Example sentences of "he was [verb] from [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was transferred from Liverpool in around ‘ 87 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He was flown from Edinburgh to Manchester airport before being taken for a tearful re-union with his mother 's parents . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | He was rusticated from Cambridge for a year , and never returned . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Ostrovsky had left Israel for Canada , his birthplace , in 1986 when he was dismissed from Mossad after working for them for some 17 months . |
| 11 | His extraordinary conceit and capacity for intrigue spilled over into a genuine mental instability and in 1869 he was removed from Rome to a lunatic asylum in a convent at Passy , a suburb of Paris . |
| 12 | He was expelled from QUB after a conviction which resulted from a too-well-celebrated student society dinner . |
| 13 | As always , he was driven from St-Cloud in his black Rolls Royce Phantom ; as always , when his driver held back the door , and he climbed out , he looked up at Lassalle 's building , that tall dark tower , and then passed inside . |
| 14 | This evidence sheds valuable light , therefore , not only on the first recorded Northumbrian royal overtures to the Frankish court but also on the disturbed state of the kingdom on the eve of Alhred 's expulsion in 774 when he was driven from York at Easter ( ASC D , s.a. 774 ) into exile among the Picts . |
| 15 | Despite the fact that he was dropped from Greenpeace in 1977 for being too much of an activist , it seems that he is not blindly reckless . |
| 16 | This was a disaster , as by then he could barely play and he was retrieved from Naples by a Russian family , who took him home to die . |