Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't tell much about him as he was covered from head to toe in red crash helmet with black visor , red riding leathers and red boots . |
| 2 | He refused to comment as he was bundled from court with his girlfriend into a waiting car . |
| 3 | He was grinning from ear to ear and pointing his finger up to the flies . |
| 4 | ‘ Get on with it , Ruthie , ’ he told her , and though he was grinning from ear to ear she knew what was powering him and she felt the excitement blossom in herself . |
| 5 | He was grinning from ear to ear and the first stabs of doubt needled at Ruth 's heart . |
| 6 | He was transferred from Liverpool in around ‘ 87 . |
| 7 | He was not only a fine footballer , he was also a gentleman to the Nth degree , and he told the story , I remember , he started his erm , professional football career in this country , with Barnsley , and he was transferred from Barnsley to Aston Villa , and at the time there was some haggling over the fee , and er , he was taken by the chairman of Barnsley , to meet the chairman of Aston Villa in the chairman 's Rolls Royce . |
| 8 | In middle age he became more patient as he was harried from city to city and lost all his papers in a shipwreck . |
| 9 | ‘ I believe he was lost from time to time , but that of course is inevitable in a down-market operation . |
| 10 | He was flown from Edinburgh to Manchester airport before being taken for a tearful re-union with his mother 's parents . |
| 11 | The irony of excessive expenses incurred for Karl Marx 's daughter was n't lost on Rosenberg , but Aveling called his accusations ridiculous , and he was defended from England by Engels who brushed off Aveling 's embezzlements as the pranks of a boyish ‘ noodle ’ . |
| 12 | As an architect he was sent from Durham in 1364 to Coldingham priory , a Scottish dependency , and in 1367–74 had charge of building the great kitchen of Durham priory , with its remarkable vault of Spanish inspiration . |
| 13 | Another day he was sent from Washington to a Chinese vegetable stand on the Lower West Side in Manhattan , where he was told to ask for a person with the code name ‘ Mooey ’ ; Mooey went behind the counter , rolled up his trouser-leg and pulled out a wad of hundred-dollar bills , which Owen thought ‘ I had better count anyways . ’ |
| 14 | He was rusticated from Cambridge for a year , and never returned . |
| 15 | There is evidence to suggest that he was descended from Judas of Galilee , leader of the Zealots a century and a quarter before , and from the Zealot commanders at the capture and subsequent siege of Masada . |
| 16 | It may be that Aethelwald 's genealogy does not survive because his family did not claim descent from Ida and it is possible that he was descended from Oswine of Deira . |
| 17 | He was dressed from head to foot in white . |
| 18 | When I first saw him I could n't believe my eyes — he was dressed from head to toe in khaki . |
| 19 | Though he was questioned from time to time about radical plots and was even for a while held in the Tower , his claim to be moved now by conscience and not by political faction seems to have been accepted . |
| 20 | He was gone from sight of man for eight months . |
| 21 | He was buffeted from side to side , and swore in what Anne thought was an Australian accent . |
| 22 | During his brave and daring life he came up against many dangers , none so well remembered and retold as the story of how he was saved from death at the hands of the Red Indians by Pocohontas , daughter of Chief Powhattan . |
| 23 | He was saved from isolation of the mind by a lucky proximity . |
| 24 | Ostrovsky had left Israel for Canada , his birthplace , in 1986 when he was dismissed from Mossad after working for them for some 17 months . |
| 25 | Then , on D'Arcy 's insistence , he was passed from extension to extension . |
| 26 | She looked at Phil ; he was encased from top to toe in black leather , as always . |
| 27 | Hector , as eager as she for the only brief release he was allowed from confinement in the bedchamber , trotted at her heels , obedient to her call . |
| 28 | He was released from prison on Feb. 9 , 1990 , and held a seventh meeting with Arafat on March 9 . |
| 29 | He was released from prison in September . |
| 30 | He was released from prison after thirty months , returned to his barker 's job in San Francisco and took up with a stripper . |