Example sentences of "[vb pp] from their [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 | The couple were chauffeured from their homes to the town hall where they put on the replica mayoral chains made specially for the occasion . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A day later the Renault workers were evicted from their plant at Flins , as 2,000 riot police , the CRS , held back solidarity demonstrations . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There was a deep plastic salad tray and the milk and orange juice had been tipped from their cartons into it . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Today , Amstrad shares have dropped from their peak of £2.34 to just 28p — less than half what its assets are valued at . |
| 10 | At Bedeford , north Devon , people were evacuated from their homes as a dam holding back flood water overflowed . |
| 11 | Several families were evacuated from their homes in Ulster last night after a bomb alert . |
| 12 | More than 600 people were evacuated from their homes in Norfolk and eight bungalows collapsed after the sea washed away their foundations . |
| 13 | Still only insolvent ‘ traders ’ could be discharged from their liabilities by bankruptcy . |
| 14 | The factor structure was also similar , though , as might be expected from their exposure to different schemes ( mandatory and voluntary ) , not exactly so . |
| 15 | This is the season of weddings : fortunately for hatters , florists and vicars , and for the enjoyment and happiness of us all , they have been rescued from their decade of unpopularity . |
| 16 | Villages are crippled by people who ca n't bear to have the veil torn from their fantasy of idyllic retirement . ’ |
| 17 | Other objections to traditional behaviourism can be transferred from their use with other related conceptions , to which we now turn . |
| 18 | Experiments in which young salmon have been transferred from their stream of birth , to be released in another stream , have been used as evidence that salmon imprint on the smell of their river during a sensitive period just before they migrate downstream . |
| 19 | Ice shot from their feet like sparks , scattering behind them . |
| 20 | If you like , the whole sequence could be shot from their point of view . |
| 21 | ‘ And there I was waiting for you , in such a state ever since Kukrit came back late from the airport and said he 'd missed you , ’ Jeremy replies , suggesting with automatic but irrelevant chivalry that they are lovers separated from their tryst with one another . |
| 22 | They were all separated from their home in London , as babies . |
| 23 | In the worst cases they have even lost the right to grow up in loving and secure homes , seeking to earn their living on the street or separated from their families by war and civil conflict . |
| 24 | A total of 43 of the victims had been separated from their families in childhood by state authorities , all but two had left school before completing their secondary education , and 43 had been charged with a criminal offence by the age of 15 . |
| 25 | He and his step-brother Philip Giles got separated from their parents on a ski-lift they were taking up the mountain side . |
| 26 | He showed that many young children separated from their mothers for admissions to hospital or a residential nursery experienced an acute stress reaction followed by disturbing behaviour lasting many months . |
| 27 | As producers they are separated from their means of production ; the law treats them as possessors of free will and responsibility , and the impression is strengthened by the dominant ideology . |
| 28 | The chips have to be separated from their sockets without bending any of the pins and once removed they must be stored in an anti-static environment . |
| 29 | They concerned the key issue of whether passengers should be separated from their cars on trains using the tunnel . |
| 30 | At most sites , strip buildings appear to have been constructed as independent entities , separated from their neighbours by either alleys or narrow lanes . |