Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] from [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The army would also reopen its ranks to Hutus , who were purged from it after the ethnic warfare of 1972 . |
| 2 | Tolkien shrank from that last , and recorded ( UT , p. 385 ) a rival theory that the orcs were bred from something like the Drúedain , the pûkel-men . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , Denis and I provided the background music for this particular ‘ pack in the box ’ and much hissing was heard from me in the interval into the ear of our Company Manager Jeremy Adams . |
| 4 | And Sheffield Crown Court has heard how a man allegedly kidnapped and raped his wife ; the man who ca n't be named for legal reasons , was separated from her at the time of the supposed attack , and the case is making legal history . |
| 5 | Even the heavily fortified town of Berwick-upon-Tweed , on the Scottish bank of the river , was wrested from them by the English over and over again , and finally lost . |
| 6 | She did n't know any of the names ; she smiled and shook hands and was passed from one to the other like a parcel . |
| 7 | The Canadian dissenters also said that information was withheld from them during the investigation . |
| 8 | As McKerrow put it : " much of what we strive to find out was not and could not be known to those of the period which we study , for it was veiled from them by the life of everyday . " |