Example sentences of "[vb past] be [vb pp] [adv prt] from the " 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 | French military reinforcements , 150 troops , had been flown in from the Central African Republic to evacuate foreign nationals in Kigali . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The word had been handed down from the so-called serial killer , Alan Yentob , the newly-appointed BBC1 controller . |
| 9 | ‘ But , if the body had been brought in from the Met area , we would not necessarily have been alerted . ’ |