Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although they were later acquitted of illegally importing arms and ammunition for use in the North , they were dismissed from the cabinet for their part in the affair . |
| 2 | ‘ I told them that they were barred from the club from now on . |
| 3 | But they were cut from the programme after it overran by 10 minutes . |
| 4 | Jack did not like flowers , or rather said he was ‘ bothered ’ by them , and they were banished from the upstairs rooms . |
| 5 | Many were kicked and beaten by eight or more stewards before being flung into the street : ‘ In nearly every case they were bleeding from the head and face and their clothing was badly torn … . ’ |
| 6 | They were made from the road , without Mr Freitag even crossing the garden gate let alone probing around the bedrooms . |
| 7 | In the crowds were to be found most kinds of urban and industrial workers but hardly ever farm labourers ; in many cases they were shielded from the market by receiving part of their wages in kind , and in general the authority structure of the countryside was sufficient to deter them from rioting . |
| 8 | It seems to hang threateningly over the village , with massive detached boulders of slate ready to topple if you put a foot wrong , and great heaps of rubble lie where they were detached from the rock face by gunpowder , which was also made in the vicinity . |
| 9 | Seated together on a bench seat by a warm hearth , it seemed to Joan that they were isolated from the intrigue and controversy that were presently raging around the royal family . |
| 10 | They were isolated from the crowd , their arms linked , the woman gazing up in to his face . |
| 11 | There they were dragged from the truck to Mr Stokle 's Vauxhall Viva car , which had followed . |
| 12 | Creed opened the glass panel one morning as they were returning from the airport and said , ‘ Where do you live , Spaghetti ? ’ |
| 13 | Immediately afterwards the UDF deputies announced that they were withdrawing from the GNA indefinitely . |
| 14 | The two other presidential candidates , Alfonso Santos of the Christian Democratic Front and Guadalupe de Seita , an independent , announced at the end of February that they were withdrawing from the ballot , complaining that government funds had been made available for the Trovoada campaign . |
| 15 | Two days later letters arrived saying they were banned from the club . |
| 16 | They were doomed from the day — admittedly belated — in 2007 when the European Community 's economic and monetary union ( EMU ) became reality and its 29 currencies merged in the ecu . |
| 17 | ‘ They were doomed from the moment they entered the Net , ’ Lacuna said . |
| 18 | They were established from the beginning of 1910 . |
| 19 | The living room ceiling was hung with bunting , the kitchen smelt of roast turkey , the house was full of people who all knew each other intimately , the videos had been ordered and the sideboard was laden with drink and in fact everyone behaved just like it was a real family Christmas , except that Boy had sex with two other men in the bathroom , and they did n't even bother to lock the door because they knew that no one else there would mind , knew that they did n't have to hide what they were doing from the rest of the party . |
| 20 | A checklist of predictors was applied to the maternity notes of all non-Asian women who had delivered a child under consultant care when they were discharged from the maternity unit . |
| 21 | The buyer failed to collect them and they were stolen from the seller 's warehouse . |
| 22 | The sounds of shouting and gunshots might have alarmed Ianthe had she not realised that they were coming from the television programme in the basement . |
| 23 | Those two quotes about ’ absolute rubbish ’ and ’ a quick fix ’ are not my words ; they were taken from the speech made on Thursday last week by the chairman of British Coal . |
| 24 | Later they were dropped from the cast . |
| 25 | Leeds City , or the Peacocks as they were known from the gold V-shaped band on their blue strip , climbed to a more secure position in mid-table in the months after Chapman took over . |
| 26 | Farmers , concerned about the disappearance of casual labour , built dwellings on their land which would ensure a pool of workers and these houses were known as ‘ tied ’ houses because they were rented from the employer rather than ‘ open ’ houses rented directly from the landowner . |
| 27 | They could no longer hang or burn them but they were expelled from the church and all its sacraments and services , which at that time was a very severe punishment |
| 28 | They could no longer hang or burn them but they were expelled from the church and all its sacraments and services , which at that time was a very severe punishment |
| 29 | If they did not make it they were excluded from the event . |
| 30 | For the first eleven years following its introduction , ICA offered one of the most explicit examples of the assumption that married women are ( or should be ) economically inactive and financially dependent upon an earning husband — until 1986 they were excluded from the benefit on the grounds that ‘ they might be at home in any event ’ ( DHSS , 1974 , para. 60 ) . |