Example sentences of "had fled from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The populace generally played little part in that agitation , but when Wilkes returned from the exile in 1768 to which he had fled from fear of imprisonment , debt and the fighting of a duel , to fight the Middlesex election , he became the symbol of a much wider agitation .
2 Here they were , a nomadic people they had fled from Egypt from the , from the bondage and tyranny of oppression , and God had provided a land which was flowing with milk and honey , it was theirs !
3 The ruling was made in the case of Jairo Jonathan Elias Zacarias who had fled from Guatemala in 1987 after guerrillas had attempted forcibly to recruit him for military service .
4 There was a whisper amongst the servants that she had fled from Andrew in terror on the night of her return .
5 Moniba had fled from Liberia in September 1990 , after three months in hiding following attempts by him and others to persuade Doe to step down .
6 He and a friend had fled from Vienna over the border into Czechoslovakia .
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