Example sentences of "[vb pp] from [pos pn] [noun sg] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | That same year , one of Ellis 's relatives was evicted from his holding by the local landlord for voting Liberal in the general election . |
| 2 | A pregnant woman had to be rescued from her car by ambulance crews on the A48 in Gloucestershire . |
| 3 | Then followed a story about the ineptitude of a young policeman in handling a domestic dispute , who was only rescued from his incompetence by a wise reserve man . |
| 4 | Rescued from his plane by French firstline troops , he was found by Chapman in a squalid French hospital , burning with fever and suffering from an appalling thirst . |
| 5 | Dana made her intentions very clear and she was n't to be turned from her objective by the sight of Roman kissing Claudia . |
| 6 | ‘ The quarry roads ran from south to north and formed a peculiar pattern , each having tributary tracks since each farm was separated from its neighbour by a continuous stone wall without gaps . |
| 7 | In this image the state in liberal democracies is separated from its society by only a thin membrane of formal legality . |
| 8 | One can then say that the mean velocity gradient depends only on u τ and y , although one can not say the same for U because it is separated from its origin by a region in which v is important . |
| 9 | A BRITISH passenger told last night of the moment he was separated from his wife by a wall of flames as their holiday jet crash-landed . |
| 10 | Combined with my relief that a resting-place had finally been found was satisfaction that I 'd had him with me for those first few hours and that he had not been whisked from his bed by complete strangers and reappeared , repackaged , at the crematorium a week later . |
| 11 | Thus the 32 over-life-sized bronze head of Augustus found at Meroë ( Sudan ) was detached from its body by Meroitic tribesmen raiding Roman camps in upper Egypt , carried to the site of a temple of victory , and deliberately buried beneath the steps leading into the temple . |
| 12 | Frodo is saved from his sin by his own earlier repeated acts of forgiveness to Gollum , but in a sense punished by the loss of his finger . |
| 13 | General Francis had risen from his chair by the examination couch and was supporting himself with his sticks . |
| 14 | Halling : " In this Parish , and distant about a mile from the Church and street which are on the western banks of the Medway is Upper Hailing , a small hamlet so denominated from its situation by the side of a narrow stony road , which runs beneath the range of hills and leads from Whornes Place , in Cuxtone , towards Paddlesworth , Birling , etc. , it now consists only of two tenements one of which was a Chapel , and the other opposite is an Ale house . |
| 15 | If you are unlucky enough to lose your AutoCheque Card or have it stolen , any Switch withdrawals made from your account by forging your signature will be refunded — even if they occur before you advise us of the loss . |
| 16 | He was drawn from his reverie by the faint chugging of an engine . |
| 17 | The woman at the change counter was awoken from her daydream by a sickening crunch . |
| 18 | But I was awoken from my daydreaming by her calling me over to the large chest which stood beneath the window . |
| 19 | For instance , the confirmation of the conjecture that samples of iron extracted from its ore by some new process will , like other iron , expand when heated , would be of little consequence . |
| 20 | He glanced round again , but the Thing , the Beast , the Monster , or whatever it was , was hidden from his sight by the smoke it shot out as it galloped forward . |
| 21 | The fear was banished from his heart by pity for his fellow-countrymen and anger at what was being done to the little village of Granard that he had thought would be a haven of peace . |
| 22 | She was shaken from her reverie by a sharp , peremptory rap on the door . |
| 23 | Wexford , who was hardly ever shaken from his equilibrium by the devious excesses of criminals , was perpetually astonished by his own daughter . |
| 24 | The controversial Brazilian Environment Minister , José Lutzemberger , was dismissed from his post by President Fernando Collor de Mello on March 22 . |
| 25 | The indigenous people who live in the forests all around the world have been murdered , terrorised and driven from their land by greedy developers . |
| 26 | In 1940 Scotland was ‘ invaded ’ by thousands of Polish soldiers , driven from their homeland by the German army . |
| 27 | ( N.S. ) 709 the applicant had been expelled from his fellowship by the provost and fellows of King 's College , Cambridge . |
| 28 | It had been woken from its sleep by the central heating and in a state of despair and paranoia dive-bombed the double glazing in a vain effort to escape . |
| 29 | Owen Ruddy , who lives near the scene of the crime , described how he was woken from his sleep by the noise . |
| 30 | The spell was broken , the pool was rippled from its serenity by the way he snapped instructions to her and then ran to the Administration block . |