Example sentences of "[vb pp] from [pos pn] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was transferred from Mostar Belgrade , dumped in a childrens ' home separated from her family for four months , then shelled while escaping to safety in Croatia . |
| 2 | She was transferred from Mostar Belgrade , dumped in a childrens ' home separated from her family for four months , then shelled while escaping to safety in Croatia . |
| 3 | Shankly , in case you had n't guessed , is Mowbray 's labrador dog who has been separated from his master for six months last season . |
| 4 | ‘ Not only have I been separated from my wife for the past five years — but in all that time I 've only once managed to make love to her . |
| 5 | On a clean parchment headed by the British crest were the deeds to his home in Jaffa , bought from his father for 3,493 Palestinian pounds and dated 27 October 1947 . |
| 6 | Just before the onset of her fatal illness , Lizzie recorded a superb rendering of the North-east witch ballad Alison Gross , got from her father for the Grampian Television film Journey to a Kingdom . |
| 7 | The men 's feelings were not so well defined and they were not to be diverted from their search for tea . |
| 8 | It ai n't gon na tell us they 're only gon na sa , someone gon na lose this because a bloke got sacked from his job for having a Betty Boop tattoo . |
| 9 | At the age of seven he had been put on a ship to Britain , kissed by his mother and sisters , shaken hands with by his Pop , and banished from their sight for the next eleven years , save two brief holidays . |
| 10 | It seemed unfair that Mary , Patrick and Rosie had all been reconciled , and that Moira alone was excluded — banished from their affection for ever . |
| 11 | Although , as we have seen , in 1828 Veitch was dismissed from his consulship for having addressed Napoleon as ‘ Your Majesty ’ instead of plain ‘ General ’ when he met the vanquished Emperor en route for St Helena , he had become such a popular figure in Madeira that , after representations from the island , he was reinstated by Lord Palmerston in 1831 . |
| 12 | ‘ I have n't heard from my son for a couple of weeks . ’ |
| 13 | Partly it resulted from a preference in his subject-matter for concrete cultural and social detail over Adorno 's tendency towards abstraction of social process : for instance , he offered something like a phenomenology of the ‘ shocks ’ inherent in modern city life ; he discussed actual and potential production practices within modern media , derived from his enthusiasm for Brecht 's ‘ epic theatre ’ ; he focused less on the totalities of aesthetic form than on the fluidities of technique , the conditions of production , and the variable nature of reception . |
| 14 | In 1977 a full-time salaried judge in Scotland was removed from his office for misbehaviour because he was deemed to have-engaged in public political activity . |
| 15 | Consul Veitch was later removed from his post for addressing Napoleon as ‘ Your Majesty ’ instead of ‘ General ’ , as he had been instructed by London . |
| 16 | Payment was never made for a vessel taken from its owner for royal service ; nor was compensation for loss of a ship , or even damage to its equipment , normally given . |
| 17 | But Winnie has a secret , too , one she has kept from her daughter for all these years . |
| 18 | Squatting down on the floor like a peasant , Gaveston began the dark satanic ritual learnt from his mother for the total destruction of his enemies . |