Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Jock ’ Norwell , Jim Pickering , Harry Ayre and ‘ Drac ’ Bowerman were flown from Luqa to Egypt in a Wellington piloted by newly-promoted and decorated Plt.Off . |
| 2 | Regular Army units were despatched from Turkmenia to help restore order . |
| 3 | Between 1940 and 1944 some 76,000 Jews were deported from France to death camps ; 2,600 survived . |
| 4 | SIR — In early 1991 , about 15,000 Jews were airlifted from Ethiopia to Israel . |
| 5 | Two crates containing 1,000 Garter snakes were shipped from Miami to London . |
| 6 | TWO lorry drivers were stung from head to foot by thousands of angry bees yesterday . |
| 7 | Even so their contribution to the mechanisms whereby the new images were translated from theory to practice needs to be recognized . |
| 8 | Although the commitment to religion was stressed from time to time , often in response to the charge of militarism , the CLB always seemed to emphasize matters of social discipline and conformity . |
| 9 | An agent was despatched from London to Jersey to check on the dead activist Varienski 's daughter . |
| 10 | In Mr. Harper 's case , less than two years ago , his rent was doubled from £12,000 to £24,000 . |
| 11 | In April 1327 Edward was moved from Renilworth to Berkeley Castle . |
| 12 | The visitors were covered from head to foot in over-ripe whale bits . |
| 13 | Stalin 's argument was part of a broader one that he derived from Lenin : the right of national self-determination was valid only where countries were passing from feudalism to capitalism . |
| 14 | Prisoners-of-war , wandering free men , peasants and natives were mobilized from time to time into detachments of foreign servicemen ( Litva ) or cossacks , and there were service gentry from European Russia stationed in the region for periods of several years . |
| 15 | Between 1975-85 , 82 sea eagles were imported from Norway to be reintroduced into Scotland . |
| 16 | For example , Hungary , Poland and Romania were inserted into the upper-middle-income group , where their apparent per capita income scores would locate them in any case , whereas Angola , Cuba and North Korea were transplanted from lower-middle-income to nonreporting nonmembers . |
| 17 | Corporate overheads in the first half were cut from $8m to $7.7m , and total operating income rose from $13.3m to £16.2m . |
| 18 | For the same reason , there was no obstruction of the highway — the miners were getting from home to colliery far more quickly than normal , thanks to the chauffeur and the VIP escort . |
| 19 | On May 26 Zeyal Sarhadi was extradited from Switzerland to France , following a ruling by Switzerland 's Federal Tribunal . |
| 20 | At one time a footway was made from Skinnergate to North Bondgate to save people 's shoes . |
| 21 | Medeghino was exiled from Milan to Lake Como for killing a man , and there he took over a castle on the natural fortress of the Sassoi di Musso near the village of Musso at the northern end of the lake , killing the castle 's governor . |
| 22 | Already the basket was swinging from side to side in the wind . |
| 23 | The average cost of a Bryant home was cut from £90,000 to £86,000 last year . |
| 24 | To attract more businesses , the maximum fees for company registration were cut from £50,000 to £5,000 and a 10 p.c. rebate on employers ' national insurance contributions was introduced . |
| 25 | The voices of churchmen were heard from time to time , perhaps frequently , complaining of the enslavement of Christians , or of the treatment of slaves ; but there was no radical attack on the institution as such . |
| 26 | It was the day for the sale of sheep , and we saw many little lots under the guardianship of shepherds and collie dogs ; eager buyers were going from group to group , judging their respective merits — now taking a hold of a sheep to feel his weight , and noting the quality of his fleece . |
| 27 | Ian Adamson , one of the keenest Protestant Gaelic speakers , who inherited his interest from a Gaelic-speaking great-grandmother from western Scotland , claims that in the 19th century , when Catholics were turning from Gaelic to English , Protestants helped to keep the language alive . |
| 28 | But the tracer was weaving from side to side . |
| 29 | Wine was splashed from jug to cup and then often drained in one loud gulp . |
| 30 | While the beam was going from right to left , the target moved forward . |