Example sentences of "from [noun prp] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The special is timed for an 8.00pm departure from Waterloo to comply with the ban on daylight running over the third rail and to ensure that there is no diesel pilot . |
| 2 | It 's very difficult for a guy from Malaga to think about being an actor . |
| 3 | They 've driven down from Sheffield to come with me . |
| 4 | When he fights for his country in Barcelona in July , Richardson will be only the second representative from Middlesbrough to compete in the Olympics . |
| 5 | The job done , we repaired to the kitchen door to see literally what was cooking and to take the printed menus from Angus to put on the tables . |
| 6 | Even the ancient Egyptians , as we have seen , welcomed gifts or exacted tribute from Syria to add to the resources of equatorial Africa . |
| 7 | They were just getting into their stride when they received an invitation from Lila to come to her place . |
| 8 | Explains Nick : ‘ Dad said he 'd be there and then got a call from Brussels to talk about herring quotas or something . |
| 9 | ‘ Dad had said he 'd be there and then got a call from Brussels to talk about herring quotas or something , ’ says Nick . |
| 10 | As he set off from Washington to campaign in Cleveland , Chicago and New York , he hinted strongly that he might be prepared to send American ground troops to join the UN peacekeepers who have gone to Macedonia to try to stop the Balkans war from spreading . |
| 11 | He had his top brass coming in from Washington to look at the operation and the first thing they 'd see at Filanta Court was this 30-foot PLO radio mast . |
| 12 | So that 's why IBM Corp was ready to get rid of MAPICS , one of its very few ostensibly successful software applications : Marcam Corp signalled in a conference call on Thursday night that analysts for now should not expect the product line from IBM to add to Marcam 's earnings in fiscal 1994 ; it indicated that both this year and for the time being next year their guidance is no positive impact on earnings from the MAPICS acquisition , ’ Hambrecht & Quist analyst Robert Herwick says . |
| 13 | ’ ( i ) We have an invitation from Spain to tender for the line Locke has surveyed between Barcelona and Mataro . |
| 14 | Sighvat 's Knútsdrápa indicates that he had sailed from England to deal with the threat posed by Olaf and Anund Jacob , and mentions his visit to Rome . |
| 15 | Adam also says that Swegen destroyed idolatrous rites , commanded the Norwegians to receive Christianity , and appointed a bishop who had come from England to teach in Skåne . |
| 16 | The glamour of Monte Carlo was renowned so they were overjoyed when a troupe was summoned from England to appear in a special show for Prince Rainier 's father at the Opera House . |
| 17 | The most serious of the plant proposals is probably that from Chile to delete from Appendix I ‘ dead specimens ’ of a magnificent and endangered tree known as alerce or Chilean false larch . |
| 18 | Fine Gael is anything but left-wing : its roots can be traced back to General Duffy and the Blueshirts who sent a division of soldiers from Ireland to fight for Franco in the Spanish Civil War . |
| 19 | Four more S.79s were sent out from Sicily to search for it but one ran out of fuel and had to ditch , the crew being picked up by an Italian hospital ship . |
| 20 | Mrs Jenny Somerville , Liddell 's sister , has sent a verse from Isaiah to inscribe on the granite headstone : ‘ They soar on wings like eagles ; they run and grow not weary . ’ |
| 21 | The architect died in 1352 and his place was taken by Peter Parler from Cologne , who was invited to come from Schwäbisch-Gmünd to work on the cathedral . |
| 22 | Second favourite Shogun at 6–1 was the only horse apart from Craganour to start at less than 10–1 ; King George V 's horse Anmer , ridden by Herbert Jones , was 50–1 . |
| 23 | Nick said in a shrill voice , ‘ That 's a new blouse , Auntie Lou , ’ and Mr Evans turned from Carrie to look at his sister . |
| 24 | When Hollywood moguls decided to make a feature film of Gungha Din they brought Sir Robert from Canada to act as technical advisor . |
| 25 | Deforestation , whether to clear the ground for pasture or to produce timber and fuel , was a worry in these parts of the Pyrenees as long ago as the seventeenth century , when the prescient minister Colbert sent an eminent forester from Paris to report on the local resources in wood ; but it is only quite recently that felling and replanting have been properly controlled . |
| 26 | Then , one night , he took off from Toussus to return to Tarbes in a Turbo Trinidad , went up to FL 210 , and passed out while on autopilot . |
| 27 | Cardiff spun from Peters to look at them . |
| 28 | The school has teamed up with Assumption Grammar School from Ballynahinch to communicate with schools in Osaka and other cities in Japan . |
| 29 | Three centuries of colonialism were then imposed on the peoples seized from Africa to work on its plantations . |
| 30 | And then when things got a wee bitty better we used to have the Camerons up from Kilray from Kerry to dance to the Play at the dances . |