Example sentences of "was [vb pp] from [noun] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In April 1945 , while the division was stationed near Graz under the command of the SS Gen Freytag , it was joined from Berlin by Gen Pavel Shandruk , President of the German-sponsored Ukrainian National Committee and Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian National Army ( of which the 1st Ukrainian Division was the most important component ) . |
| 2 | Allott , also 35 , was recalled from holiday in Wales to discover his fate , but it could hardly have been a surprise as he has not regularly figured in Lancashire 's games this season . |
| 3 | The founding of the White Lions dates back to the time of the bitter civil war with the Dark Elves when Caledor the First was recalled from hunting in Chrace to become the new Phoenix King . |
| 4 | A wealthy man , without flying experience , was flown from London to Paris by his pilot . |
| 5 | He was flown from Edinburgh to Manchester airport before being taken for a tearful re-union with his mother 's parents . |
| 6 | Well I , well er I came back to Britain er I , I was er liberated by General Patton in a , a small place called Erfurt I was flown from Erfurt into Cherbourg , and from Cherbourg into a small place called Amersham which was a reception station for prisoners of war , where we were treated er on entering the camp we were handed a telegram . |
| 7 | Valerio Viccei , 37 , who is thought to have got away with £26 million from the daring robbery , was flown from Heathrow to Rome where he faces questioning over 50 unsolved crimes . |
| 8 | The new Health Secretary is married to fellow MP Peter Bottomley , who was sacked from office by Mrs Thatcher . |
| 9 | After a 10-month battle , self-proclaimed white supremacist Byron de la Beckwith , 70 , was extradited from Tennessee on Oct. 4 to face a third trial in Mississippi for the killing in 1963 of Medgar Evers , at the time the state 's leading black activist [ see p. 19771 ] . |
| 10 | On May 26 Zeyal Sarhadi was extradited from Switzerland to France , following a ruling by Switzerland 's Federal Tribunal . |
| 11 | The most recent launch , the first flight of the second orbiter , Challenger , was delayed from January to April because of persistent fuel and coolant leaks from the main engines . |
| 12 | There would also be problems with the EC if more authority was devolved from Westminster to Brussels . |
| 13 | YOUR correspondent ‘ Puzzled ’ ( Writeback , August 19 ) complains that an elderly lady of her acquaintance was discharged from hospital on Friday , August 13 , by ‘ taxi ’ , shared with three other disabled senior citizens . |
| 14 | Hazard was transferred from Tottenham to Chelsea on September 19 , 1985 and from there to Portsmouth on January 11 , 1990 . |
| 15 | In March 1938 , the former L.C.C 's blue painted car No. 1 , was transferred from Holloway to Telford Avenue depôt and painted red . |
| 16 | He was not only a fine footballer , he was also a gentleman to the Nth degree , and he told the story , I remember , he started his erm , professional football career in this country , with Barnsley , and he was transferred from Barnsley to Aston Villa , and at the time there was some haggling over the fee , and er , he was taken by the chairman of Barnsley , to meet the chairman of Aston Villa in the chairman 's Rolls Royce . |
| 17 | However , 5 April 1990 was noteworthy enough : an earthquake of magnitude 5.1 , one of the largest in Britain this century , near Bishop 's Castle in Shropshire was felt from Ayrshire to Cornwall and Kent to Dublin . |
| 18 | Shaking was felt from Ayrshire to Cornwall and Kent to Dublin , but damage was limited mainly to roof slates and chimney stacks . |
| 19 | Sun Life Assurance employs 2500 employees and in 1976 the head office was relocated from London to Bristol . |
| 20 | In April 1327 Edward was moved from Renilworth to Berkeley Castle . |
| 21 | In the autumn of 1982 John was transferred from Coningsby to become Commanding Officer at Wildenrath in West Germany , and so the Corsair was moved from Coningsby to Duxford , becoming one of the first privately-owned warbirds to be based there . |
| 22 | At one time a footway was made from Skinnergate to North Bondgate to save people 's shoes . |
| 23 | , writes : MANY years ago I was told that Colgate toothpaste was made from pebbles from Chesil Beach , Dorset . |
| 24 | as if to seal off the barbarians and leave them to their own devices , Hadrian 's Wall was built from Solway to Tyne between AD 122 and 127 . |
| 25 | According to Mr Prescott it indicates that ‘ urgent advice ’ was sought from Eurotunnel by Robert Bailey , secretary of Safety Authority , a panel of independent experts , on questions of safety raised by the MP . |
| 26 | ( b ) In the course of the Norbec hirings , one particularly low VLCC voyage rate was agreed from Yanbu' to Brazil at W23.5 . |
| 27 | He was narrowly returned as Prime Minister after the 1987 general election , but was ejected from office in July 1988 after being defeated in a motion of no confidence by Namaliu 's supporters . |
| 28 | Shortly after this , in April 1858 , the Vale of Towy Railway was opened from Llandeilo to Llandovery , thus making the through route from Craven Arms to Llanelli complete when the extension opened in 1868 . |
| 29 | The setting of the original novel by Mervyn Jones was shifted from London to New York because , says Yates , ‘ I did n't want any of this dreadful , clichéd Swinging London business creeping in . |
| 30 | Whilst Williams and his coterie were planning their strategy , there were also some political developments of note in Jamaica , where in January the Jamaican Labour Party was ousted from power by Norman Manley 's People 's National Party , a success firmly rooted in mass popular support for a charismatic leader . |