Example sentences of "they had [be] [verb] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They felt that through joining the movement they had been liberated from the ills of modern society and that they were at last free to make the world a better place and themselves better people . |
| 2 | Neither the crew of this vessel nor its captain , a certain Captain Robert Anderson who , I believe , is still at large , knew that they had been monitored from the moment they had left port by an American spy-in-the sky satellite . |
| 3 | The American people told him at the polls what they had been screaming from the rooftops for two years . |
| 4 | All of a sudden they realised they had been tricked from the very beginning . |
| 5 | They had been moved from the prison to Avicennes hospital in June after a serious deterioration in their condition . |
| 6 | I 'd like to ask the convenor erm how would he have er replied to a young woman who came to me fairly recently whose husband had just left home by mutual agreement , and for the sake of their children and er she said to me after he had gone er that the home was a much happier place now that there was , they had been freed from the tension that they had been going through in a very difficult time . |
| 7 | The meal that accompanied it was a feast , cooked and served by the patronne with justifiable pride : tiny moules marinières , which tasted as if they had been cut from the rocks that morning ; bifteck , brown and crisp on the outside , perfectly rare within ; a platter of thin crisp sizzling hot pommes frites ; an excellent salad , served in a plain white bowl . |
| 8 | They had been fleeing from the pursuing cloud front , but now they were charging to meet its attack . |
| 9 | But allegations that patients were not given adequate care after they had been discharged from the unit were , on balance , in this investigation , unproven . |
| 10 | We tend to think of the reptiles as somehow past their ‘ prime ’ , but it would be more accurate to say that they had been displaced from the top jobs in nature , while more than holding their own in the shop floor . |
| 11 | Most recently , in July 1991 , two fine Balthasar Denner heads of ‘ Old Women ’ were withdrawn from sale in London when it was learned that they had been looted from the Dresden Museum . |