Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a BCP politburo and secretariat member until mid-1988 , he had been widely regarded as the person most likely to lead political reform in Bulgaria , but he had been dismissed abruptly from the party leadership in July 1988 [ see p. 36304 ] . |
| 2 | The journey , however , proves to be a descent into hell , for Comala turns out to be a ghost town which has been devastated by the oppression of his father , the tyrannical landowner Pedro Páramo , and whose few remaining inhabitants live in despair , convinced that they have been banished forever from the grace of God . |
| 3 | Fearfully , Seb drew closer and could see her dress had been ripped down from the neck to waist . |
| 4 | Yet more paradoxically , in a book where the mystery has , so to speak , been given away from the start there still has to be " fair play " . |
| 5 | By mid December the main flow of the Tara had been diverted away from the base of the dam . |
| 6 | He was glad of the moon , for he had been walking away from the road and the quarry for a long time and had reached the rising , stony ground at the foot of the foin . |
| 7 | This softly layered bob has been teased back from the face and dressed with wax |
| 8 | The single page has obviously been torn away from the Treasury tag that once attached it to its fellows and there is no sign of the promised annexes . |
| 9 | The gap in the paper where it has been torn away from the seal is a desirable human touch rather than a blemish . |
| 10 | He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act . |
| 11 | And not expecting everything to look as if it 's been lifted straight from the page of a glossy foodie magazine . ’ |
| 12 | Previously , investigations like this had been done mainly from the outsider 's point of view , and it was men like Evans-Pritchard ( 1902–73 ) , Radcliffe-Brown ( 1881–1955 ) , and , particularly , Malinowski ( 1884–1942 ) , who determined that the only really effective way of understanding the way of life of these peoples was to go and live among them for an extended period of time , learning their language , and becoming accepted as a member of their social groups . |
| 13 | In the summer Henry James used to work in the ‘ Garden Room ’ which had been built apart from the house as a banqueting room . |
| 14 | The station resembled the early Earth Pioneer space stations which had been built outwards from the home planet to the stars . |
| 15 | A very curly perm has been shaped away from the face |
| 16 | As has been seen clearly from the English and Welsh experience , the initial sales of subsidiaries of the Scottish Bus Group may be only the beginning of a long and complicated saga . |
| 17 | These refugees have been moved away from the border to facilitate military operations and now must endure life on the barren and wind-swept interior plateau . |
| 18 | Ageing machinery that opens or teases wool , a ‘ fearnought ’ , has also been moved away from the blend bins and a new one inserted at an earlier stage of production . |
| 19 | He had been turned away from the door of a local clan chief and needed a place to spend the night . |
| 20 | He had a feeling that they 'd been waiting right from the start of the trip . |
| 21 | The other members of this committee have sometimes been drawn exclusively from the majority group leadership . |
| 22 | There were other things he would not tell her either , such as the reason he had been called away from the restaurant . |
| 23 | Command of the main army was entrusted for the moment to a veteran Huguenot general , Sir John [ later first Earl of ] Ligonier , aged 65 , who had also been called back from the Continent , though it was understood he would become subordinate to Cumberland as soon as the latter was ready to take over . |
| 24 | At that moment Lesley-Jane saw your face — she told me you ‘ looked over your shoulder at her ’ but I did n't at the time realise that meant you must have been facing away from the stage . |
| 25 | Social roles within each of the groups have been isolated primarily from the accounts given by fans and from prolonged observation in the London Road End . |
| 26 | It is in the heart of Manchester , but for many years industry and commerce have been moving away from the city centre , increasing the risk that only a lifeless core will be left . |
| 27 | The camps were spotted by pilots flying supplies to Nagorny Karabakh , which has been sealed off from the rest of Azerbaijan for several months . |
| 28 | They might just possibly have been able to find the morning 's path if they 'd been starting again from the road , but tracking backwards was incredibly difficult . |
| 29 | Jack Foley began , but then he saw the car that had been pulled away from the corner where it had crashed . |
| 30 | The hut seemed to be as he had last seen it except that the settee had been pulled out from the wall to the centre of the room . |