Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] from [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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61 They would ask me how the training was going from time to time and this interest spurred me on .
62 But at the back the bodice was slit from collar to midriff and the skirt was daringly short .
63 He was reported to have said that the killing was ordered from prison by a Jihad leader Sawfat Abdel Ghani , who had been convicted of involvement in the killing of al-Mahgoub .
64 The status of the golf pro was elevated from serfdom to secular divinity in 20 years .
65 Stewart 's bitter rival , the veteran Nicholas Kokataylo , the 33-year-old from Denton , in Manchester , was favourite for the gold medal , but a strong challenge was expected from newcomer to the weight , Ray Stevens , 26 , of the London Budokwai .
66 Stewart 's bitter rival , the veteran Nicholas Kokataylo , the 33-year-old from Denton , in Manchester , was favourite for the gold medal , but a strong challenge was expected from newcomer to the weight , Ray Stevens , 26 , of the London Budokwai .
67 Bembenek was released from jail on December 9 after serving 10 years for the murder of Christine Schultz .
68 Michael William Beecheno ( ACA ) of 2 Tummons Gardens , South Norwood Hill , London having been found guilty of misconduct within the meaning of Bye-law 76(a) in force at the material time and liable to disciplinary action under Bye-law 76(a) ( i ) in that in London between 11 March 1991 and 14 March 1991 he improperly suggested that charges to his employers for temporary staff be increased and the additional sums be paid to him under the guise of consultancy fees was excluded from membership of the Institute and ordered to pay £500 by way of costs .
69 Andrew Hayton was released from jail after serving just half his three month jail term .
70 Fond memories of Jerry Lee Lewis who blew up a storm of indignation in the 1950s , not to mention Presley , whose subversive pelvis was banned from television in some American states where it was only permitted to film Elvis-the-Pelvis from the waist upwards .
71 However , when the analysis was extended from consideration of only a single variable relationship to a multiple regression model which controlled for other possible influences on strikes , such as unemployment , profits and real wages , it was then found that bargaining structures did not have a statistically significant influence.l'
72 Trevor Radway , Chairman of the Forest of Dean Railway Company Limited , said there had been many improvements in recent times , and the railway was going from strength to strength .
73 Laura was trembling from head to toe .
74 By 1974 , however , following the collapse in the property market , land was hawked from door to door by builders , estate agents , banks , speculators and private individuals .
75 After his inevitable conviction Cranmer was brought from prison in Oxford to the University Church of St Mary the Virgin to be formally degraded by the papal commissioners .
76 In the second incident more than £1,858 worth of beds and bedding was stolen from storage at Wallis Road , South Bank , Middlesbrough .
77 Nina was passed from person to person .
78 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 .
79 In a struggle on the ground , my raincoat was torn from top to bottom and Bardely exclaimed ‘ He 's biting my little finger off . ’
80 Yesterday an inquest was told Mr Coulson was suffering from cancer of the lung and heart disease .
81 ( FCA ) of having been found liable to disciplinary action under Bye-law 76(a) ( i ) in that he in the Crown Court on 30 April 1992 was indicted and on his plea of guilty convicted on one count of conspiracy to defraud a limited company was excluded from membership of the Institute and ordered to pay £250 by way of costs .
82 WORLD-FAMOUS former Great Western 4-4-0 City of Truro was saved from disaster by a sharp-eyed West Somerset Railway Signals and Telegraph Engineer .
83 It was some time before he realized that the entire Sakata factory was lit from end to end by bright , dazzling light .
84 In early April 1990 , Price was released from prison in Sweden after serving approximately five years of his sentence .
85 On 6 July , Price was released from prison in this country .
86 As the story was passed from lip to lip , the level of destruction became greater and greater , as did the area of the land destroyed .
87 That may be so , but the prince was ousted from power by the Lon Nol coup back in 1970 , and made only a brief comeback as a Khmer Rouge figurehead in 1976 .
88 In this method a tape measure was run from tip of tail to nose following the lines of the beast 's back .
89 Suddenly Lisa was grinning from ear to ear .
90 CF–DRD was retired from service in 1984 , but this was not to be the end of this particular Norseman 's fame .
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