Example sentences of "from their [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that , it took the agents four days to extract a confession from their prisoner on the USS Butte before turning him over to the US Navy for the 13 hour 10 minute flight to Washington , a new solo record for a carrier-based aircraft carrying a second-hand car dealer . |
| 2 | Not only the last , but also those other alterations in attitude to domestic environment mentioned earlier , which seem to occur between 1817 and 1837 , combine to give a building and its contents a quite different claim upon the imagination from their significance in Jane Austen 's time . |
| 3 | There , like others , he left the Percys to suffer from their rashness at the battle of Otterburn . |
| 4 | ‘ Once they were a proud people and ruled the greater part of Scotland but the Celts , the Angles , the Saxons and the Normans drove them from their lands into the dark vastness of the forests . |
| 5 | Over the final weekend suspected waverers came under pressure from their associations with the possibility of the deselection of a number of declared Heseltine supporters being raised . |
| 6 | He must have started working not many years after the invention of red-figure ; but though he and his contemporary Oltos use black-figure on their early cuptondos , and in their red-figure still show some liking for overall pattern , they differ from their masters in having been evidently trained from the start in the new technique . |
| 7 | THE SHAMEN have come quite a long way from their origins as an indie psychedelic outfit . |
| 8 | THE SHAMEN have come quite a long way from their origins as an indie psychedelic outfit . |
| 9 | They will probably move even further away from their origins in the martial arts and closer to western ideals of sporting conflict . |
| 10 | VICTIMS of the IRA 's City bombing — including two young girls — are recovering from their injuries in London hospitals . |
| 11 | The winner will be awarded £100 by Turn-a-Round , who offer a full woodturning service from their base at Rockland St Mary , Norwich . |
| 12 | Helicopter gunships ply constant missions from their base at Kombolcha : yesterday I watched MiG-21 fighter-bombers , loaded with bombs and rockets , take off from Dire Dawa and head west . |
| 13 | Before they reached this happy state , however , they were to carry through several operations and long hours of dangerous training from their base at the Hayling Island Sailing Club on an isolated spit of land called Sandy Point on Hayling Island ( near Portsmouth , Hampshire ) . |
| 14 | Six RAF Tornados are expected to leave for Iraq from their base at Marham , Norfolk , by the weekend . |
| 15 | For an hour they flew a repetitive zig-zag from their base to the Front and back , until Callaghan 's neck was stiff and his eyes ached ; but when he suddenly spotted an aircraft he wanted to shout the news . |
| 16 | On or around April 15 , Iranian forces moved from their base on Abu Musa island to take control of its school , police station and desalination plant . |
| 17 | In the wake of the agreement , Greenpeace is to withdraw its team from their base on Ross Island . |
| 18 | Donald and Gillian Hind also organize sail training and other special interest cruises — wildlife , history — from their base in Argyll . |
| 19 | From their base in Canada , they had engaged in the conquest of America and after that , it seemed , the conquest of the whole world . |
| 20 | The first film commission in Britain was set up in 1989 in Liverpool , in response to Mersey Television 's need for locations around that city , as they developed drama programmes from their base in Brookside . |
| 21 | In the eighth century the Moors moved rapidly over Spain from their base in North Africa and occupied the whole country except for a small area in the north-west , between the Cantabrian Mountains and the sea . |
| 22 | Guards ' trial : Two Coldstream guardsmen were committed for trial at Teesside Crown Court when they made another appearance before magistrates in Whitby yesterday accused of a series of robberies while AWOL from their base in Germany . |
| 23 | They make the 2600 kilometre trip regularly , transporting the GSi Astras from their base near Dungannon to GM Spain 's headquarters in Madrid and on to events throughout the country — even as far as the Canary Islands . |
| 24 | They may bend the small tree towards neighbouring tree by climbing out onto side branches of the pole tree ; in other circumstances , the apes swing pole trees back and forth to gain momentum — often initially bending the trees away from their direction of travel , Orang-utans also swing across on vines , first untangling them ; if a suitable vine is already stretched across a gap , a beast may walk across on top , balancing in the manner of a circus tightrope walker . |
| 25 | In 1889 the Prevention of Cruelty and Protection of Children Act for the first time outlawed proven cruelty to children and allowed children in certain circumstances to be removed from their families to a place of safety , usually a charitable institution such as Barnardo 's . |
| 26 | Children may be living apart from their families for a variety of reasons . |
| 27 | In the worst cases they have even lost the right to grow up in loving and secure homes , seeking to earn their living on the street or separated from their families by war and civil conflict . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , such a post had its drawbacks : the prince could detain his musicians at will , and , on one occasion , Haydn was obliged to drop his patron a heavy hint — in the form of the ‘ Farewell ’ Symphony — that the court orchestra members had been kept away from their families in Vienna for too long . |
| 29 | A total of 43 of the victims had been separated from their families in childhood by state authorities , all but two had left school before completing their secondary education , and 43 had been charged with a criminal offence by the age of 15 . |
| 30 | ‘ A Momentary Lapse Of Reason ’ was their first experiment together , a back-to-basics show of rock strength that borrowed from their past in a noble effort to face the future head on . |