Example sentences of "and was [verb] from [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The meal was finished , his father had returned to the newspaper , rather deflated at his family 's lack of appreciation of his vice-presidency , and his mother had finished her ice cream and was rising from the table . |
| 2 | They finally halted in a rough copse of thorn that had lopsided boulders scattered about it and was sheltered from the wind by the long shoulder of a hill . |
| 3 | Biff had drawn up a stool nearby and was drinking from a hip flask enjoying the spectacle . |
| 4 | It was substantially enlarged from £30 million per annum to about £125 million per annum , and was transferred from the Home Office ( where it had been since 1968 ) to the Department of the Environment . |
| 5 | ‘ Come on , ’ Ace yelled , willing the motors to sacrifice their entire future lifetimes of useful work for just a few more horsepower now — and with a grinding , tearing , roaring noise the platform cracked , buckled , and was ripped from the side of the building . |
| 6 | He seems to have had no direct connection with the other publishing Ranters ( although Joseph Salmon , q.v. , refers to him ) , but on 14 March 1650 Bauthumley was bored through the tongue with a hot iron for blasphemy , had his sword broken over his head , and was cashiered from the army . |
| 7 | And was barred from the dance by a steward . |
| 8 | Once when dancing with Minton at the Gargoyle and hearing some Guards officers making snide remarks he walked up to the table , laden with food and champagne , where they were sitting with their ladies and overturned the lot , and was barred from the club for about two weeks . |
| 9 | In February 1940 , Flying Officer Douglas Bader , who had lost his legs in a flying accident nine years earlier and was discharged from the RAF , rejoined and was posted to Duxford , and soon became a celebrated officer in Fighter Command , complete with tin legs , although he ended the war in Colditz . |
| 10 | Described as a colourful character , with his shovel hat and official cloak , he met with an accident on the great day and was tipped from a cart . |
| 11 | CATH 's largest hostel for 19 men , Roodee House , is the former friary of St Francis ' , and was bought from the church in 1985 by Muir Housing Association . |
| 12 | They are , in fact , the beaches of ice-drained lakes left behind by successive falls in the glacier as it melted and was released from the valley at the end of the Ice Age . |
| 13 | Interrogated by a Commons committee , he failed to answer questions ‘ clearly and ingenuously ’ and was suspended from the House for over a year . |
| 14 | Within a day the vet phoned me with the news that the dog had two intact testicles ( a matter I 'd hardly been musing upon ) and was suffering from a bit of diarrhoea — but had been put on a milk diet which would soon clear it up . |
| 15 | The loco was built in 1956 and was rescued from the scrap torch of Barry by a five-man group — the Bolton Steam Locomotive Company . |
| 16 | However , that does n't have an effect on our er ability to agree a figure of three three for the city itself , in the structure plan , because the work we 've done on the local plan taking into account commitments and suitable allowances for small sites , does indicate to us that a figure of three three is achievable , but would be extremely difficult to exceed , the difference here between the four thousand and the three three does , however , have an impact on our neighbours clearly , and as was mentioned yesterday the City Council does own some some twenty nine hectares of land outside its current boundary , er located in the Ryedale District Council area , that land , some of that land has planning consent , the remainder is allocated in the draft Southern Ryedale local plan and was excluded from the greenbelt , that land it is the City Council 's intention to use to meet its er requirements for affordable housing , could accommodate some seven hundred dwellings , I think it is very important for me to emphasize that that is a very clear commitment of the City Council , and therefore that land in Ryedale would not er in the majority of its case be available for open market use , we would be seeking to use it to meet er affordable housing requirements . |
| 17 | The biggest authenticated barbel caught in Britain on rod and line weighed 16lb 1Oz , and was taken from the Hampshire Avon by a salmon angler . |
| 18 | Primarily , I greatly respected the culture and customs of the people and , as a western woman , although free to dress in my own cultural fashion , I dressed respectfully for an Islamic country and covered my hair , arms and legs and wore loose fitting clothes , so I felt comfortable drawing and was protected from the heat of the sun . |
| 19 | A back staircase , originally for servants , ran from ground-floor level to attics and was entered from a door to which Ian , Theodora and the clergy had keys . |
| 20 | The youngest of whom , she discovered , was only six weeks old , and was brought from the bedroom in an elderly bassinet to be fed , not mother 's milk , but some patent milk powder made up with the dubious water from the outside tap . |
| 21 | During a brief adjournment , Emma and Rebecca 's mother , Mrs Vicki Harper , broke down , sobbing loudly and was helped from the court by officials and family . |
| 22 | I could n't hear and was crying from the pain , but I saw him put his foot sideways into Marius 's midriff . |
| 23 | The main Derby — Chesterfield road ran along the other flank and this was fenced off with rabbit-proof wire netting and was screened from the road by a long , narrow spinney . |
| 24 | On her release she refused to hand the paper over to other Communist party members , and was expelled from the party . |