Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] from [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arrested and interned by the Germans , Adair was eventually moved from Bayonne to Fresne . |
| 2 | Panic was effectively removed from office on Dec. 29 , when both houses of the federal parliament passed a vote of no confidence tabled by the Radical Party . |
| 3 | His first , 11 weeks after the crash took place on December 20 when he was gently transferred from hospital by ambulance , strapped to a stretcher . |
| 4 | Griffin O'Neal , 27 , was only saved from jail after 24-year-old Lynn Oddo , the woman he beat up , pleaded with the court for mercy . |
| 5 | On the contrary , it was recognized that the system was divinely appointed from beginning to end . |
| 6 | Under this system of economic production , even though a merchant class was able to find a niche for itself by providing loans and commodities for kings , princes and noble landowners , this class was largely excluded from control over the state , which was dominated by increasingly absolutist kings and their royal entourage of lords and nobles . |
| 7 | They had a point , I was forced to admit , since I was already suffering from frostbite in the toes . |
| 8 | Nicos Sampson , leader of the short-lived right-wing regime of 1974 , was conditionally released from imprisonment in Cyprus on April 28 ; he had been due for release in March 1994 [ see also p. 38450 ] . |
| 9 | Orlando Azcué Rodríguez ( AI Prisoners Letter Writing Campaign June/July 1991 ) was conditionally released from prison in Cuba on 19 July 1991 after serving only 16 months of his three-year sentence for ‘ enemy propaganda . ’ |
| 10 | Well the difference was like moving from purgatory into heaven really , because er in the Nissan hut I had one tap of cold water , that 's all , every bit of water had to be heated on a gas stove , and every bit of water for a bath had to be heated in an old fashioned er boiler in which you lit the fire under and of course when you came here we had a ni an electric cooker , er straight away |
| 11 | He said clarification was still needed from Government on the UK regulations covering trading and transfer of quota . |
| 12 | My father was still forced from time to time to act as an interpreter , but from now on he spent much more time at home , rather than meeting his friends in the cafés for a game of cards . |
| 13 | Although the old post above Dili was still used from time to time , this port was no longer important as transports off-loaded Japanese air force and other supplies at Bancau stretching the areas to be watched by several hundred square miles . |
| 14 | This landlord was clearly profiting from involvement in the market in basic foodstuffs : a market which stray references in contemporary chronicles and letters show to have been lively in the Seine basin during the ninth century . |
| 15 | The life of this normally gentle giant of a man was also punctuated from time to time by acts of sudden , often inexplicable , violence , usually associated with an over-generous intake of alcohol . |
| 16 | Former Deputy Prime Minister Gen. Arthit Kamlang-Ek was also released from detention on March 9 and he too left Thailand for a " holiday " , on March 16 . |
| 17 | The mill was originally converted from fulling to corn and then to silk in 1747 . |
| 18 | Otto 's house was now concealed from view behind groves of sombre cypresses . |
| 19 | He was indeed suffering from foul of the foot , the mediaeval term given because of the stink of the necrotic tissue between the cleats , and I did n't have any antibiotics or sulphonamides to treat it . |
| 20 | Soon after his call , they met for a meal at Shoney 's Big Boy restaurant where Franks/Schafer introduced him to Burchette , who was then working from home as a one-man security service , and to Jack Terrell , a former operative of Oliver North 's in Central America . |
| 21 | By now I was virtually paralysed from head to toe . |
| 22 | The combined effect of these concessions was virtually to remove from threat of rate-capping all but about 20 ( 4.4 per cent ) of the 456 principal local authorities then existing in England and Wales . |
| 23 | And so when Lacuna was screaming instructions to the androids , and the Doctor was almost hopping from foot to foot with anxiety , and the pale young man and the little girl were staring open-mouthed at the screens , Britta omitted to speak . |
| 24 | drip , so he gingerly raised his stiff right arm , which was heavily strapped from shoulder to wrist , and began to explore the extent of his body and head injuries as best he could . |
| 25 | His wrists up to his elbows were closely covered with coral bangles , so were his ankles … his breast was completely hidden from view by the coral beads encircling his neck . |