Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] from a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slater , a hotel chef trained at the Culinary Institute of America in New York ( he has worked at a restaurant in Kensington ) , got his first headlines by being sacked from a grocery store deli counter because of his Klan activities . |
| 2 | An elderly man has died after being rescued from a house fire . |
| 3 | Data are also being collected from a control group drawn from the output of conventional courses . |
| 4 | The lecturer was at first impatient at being called from a tutorial session , before his vanity was fed the magical words of ‘ Foreign and Commonwealth Office ’ . |
| 5 | This car was stripped out and written off after being stolen from a car park . |
| 6 | … She asked why Blanche did not like my book and I kindly suggested that perhaps it was the woman being scarred from a motor accident which she did n't like ( it was the book itself ) . |