Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [vb pp] from [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Often referred to as vegetable dyes , despite the fact that many of them are obtained from animal and mineral sources .
2 I am invited from time to time to sow the seeds of Medau , and last time Brown Owl allowed me to present each girl with a Medau leaflet .
3 Deep breath , hold it and so on until I 'm photographed from neck to thigh .
4 I was moved from home to home .
5 In my own case by the time I became chairman of ICI , I had not actively sold in the marketplace for nine years , although , of course , as a director of a large international company I was involved from time to time in negotiations of one sort or another .
6 My story was that I was the orphaned son of my father 's long-lost younger brother , and only staying on occasional extended holidays on the island while I was passed from relative to relative and my future was decided .
7 So as soon as I was released from prison I done more crimes .
8 I do n't think I am fully recovered , and today I am no taller or heavier than I was when I was released from hospital in 1983 .
9 I was washed from top to toe in Mrs Joe 's usual violent manner , and handed over , in my tightest Sunday clothes , to Mr Pumblechook .
10 DNase I was purchased from Sigma , dissolved in 20mM NaCl containing 1mM MgCl 2 at a concentration of 7200 units/ml and stored at -20°C .
11 HAVING had the misfortune to break my ankle , I was discharged from hospital after a three-week stay .
12 The basis of the book is that we are unfulfilled because we 've grown too sophisticated for God , we 're lonely , we 're morally confused , and I think God is the answer for this , it fashions , religion fashions the kind of community in which you 're redeemed from loneliness , it gives you the sense that when you come close to the end of your life you do n't have to panic that you have wasted your life because religion can show you that you have made a difference to the world .
13 ‘ What else can it be when you 're covered from head to toe in foul little pustules ? ’
14 You 're sent from Heaven above .
15 People also seem to get this impression that if you 're released from prison the first thing you want is sex .
16 She 's made from wax .
17 If she is withdrawn from school for two years to help produce a new language course eighty children will lose out .
18 Therefore the letter to you is written from sky to sky .
19 She was transferred from home to a private rehabilitation centre , but she was not happy there because she had little privacy , and her family could not travel to see her every day .
20 Within moments of setting off , she was lost from view , swallowed up in the white mist .
21 HEN Jo was born a friend said she was sent from heaven .
22 She was waving to us , her face very serious ; we turned into the road and she was gone from view .
23 She was painted from head to foot in red .
24 She was released from hospital yesterday after having her stomach pumped .
25 She was expelled from school for being a ‘ bad influence ’ , joined a heavy metal band and at one stage worked as a Bunny Girl for her father 's biggest rival , Playboy chief Hugh Heffner .
26 She was expelled from school , ’ said my mother .
27 She was swathed from neck to knee in what appeared to be a ‘ coat ’ of many colours .
28 She was passed from hand to hand .
29 Standing there with the violin tucked under her chin and the bow in her hand , she was removed from anxiety and from thinking of Catherine .
30 Rose was unable to do much when she was discharged from hospital after four months , but she assumed she would recover all of a sudden , because her illness had come on so suddenly .
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