Example sentences of "[vb past] been [vb pp] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been moved from the uninspiring cupboard allocated to her by Stephanie on her arrival . |
| 2 | I heard a scuffle outside and presumed he 'd been escorted from the building , but before leaving he pushed a News of the World Christmas card under the door offering me £40,000 for an interview . |
| 3 | When I heard reports of the changing physical shape of German women , that they were becoming a different breed of women we 'd been told from the old , rather heavy , erm motherly plain sort of woman who characterised Germany womanhood before the Second World War , well now we read that their shape and their weight and so on corresponds much more to French or British and American norms . |
| 4 | He 'll definitely be playing for the French next week and they would n't even confirm that he 'd been banned from the scum 's next 4 matches in Europe ( which ones did they have in mind ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ) . |
| 5 | The newscaster then switched to a trivial item about a cat who 'd been rescued from the roof of the houses of Parliament , and Kathleen flicked off the set and threw her sandwich in the bin , her appetite gone . |
| 6 | ‘ It was in the paper that she 'd been taken from the harbour . |
| 7 | Suddenly she was feeling as though she 'd been dropped from a great height . |
| 8 | At least , one may take this assumption from the terms which the French emissary Paul Mus , after an arduous journey , presented to Ho in May 1947 and which required what amounted to a conditional surrender ; and in any case now that the Communist Party had been ousted from the French government there was no longer the same effective demand in France for a negotiated settlement . |
| 9 | Dinner had been cleared from the dining room , which looked self-conscious and redundant , as dining rooms do when not in use . |
| 10 | Most of the coconut palms had been cleared from the twenty-acre site , and the dense vegetation had been cut back to deepen the crescent-shaped beach where the six low-level Mediterranean accommodation blocks were to be built , each housing twenty rooms , varying in size and design but all with huge covered terraces overhanging the beach with uninterrupted sea views . |
| 11 | The rats had been cleared from the lab when the Leutnant returned with a message for Dr Karnstein . |
| 12 | The wet plaster smell and the white dust on the cobbles underfoot indicated that rubble had been cleared from the yard only a short time before . |
| 13 | Then in run number six , taken towards the end of January , the ratio hit 3.5 ; a very dramatic outburst of neutrons had been detected from the cell . |
| 14 | By the end of 1990 , £15,000 had been raised from the sale of the prints for the Appeal with more to come when the project is finished . |
| 15 | By the end of 1990 £50,000 had been raised from the sales of the book and donated to the ‘ Reach for the Sky ’ Appeal . |
| 16 | ‘ Wires had been ripped from the wall and deliberately attached to metal furniture in the barricades , ’ he said . |
| 17 | There had been a struggle , buttons had been ripped from the waistcoat , which was open , and a silver pocket watch dangled from its silver chain . |
| 18 | Broken glass and china lay everywhere , littered across the torn remains of the carpet which had been ripped from the stairs . |
| 19 | By the 14th century there was a mill in the vicinity , then called Slaughter Mill , and by the 18th century , this had been separated from the manorial estate . |
| 20 | Once both cylinder banks had been separated from the crankcase , the 12 pistons were drawn from the liners and boiled to free off the rings and gudgeon pins prior to their removal . |
| 21 | Cricket had been separated from the real world , taken away from daily life . ’ |
| 22 | There was a rough railway that had been built from the plant to an almost worked-out pit . |
| 23 | The various Lives had been written from a variety of standpoints , but he observed that the best of them had been inspired with hate — hate , not of Jesus , but of the ‘ Christ of dogma ’ . |
| 24 | Gradually , and despite the readiness with which the ranks of the baseej had been filled from the towns and villages , a sense of war-weariness was apparent in Iran ; in 1984 there were even newspaper reports of a loss of the will to fight in the ranks . |
| 25 | By this point the wealth of the local clothiers had in fact been reduced by more than half , though taxation , while extracting huge sums from the community at large , had taken little more than £1,100 , far less than had been withdrawn from the industry by the Springs . |
| 26 | ‘ It was some of the WIN files that had been withdrawn from the Registry — the dossiers cross-referenced from Mills ’ personnel file . ’ |
| 27 | The news agency Interfax reported on Sept. 18 that all KGB officers had been withdrawn from the personnel directorate of the Foreign Ministry as a step to withdrawing KGB personnel from the Foreign Ministry 's central apparatus . |
| 28 | Eight observers had been withdrawn from the western town of Dembi-Dolo , reportedly due to the threatening behaviour of OLF fighters . |
| 29 | Troops had been withdrawn from the west , but not because the likelihood of attack in that quarter had diminished . |
| 30 | She boasted that she had two bedrooms and a bathroom , which had been constructed from a third bedroom . |