Example sentences of "was [vb pp] from [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This reasoning alone casts doubt on the idea that the Earth 's own moon was formed from its orbiting dust grains . |
| 2 | But she was diverted from her own reaction by Arthur . |
| 3 | He was sacked from his final job , at Motorbility , suppliers of Reliant Robins , for ‘ encouraging a session of dirty joke telling on a wet afternoon ’ . |
| 4 | He was sacked from his ministerial post in June for criticizing what he saw as Franco 's lack of commitment to the Axis cause . |
| 5 | She seized the handle , but the impetus was too great , and it was wrenched from her convulsive grasp . |
| 6 | For the time being she was excused from her prop-room duties and she need n't wait for the curtain call . |
| 7 | It was expected from her young people , by which she really meant her customers . |
| 8 | This was done from her own home and there were something like fifty thousand sparklers in that house with young children running around . |
| 9 | Her misery was made complete because she was separated from her two sons who were flying first class . |
| 10 | Ms Williams , who is a captain in the US Army Reserve and was separated from her own family during the conflict , asked 45 mothers and 61 children to describe what impact the hostilities had on them . |
| 11 | From one class of variation it was concluded that ‘ each brooch was made from its individual model ’ ( ibid. , p. 30 ) . |
| 12 | Elean : So the story Devil at a Dead End , which deals with some of the experiences of a young Black South African girl crossing the border from Lesotho , was drawn from your own experiences ? |
| 13 | Marjory had been killed in a fall from a horse two years earlier ; but a boy child , Robert , was born from her dead body . |
| 14 | The aversion argument was extracted from its literary context and elevated into a full-blown defence of crudity in the Oz case : " One of the arguments was that many of the illustrations in Oz were so grossly lewd and unpleasant that they would shock in the first instance and then would tend to repel . |
| 15 | On 6 September 1746 two new French privateers , L'Heureux and Le Prince de Conti , reached Loch nam Uamh and on 19 September the prince was summoned from his impromptu shelter on the slopes of Ben Alder in Inverness-shire , a mere 25 miles [ 40 km ] from Fort William . |
| 16 | The layout and design of the domus was derived from its Hellenistic prototype as built on Delos and at Priene ( page 82 ) , . |
| 17 | Most of his education was derived from his eldest brother , Dr John Green , who was master of a school at Denmark Street , Soho , London , where Charles later became an assistant teacher . |
| 18 | Thus Haemig has argued that between 1486 and 1502 , the great-tailed grackle ( Quiscalus mexicanus ) was introduced from its original home in Veracruz to the Valley of Mexico by the Aztec Emperor , Auitzotl . |
| 19 | Richard was expelled from his first school in Cheltenham because his behaviour was too disruptive . |
| 20 | Criticised by some of his superiors as a communist , Aristide was expelled from his Salesian order in 1988 for failing to comply with an order transferring him to Canada . |
| 21 | BANKS may be money grabbers but they are still the safest places to leave your money , as the mother and son found when £29,000 was stolen from their parked car . |
| 22 | However , disaster struck at the German Circuit and Lauda was pulled from his blazing car with multiple burns . |
| 23 | Charleton was involved from its early days with the subject of the next chapter , The Royal Society of London for the Improving of Natural Knowledge . |
| 24 | From that position he could satisfy himself that the pig-swill truck was gone from its usual spot in the rear driveway . |
| 25 | A large section of flesh was cut from her hind quarters . |
| 26 | After some time she was removed from her mounting pedestal , stripped down to bare metal and repainted in an accurate B-model colour scheme . |
| 27 | ‘ For it seems that she was removed from her own altar without human agency — or at least you have found none . |
| 28 | My father was taken from his clerking job at Flatford Mill to go to London and look after his brother , a local merchant with interests in the City providing him with a post . |
| 29 | The material was taken from his personal archive , and consisted of a cine film of the Cambrian Lines and slides of railway scenes around Shrewsbury . |
| 30 | Should it be exhibiting a work which , in all probability , was obtained from its legal owner by fraudulent means ? |