Example sentences of "[vb pp] from [pos pn] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chalets on the lower ground nearest the beach were liable to flood and more than once young children had to be lifted from their beds in the middle of the night . |
| 2 | He was taller than any human being she had ever seen , and his hair , a pale gold streaked with silver , seemed to be lifted from his brow in a wind she could n't feel . |
| 3 | In March 1977 , at the age of sixteen , she had come from her village in a remote part of Pakistan to marry a cousin who had settled in Britain for many years . |
| 4 | Some further evidence has come from our use of sentence completion tests with secondary-school pupils as part of our research programme at Chelsea . |
| 5 | Much of Muskie 's political fame was earned from his leadership in environmental affairs , which was now being eroded not only by Nixon 's proposals but also by a Ralph Nader report on air pollution which strongly criticized Muskie 's role in the past and just stopped short of accusing him of selling out to industrial polluters ( Lundqvist , 1980 ) . |
| 6 | The couple were chauffeured from their homes to the town hall where they put on the replica mayoral chains made specially for the occasion . |
| 7 | Peter Harris , who has cancer , and his family were due to be evicted from their home in Sandford on Thames unless they could pay eight thousand pounds in arrears . |
| 8 | Shortly after his appointment as Minister of Housing in October 1964 , he telephoned me on a Sunday morning to say that he was having great trouble with his civil servants because he wished to promote an anti-eviction Bill , which would make it impossible for people to be evicted from their premises without special precautions . |
| 9 | A day later the Renault workers were evicted from their plant at Flins , as 2,000 riot police , the CRS , held back solidarity demonstrations . |
| 10 | However , the most infamous of all confrontations occurred in 1914 , the year of the ‘ Ludlow Massacre ’ , when thirty-five militia opened fire on a tent colony of 8,000–10,000 members of mining families recently evicted from their homes during a union-recognition strike . |
| 11 | But the Judge said he was satisfied Brady was unlawfully evicted from his bedsit on Oatlands Road , but he added he was also satisfied that had the landlord gone to court to get him out he would have been successful . |
| 12 | That same year , one of Ellis 's relatives was evicted from his holding by the local landlord for voting Liberal in the general election . |
| 13 | There was a deep plastic salad tray and the milk and orange juice had been tipped from their cartons into it . |
| 14 | Clarinets are , however , omitted from its scoring in favour of a pair of oboes . |
| 15 | All I 'm pointing out is that those steps are a hazard , and one which any sane architect would have omitted from his plan from the start . ’ |
| 16 | Julio César Turbay Ayala , the president of the Liberal Party ( Partido Liberal — PL ) and President of the Republic in 1978-82 , and Misael Pastrana Borrero , the president of the opposition Social Conservative Party ( Partido Social Conservador — PSC ) , resigned from their posts on Dec. 14 , 1989 , in protest at the indiscipline shown by both parliamentary groups in pressing for referendums on both political reform and on the government 's policy of extraditing drug traffickers to stand trial in the United States . |
| 17 | The Northern Ireland Minister , Michael Mates , has resigned from his post over the Asil Nadir affair . |
| 18 | The First Vice-President of Panama , Ricardo Arias Calderón , resigned from his post on Dec. 17 , declaring at a press conference that the government of President Guillermo Endara Galimany was incapable of dealing with the corruption , unemployment or poverty in Panama . |
| 19 | Alan Beatson has now resigned from his post as headmaster of Selwyn Girls School in Gloucester . |
| 20 | Today , Amstrad shares have dropped from their peak of £2.34 to just 28p — less than half what its assets are valued at . |
| 21 | Order dropped from my memory as a sticky substance melted in the sun might drop from a table and spread on the floor . |
| 22 | At Bedeford , north Devon , people were evacuated from their homes as a dam holding back flood water overflowed . |
| 23 | Several families were evacuated from their homes in Ulster last night after a bomb alert . |
| 24 | More than 600 people were evacuated from their homes in Norfolk and eight bungalows collapsed after the sea washed away their foundations . |
| 25 | Still only insolvent ‘ traders ’ could be discharged from their liabilities by bankruptcy . |
| 26 | The difference is that with the first type , the innocent party , though entitled to damages , must still perform his part of the bargain , whereas with a repudiatory breach he may , in addition to claiming damages , regard himself as discharged from his obligations under the contract . |
| 27 | John Piper was , at the time , a constable , but was to be discharged from his duties at the following session . |
| 28 | ICI 's chairmen have traditionally been picked from its cadre of executive directors ( now nine ) . |
| 29 | The factor structure was also similar , though , as might be expected from their exposure to different schemes ( mandatory and voluntary ) , not exactly so . |
| 30 | Mr. Adey had intended to call on the directors to explain his ideas , but he had been ‘ confined by a complaint in his legs and was still obliged to be carried from his sofa to a carriage ’ . |