Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv prt] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fearfully , Seb drew closer and could see her dress had been ripped down from the neck to waist . |
| 2 | This softly layered bob has been teased back from the face and dressed with wax |
| 3 | He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act . |
| 4 | Command of the main army was entrusted for the moment to a veteran Huguenot general , Sir John [ later first Earl of ] Ligonier , aged 65 , who had also been called back from the Continent , though it was understood he would become subordinate to Cumberland as soon as the latter was ready to take over . |
| 5 | The camps were spotted by pilots flying supplies to Nagorny Karabakh , which has been sealed off from the rest of Azerbaijan for several months . |
| 6 | The hut seemed to be as he had last seen it except that the settee had been pulled out from the wall to the centre of the room . |
| 7 | Ian had been travelling down from the States and through Mexico . |
| 8 | But if the daily figures had n't yet been brought over from the Ritz and Strand , he would stop off there too . |
| 9 | Below 700m many of the soils are man-made — the soils on the terraces having been brought up from the river mouths or down from the bases of the escarpments . |
| 10 | ‘ But , if the body had been brought in from the Met area , we would not necessarily have been alerted . ’ |
| 11 | It was n't likely that anyone would come that way , for the hen crees were situated in the field just beyond the hedge , and the sheep were there too , having been brought down from the hills after ten of their already small stock had been taken . |
| 12 | They are , indeed , reported by people who have been brought back from the edge of death — though mundane scientists tend to attribute them to the effects of oxygen starvation on a failing brain . |
| 13 | Joe , a 61-year-old housing supervisor , of Portland House , Longlands , said when he arrived at the loft yesterday morning the outer door had been nailed up from the outside . |
| 14 | All farms have rats and mice but in recent years they have been coming through from the barn into the house and getting into the furniture . |
| 15 | When Professor Aldini applied galvanism to the face of a felon who had just been cut down from the gallows , |
| 16 | Partly because the machinery of repression has been so all-embracing for so long , stifling any messages of opposition before they reached a platform , and partly because Romania has for so long been cut off from the mainstream of European thinking and political change , constructive ideas have been hard to come by . |
| 17 | From a purely philosophical point of view , teachers who have been cut off from the mainstream of educational activity should be helped to understand the dynamism that underlies a teacher 's personal development , the rapid changes in teaching situations and accepted methodologies , and also the changes which the target languages themselves are undergoing . |
| 18 | A detachment represents a body of troops that has been split off from the rest of their regiment and armed as small , independent units whose role is to operate within sight of their regiment . |
| 19 | ( The PPP figures have been scaled up from the World Bank 's 1990 figures . ) |
| 20 | In the Dialtext product virtually the entire Macintosh desktop has been blocked off from the user in order to prevent potential disasters like the erasure of disks or files . |
| 21 | ‘ Of course , all the islands are volcanic in the sense that they 've been thrown up from the depths by submarine upheavals thousands of years ago ; but only one of them 's got a crater . |
| 22 | The hull and the deck mouldings are identical to those of the earlier yacht , except that the transom has been raked back from the tuck to meet an extension of the deck . |
| 23 | In spite of the causal theory 's having been taken over from the rationalist , Descartes , it could be put to use in the interests of empiricism . |
| 24 | Last year an inquest was told how a milkman became suspicious when he noticed milk had not been taken in from the doorstep of the house . |
| 25 | The trouble is during the week , a lot of little shops only have what 's been left over from the weekend and their vegetables , cos that 's what happens at ours |
| 26 | She dragged herself from the sofa and listlessly prepared herself some lunch , making do with bread and Camembert cheese and some of the pâté which had been left over from the night before . |
| 27 | A 35.5 cm high Egyptian quartzite bust of Senbef , a court official in the reign of King Psamtik I , has been sent over from the United States for this two-day sale of Antiquities and is estimated to fetch £600–800,000 ( $1.1–1.5m ) . |
| 28 | ‘ Been sent back from the front , ‘ as n't it ? |
| 29 | I have been blotted out from the world . |
| 30 | So far the French had been fired on from the field on their left , now they would see an officer on the right of their advance . |