Example sentences of "[pron] had been [verb] from a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the end of hostilities he had had a permanent roof over his head , but no other aspect of his life had improved radically , whereas I had been passed from a doting father to a doting husband . |
| 2 | For some reason quite beyond Harry 's comprehension , somebody had been thrown from a window in Prague in the year of grace 1618 and this had provoked thirty years of bloody conflict all over Europe . |
| 3 | He challenged the validity of a search warrant which had been obtained from a sheriff , alleging that statements by inquiry officers about a flickering light being seen at a bedroom window were a blatant and malicious fabrication . |
| 4 | Indeed on the nineteenth of January the Noble Earl Lord told me that of the three hundred and sixty letters which had been received from a wide variety of organisations representing people of totally different political opinions and that following the publication of the White Paper . |
| 5 | She boasted that she had two bedrooms and a bathroom , which had been constructed from a third bedroom . |
| 6 | He admitted handling over four hundred pounds which had been stolen from a post office in Reading . |
| 7 | In one condition he showed them a series of objects which had been bought from a joke shop : a piece of rubber cheese , a chicken 's egg made of stone , and so forth . |
| 8 | Subsequently another volume of poems , several notebooks , and a book of liturgical devotions were discovered ; in 1964 the discovery of a manuscript of Select Meditations was announced ; and in 1982 a large manuscript entitled Commentaries of Heaven , which had been rescued from a burning rubbish tip in south Lancashire about 1967 , was identified as Traherne 's . |
| 9 | She felt as if she had been woken from a deep sleep and was conscious of pulling her mind back , painfully , as if it had been a kite out there , held to her by only a string . |
| 10 | Last week , in contrast , a Florida jury cleared a vagrant accused of the rape of a 22-year-old woman who had been snatched from a Fort Lauderdale restaurant car park while wearing a white mini-skirt and , so the jury was informed , no underwear . |
| 11 | The celebrity was a monosyllabic professional footballer who had been transferred from a Scottish club to a fashionable one in London . |
| 12 | The tireless charity worker , who had been suffering from a long illness , had overcome his own difficulties to talk of his hopes and plans for others . |
| 13 | A year later , in October 1980 , after they had been dislodged from a public vigil in the main square of San Salvador , they occupied the offices of the Ministry of Justice . |
| 14 | They had been selected from a pile of ‘ sets ’ which the Second Son had gleaned from the finest merchants in Abu Dhabi and brought to the Sheikha . |
| 15 | Lost on their way , they had been rescued from a Chaos attack by the Treeman Oakheart and his people . |
| 16 | An interesting finding was the similarity of the samples from the same lacquered object , even if they had been taken from a different layer or area . |
| 17 | A vidicon TV camera can provide an input to such systems , and the image from the TV camera is stored in a memory bank just as if it had been read from a disc file ( as would be the case with a remotely-sensed image ( Chapter 5 ) ) . |
| 18 | He had been lifted from a detention cell and given the job of English teacher because the Colonel liked a boy who could smile into the face of an interrogator who wielded a rubber truncheon . |
| 19 | ( S. ) 487 , where a young woman who had been raped took part in an attack on the man responsible , after he had been released from a sentence of 18 month 's imprisonment after serving six months . |
| 20 | Evidence of a psychologist was heard on the voir dire , the essence of whose testimony was that when B had made the admissions he had been suffering from a relatively mild form of paranoid psychosis , the effect of which was that , under the stress of questioning , he would have felt very threatened , been likely to tell lies , and to make untrue admissions . |