Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [verb] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was moved from home to home . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | So as soon as I was released from prison I done more crimes . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I was truanting from school when I was about nine , and to be truthful my mother said I was totally out of hand . |
| 9 | HAVING had the misfortune to break my ankle , I was discharged from hospital after a three-week stay . |
| 10 | I had to go to the doctor in the end and he told me I was suffering from malnutrition . |
| 11 | It would be the way of our century to say that I was suffering from time-shock , no doubt ; since our personality is largely built and buttressed by our environment , and the assumptions environment and society force upon us , one has but to tip away that buttress and at once the personality is threatened with dissolution . |
| 12 | I was suffering from shock at losing Snowy . |
| 13 | I was suffering from diphtheria , most of the adult staff were women , and nobody was explaining what was happening to me . |
| 14 | I assumed I was suffering from dandruff but it has n't cleared up . |
| 15 | The truth is that I was suffering from insomnia : a full stomach is more conducive to sleep than is an empty one . |
| 16 | ‘ I ca n't say I care for the idea of you two discussing me behind my back , but if you must know I was suffering from reaction , ’ said Leonora with dignity . |
| 17 | He walked me to the door with the kids in tow and said that we could all have a look inside , the kids as well , but even though I was shaking from head to toe , I said eventually , after we walked past the place at least four times , if I was going to do this I might as well do it on my own . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Within moments of setting off , she was lost from view , swallowed up in the white mist . |
| 20 | She was grinning from ear to ear , her eyes sparkling in excited anticipation , like a child watching magicians at a carnival . |
| 21 | Maxim looked back expressionless knowing she was babbling from nervousness knowing his own stolid attitude was nervousness too . |
| 22 | HEN Jo was born a friend said she was sent from heaven . |
| 23 | She was waving to us , her face very serious ; we turned into the road and she was gone from view . |
| 24 | When she finally left him to go upstairs her heart was overflowing , and she was beaming from ear to ear . |
| 25 | By the time they finally arrived in the deserted car park behind the arcade she was trembling from head to foot , racked by every emotion from fear to rage . |
| 26 | She was trembling from head to foot . |
| 27 | She was painted from head to foot in red . |
| 28 | She met him emerging from their tall block of apartments as she was returning from work on the Friday evening , having stopped to buy groceries on the way home , her mind flying ahead to Luke 's arrival and all that she planned to say to him now that she had made up her mind to end their affair . |
| 29 | Only her head was free to move by now and this she was tossing from side to side , her eyes rolling in panic , while her fear was further expressed in snorts and whimpers . |
| 30 | She was released from hospital yesterday after having her stomach pumped . |