Example sentences of "[vb past] been [vb pp] [adv] 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 | In the summer Henry James used to work in the ‘ Garden Room ’ which had been built apart from the house as a banqueting room . |
| 3 | The station resembled the early Earth Pioneer space stations which had been built outwards from the home planet to the stars . |
| 4 | A provincial assembly of the clergy , to which proctors came in greater numbers than to parliament and which all abbots and priors were entitled to attend , was increasingly the body through which the clergy were taxed ; gradually the name of convocation , which had been applied haphazardly from the early twelfth century to a variety of ecclesiastical gatherings , was reserved for this assembly . |
| 5 | There were other things he would not tell her either , such as the reason he had been called away from the restaurant . |
| 6 | Previously , investigations like this had been done mainly from the outsider 's point of view , and it was men like Evans-Pritchard ( 1902–73 ) , Radcliffe-Brown ( 1881–1955 ) , and , particularly , Malinowski ( 1884–1942 ) , who determined that the only really effective way of understanding the way of life of these peoples was to go and live among them for an extended period of time , learning their language , and becoming accepted as a member of their social groups . |
| 7 | We noticed the man 's wallet had been cut away from the belt round his waist . |
| 8 | As a BCP politburo and secretariat member until mid-1988 , he had been widely regarded as the person most likely to lead political reform in Bulgaria , but he had been dismissed abruptly from the party leadership in July 1988 [ see p. 36304 ] . |
| 9 | The track had become a shallow river : the clay had been eaten away from the broken rock and pebble surface , and the front wheel of the motor cycle kicked continuously against the handlebars . |
| 10 | By mid December the main flow of the Tara had been diverted away from the base of the dam . |
| 11 | French military reinforcements , 150 troops , had been flown in from the Central African Republic to evacuate foreign nationals in Kigali . |
| 12 | He had been turned away from the door of a local clan chief and needed a place to spend the night . |
| 13 | Dacourt estimated we had killed scores of our assailants but only three corpses were dragged in , all of them casualties of the ladder which had been pushed away from the outer wall . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Jack Foley began , but then he saw the car that had been pulled away from the corner where it had crashed . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It did not surprise Hugh to see that the stack had been scattered abroad from the original untidy pile dumped thus , and most of the seasoned timber removed , leaving the flattened bushes plain to be seen . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Earlier it had been drawn overwhelmingly from the privileged strata , the sons of the landed nobility and higher ranks of the civil service , and only a few outstanding figures had emerged as pioneers in the ‘ gentry stage ’ of the revolutionary movement . |
| 22 | It was a perfect site because the building , for which a quarter of a million pounds ( £8,250,000 ) had been set aside from the Twentieth Century Fund , was meant to be ‘ a challenge to the Church of England ’ . |
| 23 | The word had been handed down from the so-called serial killer , Alan Yentob , the newly-appointed BBC1 controller . |
| 24 | ‘ But , if the body had been brought in from the Met area , we would not necessarily have been alerted . ’ |
| 25 | It would not be the first time that a Court sorcerer had been lured away from the strong pure magic of Ireland and sworn allegiance to the Dark Realm . |