Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They tried to eject him from the podium . |
| 2 | They 'd taken her from the police cells after two days . |
| 3 | I fell down in a kind of madness , and they had to carry me from the room . |
| 4 | They had removed him from the stifling atmosphere of the Court , but already he was finding that Civil Service protocol could be just as oppressive . |
| 5 | Last time I had been to Paris they had rescued me from the freezing streets and hungry wolf packs . ) |
| 6 | When they had taken him from the hospital block with his possessions and spare clothes in a cloth sack he had smiled and shaken hands and believed that the flight was close , Berlin he had thought it would be . |
| 7 | We happen to know from the historian Livy that a city called Morgantina was settled by the Romans with a group of Spaniards who were fighting on their side in Sicily , after they had captured it from the Carthaginians in 211BC , and the coins thereby enabled the site to be identified as that of Morgantina . |
| 8 | They intended to kill him from the start … . ’ |