Example sentences of "[noun] were [verb] from [noun prp] [prep] " 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 | The seeds of these two sorts were sent from Peru by Mr. Joseph de Jussieu to the Royal garden at Paris , part of which was sent me by his brother Bernard de Jussieu of the Royal Academy of Science ’ |
| 5 | Two crates containing 1,000 Garter snakes were shipped from Miami to London . |
| 6 | Hortense and her sons also went into exile , for all the Bonapartes were banished from France in perpetuity , by a decree of Louis XVIII , and as a result of the hostility of the major European States Hortense had great difficulty in finding some corner of Europe where she could set up home . |
| 7 | Ten giant squirrels were imported from Indonesia by a British zoo , the animals were stuffed into narrow plastic tubes no bigger than their bodies and stacked in a wooden crate . |
| 8 | Between 1975-85 , 82 sea eagles were imported from Norway to be reintroduced into Scotland . |
| 9 | The United States Virgin Islands were purchased from Denmark in 1917 . |
| 10 | More than 100 foreign aid workers were evacuated from Juba on Jan. 29-30 , benefiting from a brief ceasefire called by the SPLA . |
| 11 | The Azerbaijan Supreme Soviet , meeting in emergency session , on Jan. 22 threatened that unless all troops were withdrawn from Azerbaijan within 48 hours it would call a referendum on Azerbaijan 's session from the Soviet Union . |
| 12 | Conservative and radical scientific ideas were disseminated from Paris by naturalists and anatomists returning home inspired by what they had heard . |
| 13 | Both corn and cattle were exported from Britain under the Romans , which shows how successful their way of farming became . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Unlike the earlier conflict , British armies were expelled from Europe for four years . |
| 16 | Divorcee Rebecca Gunner and daughters Sarah and Nicola were flying from Amsterdam for a sunshine break on the Algarve , Portugal . |
| 17 | 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 ] . |
| 18 | Over more than 60 years , an estimated 150,000 children including some from Merseyside were shipped from Britain to distant parts of the Empire . |
| 19 | Our observations of the maser emission were made from January to June 1992 with the Nobeyana 45-m telescope . |
| 20 | Apologies ; for absence were received from Mrs. V. Hawkins . |
| 21 | Apologies ; for absence were received from Mrs. V. Hawkins . |
| 22 | Eight Soviet diplomats were expelled from Norway for espionage according to an announcement of Oct. 21 [ for last such expulsions , in mid-1987 , see p. 36242 ] . |
| 23 | Pilot Timothy Gower and his two passengers were returning from Dublin after watching England play Ireland . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The terrifying near miss took place 4,500 ft above RAF Waddington , Lincs , as the riders were flying from Newbury to York races . |
| 27 | One week several AEs were sacked from DPR for their inability to convey the concept of financial futures . |
| 28 | Hong Kong island was ceded to the United Kingdom under the Treaty of Nanking in 1842 ; the Kowloon Peninsula was acquired by the convention of Peking ( Beijing ) in 1860 ; the New Territories were leased from China in 1898 for a period of 99 years . |
| 29 | Hong Kong island was ceded to the United Kingdom under the Treaty of Nanking in 1842 ; the Kowloon Peninsula was acquired by the convention of Peking in 1860 ; the New Territories were leased from China in 1898 for a period of 99 years . |
| 30 | Both men were banned from Switzerland for 10 years but only SFr85,000 of their money was confiscated . |