glass to the rubber-like state is not possible at , other relaxations can take place . |
| 8 | Pearl uses none of the electronic or ‘ sound enhancing ’ techniques currently fashionable , and aims to concentrate on extracting from the original grooves the essence of music . |
| 9 | Next day they had gone back with ropes and a book on rock-climbing from the library to teach themselves about knots . |
| 10 | BSB is also committed to spending as much on producing new programmes as it is on buying from the BBC archives . |
| 11 | It was reported that immediately after the close of the congress around 120 of these delegates began discussions on splitting from the Estonian CP and setting up a rival communist party in Estonia which would be subordinate to the CPSU . |
| 12 | ‘ But people intent on stealing from the public purse at the expense of others in need will be actively pursued to stamp out this type of theft . ’ |
| 13 | These have demonstrated that the radii of gyration of several semicrystalline polymers remain essentially unchanged on moving from the melt phase to the semicrystalline phase ( table 11.2 ) . |
| 14 | No embolic signals were seen on recording from the right middle cerebral artery . |
| 15 | The new TTWA boundaries will be calculated using information on commuting from the 1991 census calculated using information on commuting from the 1991 census of population . |
| 16 | The new TTWA boundaries will be calculated using information on commuting from the 1991 census calculated using information on commuting from the 1991 census of population . |
| 17 | There were a lot of reasons why she did n't want to get involved in Maxim 's domestic life , particularly when he seemed to be intent on jumping from the tenth storey of his career structure — but in the end , why not ? |
| 18 | My first shot of Manhattan was on emerging from the subway on to Fifth Avenue . |
| 19 | The dose commitment on emerging from the shelter after two weeks would be no less than 1700 rads and the daily dose at that time would be 46 rads . |
| 20 | He remained at home from work on various days through terror of being waylaid on emerging from the factory . |
| 21 | So at baptism , the new Christian would be immersed and go down into the river or the immersion font in Burmese skirt and coat , and on emerging from the water be clothed with the three garments of a Burmese monk , only white in colour instead of saffron , this signing acceptance as a mature member of the religious community and the cleansing from sin . |
| 22 | At ‘ appel ’ the Rumanian Corporal Asioz asked if anybody felt ill , because on emerging from the back door of the farmhouse that morning he had noticed a spray of liquid excrement beneath one of the ledges where somebody had shat out of the window . |
| 23 | Comrade Preobrazhensky , however , contrives to perform such a conjuring trick : he categorically insists on the ‘ plan ’ and other good things , and at the same time even more categorically insists on abstracting from the functions of state power in the sphere of the economy . |
| 24 | On retiring from the business , Mr. Collar turned to local government at Soutwark before moving to Four Marks in the early 70s . |
| 25 | On retiring from the post he became a life peer and was appointed deputy leader of the Labour Party in the Lords in 1982 , an office he relinquished only two years ago , |