Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Main Road , Bicknacre , a wheel was stolen from the boot of a Ford Escort XR3 . |
| 2 | On Wednesday a purse was snatched from the counter of a shop in Alton High Street . |
| 3 | Certain stock was missing from the infirmary , including a number of mackintosh sheets . |
| 4 | When the reply card was received from the mother , a poster was sent , addressed to her baby , with a personalised covering letter wishing the baby well from the Better Shoe company . |
| 5 | It was also at about this time that further investment was made from the school 's capitation , with a teletext receiver being installed . |
| 6 | The same result was obtained from the combination of polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies ( as a secondary antibody ) . |
| 7 | The game was abandoned , Athletico fined £270 and the club was disqualified from the competition for two seasons . |
| 8 | Instead a reply was sent from the Department of the Environment who have the job of implementing existing Conservative policy . |
| 9 | The £4 ft by 8ft plastic pond was taken from the yard of Overdale Primary School in Eastfield where it was being stored before being sunk into the ground as part of a nature garden . |
| 10 | Its complement was to rise from the initial 3,000 to 4,200 ( ie full peacetime strength ) one year later . |
| 11 | The hostility of the Soviet bloc was pronounced from the outset and is illustrated in the refusal of Ukraine to participate in UNTCOK . |
| 12 | Her body was found when her car was recovered from the water at Stonebench . |
| 13 | After incubation of the oligonucleotide/bead complex with brain or HeLa nuclear cell extract under similiar conditions to those used in gel retardation ( 100mM buffer D ) the enriched complex was separated from the cell extract by use of a magnet . |
| 14 | The Anarkali was dark and quiet and a lot of the light was coming from the candle between us . |
| 15 | In the spacious tea-rooms , a sparkling light was suspended from the ceiling , a man in a suit played the piano and most customers wore hats even daintier than Gloria 's new one . |
| 16 | According to British Rail press officer Sue McInstry the term was filched from the navy . |
| 17 | According to British Rail press officer Sue McInstry the term was filched from the navy . |
| 18 | Some of the signs resemble symbols from a Mesopotamian script pre-dating cuneiform , which suggests that the script was imported from the east . |
| 19 | The heavy plaque was stolen from the war memorial in King 's Gardens , Bootle , four weeks ago . |
| 20 | It is incredible to think that this trunk was collected from the house by the station Lorry , was sent by rail , Luggage in Advance , and was awaiting us when we arrived at our grandparents ' house . |
| 21 | The protein was eluted from the gel and renatured as described ( 33 ) with minor modifications . |
| 22 | Reflux of gastric biocarbonate into the oesophagus was determined from the appearance of gastric marker [ 1 4 C ] PEG in osophageal aspirates and bicarbonate concentration of gastric fluid . |
| 23 | Blood was pouring from the side of the Doctor 's face . |
| 24 | The daylight was fleeing from the wilderness that he could not see but whose emptiness beyond the shuttered windows he understood . |
| 25 | The main concern of their administration was to profit from the monopoly over cinnamon , the principal export commodity . |
| 26 | Four years ago this horse was saved from the knacker 's yard . |
| 27 | It was raining hard now , and the wind was screaming from the back of the ship . |
| 28 | The wind was blowing from the sea and he instinctively opened his wings , leaned round into it and circled up and back , quartering the cliffs around him with his eyes to see what or who was there . |
| 29 | On this cold January afternoon , it was already dark outside , and a bitter wind was blowing from the north . |
| 30 | And the fire actually started beyond the North Wall , just by the North Gate , but the wind was blowing from the North , and it blew it down , and although it did n't burn the rather better stone houses , facing onto St Aldate 's , erm behind I think a lot of the poorer houses did suffer , and St Ebbe 's parish , next door , suffered a great deal , and because it was war , I think they just , the city council , city records lament that there how hard it is for people , and there 's no money to help them . |