Example sentences of "were [vb pp] from [noun prp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tanks were withdrawn from Tirana on Feb. 25 and the city was reported to be calm , but army patrols remained , and sporadic gunfire was reported each night until the end of the month . |
| 2 | The 38 captured guerrillas were extradited from Laos in January 1990 . |
| 3 | Hortense and her sons also went into exile , for all the Bonapartes were banished from France in perpetuity , by a decree of Louis XVIII , and as a result of the hostility of the major European States Hortense had great difficulty in finding some corner of Europe where she could set up home . |
| 4 | The waters were layered from October to May while ice was present , with temperatures close to freezing point near the surface but at 1–1.25°C near the bottom in 26 m . |
| 5 | Apologies ; for absence were received from Mrs. V. Hawkins . |
| 6 | Apologies ; for absence were received from Mrs. V. Hawkins . |
| 7 | The release of prisoners of war by Iraq was officially described as completed when a total of 45 prisoners-of-war had been handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross ( 10 on March 4 , comprising six US personnel , three British and one Italian , and 35 on March 5 , comprising 15 US , nine British , nine Saudis , an Italian and a Kuwaiti , who were flown from Baghdad to Riyadh on March 6 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ Jock ’ Norwell , Jim Pickering , Harry Ayre and ‘ Drac ’ Bowerman were flown from Luqa to Egypt in a Wellington piloted by newly-promoted and decorated Plt.Off . |
| 9 | More than 100 foreign aid workers were evacuated from Juba on Jan. 29-30 , benefiting from a brief ceasefire called by the SPLA . |
| 10 | Then the children were evacuated from London in fear of air raids and that made life difficult for many Sunday schools , since the London children wanted to show the local children how tough they were . |
| 11 | Between 1940 and 1944 some 76,000 Jews were deported from France to death camps ; 2,600 survived . |
| 12 | Conservative and radical scientific ideas were disseminated from Paris by naturalists and anatomists returning home inspired by what they had heard . |
| 13 | In Stage VIII votes were transferred from Cousins to Kinahan ( both Alliance ) and from Kinahan in Stage IX to Dickson and McLachlan ( both UPNI ) . |
| 14 | SIR — In early 1991 , about 15,000 Jews were airlifted from Ethiopia to Israel . |
| 15 | Our observations of the maser emission were made from January to June 1992 with the Nobeyana 45-m telescope . |
| 16 | Evidently the need to furnish an emerging capital with prestigious works of art remained important throughout antiquity and indeed in more recent times : Rome lost much , though temporarily , from Napoleon 's ambitious plans for embellishing Paris with famous works of art , and during the Second World War many artistic works were transported from Italy to Germany . |
| 17 | When the first 120 miles of the East India Railway were opened from Calcutta to Raniganj in 1855 , the ceremony took place at Burdwan station , a long classical structure 66 miles from Calcutta . |
| 18 | Two crates containing 1,000 Garter snakes were shipped from Miami to London . |
| 19 | Twenty flamingoes were shipped from Tanzania to London , on arrival three were dead , the other 17 had suffered multiple wounds to legs and wings from tight , non-elastic straps . |
| 20 | A bomb exploded on March 30 at the Addis Ababa Hilton hotel near the apartment of the new Israeli ambassador ( who had presented his credentials on March 23 ) , and two Libyan diplomats , reportedly held responsible , were expelled from Ethiopia on March 31 . |
| 21 | Eight Soviet diplomats were expelled from Norway for espionage according to an announcement of Oct. 21 [ for last such expulsions , in mid-1987 , see p. 36242 ] . |
| 22 | Customs officials have discovered that the onions were driven from Valencia in Spain to Dover and from there to Gateshead , before being driven south , first to Birmingham , then Evesham and discovery . |
| 23 | Instead they were driven from Sarajevo to Split in Croatia , and flown to England . |
| 24 | The children were taken from Orkney to mainland Scotland under Place of Safety orders . |
| 25 | Exports worth up to £0.5m. a year in the late seventeenth century were taken from India to England , often for re-export to the rest of the world , and this trade determined the flow of dividends . |
| 26 | By the 1780s Bath and Bristol as well as London were the receivers , via Exeter , of the 500 vanloads a year which were sent from Brixham in Devon . |
| 27 | The seeds of these two sorts were sent from Peru by Mr. Joseph de Jussieu to the Royal garden at Paris , part of which was sent me by his brother Bernard de Jussieu of the Royal Academy of Science ’ |
| 28 | The parts were ordered from Sweden in Spring 1987 . |