Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been [verb] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The jaw tightened till it looked as if it had been carved from golden marble . |
| 2 | It had been exhumed from Locked Safe no. 5 where it usually stood between Pranks of Priapus and The Grecian Way of Love . |
| 3 | There is a story that Old Dobbin , even after he had been retired from active fire service , would still , by force of habit and for the excitement of it , try to get out of his stable to find his place between the fire-engine shafts whenever the alarm rang . |
| 4 | He had been promoted from general secretary to " president " of the LPRP at the party 's fifth congress the previous April [ see p. 38150 ] . |
| 5 | Because there was no doubt in her mind that he had been talking from personal experience . |
| 6 | I spoke to Sikh and Hindu children in Southall and none of them had been withdrawn from religious education lessons . |