Example sentences of "were [vb pp] from the [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1867 , whilst excavating in the ancient theatre at Ephesus , he found an inscription in Greek referring to some gold and silver statuettes , which , on festive days , were carried from the temple to the theatre by way of the Magnesian Gate . |
| 2 | In May 1990 border troops were transferred from the Defence to the Interior Ministry . |
| 3 | Large numbers of troops on both sides were moved from the south to the north of the front , following the deadlock on the River Aisne . |
| 4 | Lack et al and Walker et al reported that bile acid sulphates were absorbed from the intestine to a lesser extent than their unesterified parent substances . |
| 5 | Transfers and new appointments were made from the mainland to BBC Northern Ireland so that it became almost as firmly a government instrument as , for instance , the army 's information office in Lisburn . |
| 6 | There they were dragged from the truck to Mr Stokle 's Vauxhall Viva car , which had followed . |
| 7 | At the very moment that the weak and young and old were brought from the Sprinkleroom to the railway station , as good as new , so their menfolk completed the appointed term of labour service and ventured forth to claim them , on the ramp , a trifle dishevelled to be sure , but strong and sleek from their regime of hard work and strict diet . |
| 8 | I said today to my right hon. Friend the Member for Sparkbrook that if the Oliver Twist story were translated from the workhouse to a prison , the person who drew the short straw and was sent to protest about the food would come within the net of the Bill . |
| 9 | In the study area what actually happened was that food crops were displaced from the head to the end of the fertilizer rotation in more than half the cases . |
| 10 | Then came the consignment of houseplants for the offices , tradescantia and sanseveria and ficus elasica that were doomed from the start to dehydration and ultimately to have their pots serve as repositories for cigarette ash . |
| 11 | We were jolted from the Delta to the coast , where we disappeared into a giant galvanised iron shed . |