Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] from [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Mandela was brought from prison on Robben Island to join his colleagues , and the trial began on 9 October . |
| 2 | Bankrupt Australian entrepreneur Alan Bond was released from prison on Aug. 27 after the Western Australian Court of Criminal Appeal quashed a fraud conviction against him . |
| 3 | Following an appeal made by Major during his visit , the Hong Kong businessman Luo Haixing was released from prison on Sept. 9 " on bail for medical treatment outside the country " . |
| 4 | The leaders of the black Moslem fundamentalist Jamaat al-Moslemeen , Yasin Abu Bakr and Bilal Abdullah , and 114 other members of the group were released from prison on July 1 . |
| 5 | Three members of the Roman Catholic clergy belonging to the pro-Vatican underground church were released from prison on Jan. 28 , according to Reuters news agency . |
| 6 | Veteran peace campaigner Abie Nathan was released from prison on March 30 after serving six months of an 18-month sentence for meeting Yassir Arafat , chair of the Palestine Liberation Organization . |
| 7 | Ferniehirst was removed from office on English insistence , and gradually calm was restored . |
| 8 | This tended to increase the influence of parliament ; and in 1858 , for the first time in British history , a government was driven from office on a foreign policy question . |
| 9 | Schäuble was released from hospital on Oct. 31 after two operations to remove a bullet lodged near his spine . |
| 10 | Bembenek was released from jail on December 9 after serving 10 years for the murder of Christine Schultz . |
| 11 | A former Cabinet minister , Edward Rurangaranga , and five others were released from prison on Jan. 23 after the state dropped murder charges against them for lack of evidence . |
| 12 | YOUR correspondent ‘ Puzzled ’ ( Writeback , August 19 ) complains that an elderly lady of her acquaintance was discharged from hospital on Friday , August 13 , by ‘ taxi ’ , shared with three other disabled senior citizens . |
| 13 | President Najibullah was removed from power on April 15 , after elements of the ruling Hezb-e Watan , with some military support , carried out what was effectively a low-key coup . |