Example sentences of "was [verb] from [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , Denis and I provided the background music for this particular ‘ pack in the box ’ and much hissing was heard from me in the interval into the ear of our Company Manager Jeremy Adams . |
| 2 | Under the persuasion of the Bow Street Runners , information was wrung from them about a meeting of the Wokingham Blacks , and a complete troop of Horse Grenadiers was drafted down to the forest . |
| 3 | And Sheffield Crown Court has heard how a man allegedly kidnapped and raped his wife ; the man who ca n't be named for legal reasons , was separated from her at the time of the supposed attack , and the case is making legal history . |
| 4 | How did you tell a man who had just expressed his undying love for you and his need to remain in your arms for ever and ever that he was separated from you by a distance of fifty years , and that only by some perverse and cruel trick of time had you been allowed to meet at all ? |
| 5 | Come on , now — ’ He had no need to say more because Cameron had risen to his feet in the greying light and a song was coming from him in a steady flow of sound and a hard gravelly voice that resonated like a pipe . |
| 6 | Even the heavily fortified town of Berwick-upon-Tweed , on the Scottish bank of the river , was wrested from them by the English over and over again , and finally lost . |
| 7 | It was snatched from her by a woman without heart or conscience , a woman driven by greed . |
| 8 | The Canadian dissenters also said that information was withheld from them during the investigation . |
| 9 | As McKerrow put it : " much of what we strive to find out was not and could not be known to those of the period which we study , for it was veiled from them by the life of everyday . " |
| 10 | When the Incas controlled this area , I was told by The Rough Guide to Peru ( my chattier , more colourful back-up to the ‘ bible ’ ) , ‘ they considered the Uros so poor — almost sub-human — that only a section of hollow cane filled with lice was required from them as a monthly tribute . ’ |
| 11 | This passage haunted Eliot who was to quote from it in the original title of Poems , 1920 , as well as in Ash-Wednesday . |