Example sentences of "[noun] were [verb] from [noun prp] 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 | Between 1940 and 1944 some 76,000 Jews were deported from France to death camps ; 2,600 survived . |
| 3 | SIR — In early 1991 , about 15,000 Jews were airlifted from Ethiopia to Israel . |
| 4 | Two crates containing 1,000 Garter snakes were shipped from Miami to London . |
| 5 | Between 1975-85 , 82 sea eagles were imported from Norway to be reintroduced into Scotland . |
| 6 | The waters were layered from October to May while ice was present , with temperatures close to freezing point near the surface but at 1–1.25°C near the bottom in 26 m . |
| 7 | It would appear that , separately from the files referred to in the correspondence in December 1990 , a substantial quantity of further files were moved from London to [ a Middle East state ] . |
| 8 | Over more than 60 years , an estimated 150,000 children including some from Merseyside were shipped from Britain to distant parts of the Empire . |
| 9 | Our observations of the maser emission were made from January to June 1992 with the Nobeyana 45-m telescope . |
| 10 | Evidently the need to furnish an emerging capital with prestigious works of art remained important throughout antiquity and indeed in more recent times : Rome lost much , though temporarily , from Napoleon 's ambitious plans for embellishing Paris with famous works of art , and during the Second World War many artistic works were transported from Italy to Germany . |
| 11 | Twenty flamingoes were shipped from Tanzania to London , on arrival three were dead , the other 17 had suffered multiple wounds to legs and wings from tight , non-elastic straps . |
| 12 | The terrifying near miss took place 4,500 ft above RAF Waddington , Lincs , as the riders were flying from Newbury to York races . |
| 13 | The children were taken from Orkney to mainland Scotland under Place of Safety orders . |
| 14 | When the first 120 miles of the East India Railway were opened from Calcutta to Raniganj in 1855 , the ceremony took place at Burdwan station , a long classical structure 66 miles from Calcutta . |
| 15 | Exports worth up to £0.5m. a year in the late seventeenth century were taken from India to England , often for re-export to the rest of the world , and this trade determined the flow of dividends . |
| 16 | Ten Canadian river otters were shipped from Canada to the UK , due to unsuitable crates only two survived . |
| 17 | In Stage VIII votes were transferred from Cousins to Kinahan ( both Alliance ) and from Kinahan in Stage IX to Dickson and McLachlan ( both UPNI ) . |