Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SIX OF the long-term political prisoners whose release the government announced this week , including Walter Sisulu , the former ANC secretary , were flown up from Cape Town to Johannesburg under guard yesterday morning and transferred to Diepkloof prison in Soweto , according to the South African Press Association . |
| 2 | Urgent medical supplies were flown out from Lyneham yesterday , but for many victims the only hope of a full recovery requires the full faclities which only countries like Britain can provide . |
| 3 | Dairyman Crick 's sleeves were rolled up from Monday to Saturday , and the milkers milked in the fields for coolness . |
| 4 | The ordeal ended when they were picked up from Great Barrier Island , 123 days after they had set out from New Zealand . |
| 5 | There was confusion , however , over the position of the two central banks , Gosbank and Vneshekonombank ( Bank for foreign economic relations ) , whose responsibilities were transferred back from RSFSR to central control on Aug. 29 , and whose chairmen , respectively Viktor Gerashchenko and Yuri Moskovsky were reinstated , according to the Financial Times of Aug. 30 , partly as a result of pressure from European banks . |
| 6 | Pakistani irregulars invaded Kashmir — then an independent kingdom ruled by a Hindu king — in October 1948 after which its ruler acceded to India and troops were moved in from New Delhi to check the invasion . |
| 7 | All the outfits on the catwalk were made up from clothes donated to its charity shops . |
| 8 | However during the 1909 Air Display at Squires Gate and again for the steeplechase meetings at the racecourse there , Corporation trams were operated through from Talbot Square , at a fare of 4d . |
| 9 | They were closed down from time to time and checked the day prior to our morning operation . |
| 10 | Moreover , the system of land tenure , wherein the land belongs to the indigenous Fijians and can only be leased to Indo-Fijians ( the descendants of indentured cane workers who were drafted in from India in the early colonial period ) militates against conservation measures because it ensures the political dominance of the former ; and the encouragement of production ensures that such land is seen to be in use , an artefact to maintain internal stability . |
| 11 | A child , named Lewis after his father , was born to Goram and his wife 18 months ago , and added another stabilising dimension to the life of a player now consumed by the need to make the most of the gifts that were handed down from father to son . |
| 12 | It was in fact , a closed shop , and those working practices and skills were handed down from mother to daughter . |
| 13 | Henry continued , ‘ The riots here followed those in neighbouring counties , of which our people had heard rumours , as if those rioters had been able to overpower the gentry and as if large masses of men were moving on from London , to aid them in forcing their masters to give higher wages . |
| 14 | The next day Professor Pearn , who was working in intelligence , came in to warn me that the Japs were breaking through from Taung-gyi and that it was only a matter of hours before they would reach Maymyo . |
| 15 | By the nineteen fifties Kirkwall had a new power station at the P D C and already the distribution lines were radiating out from Kirkwall to bring mains electricity to the outlying areas of the mainland . |
| 16 | They were riding back from Castlegregory , and had stopped at the top of the Connor Pass to rest their horses . |
| 17 | ‘ According to the radio-car you were coming in from Hollywood direction . ’ |
| 18 | If he had n't been put into the jail , I do n't know what would have been the result today but … before he even had his jail sentence served , applications were coming in from town an in that short space of time about 1966 , our church more than doubled in membership and in churches . |
| 19 | I know , when we were coming back from Lorna 's I mean there there was like in patches . |
| 20 | The pupils were coming back from lunch for their afternoon sessions . |
| 21 | Oh no quite probably matinee and then the early evening which I thought those people were coming out from look and erm , and this one , good grief fancy doing that be here half a day , you 'd think you 'd earn the damn money would n't you ? |
| 22 | People were coming out from Palm Sunday Mass at the church of Ognissanti , pausing to chat to families going in to the last service and then passing under his window carrying sprays of olive leaves . |
| 23 | A flax processing mill was built in the 19th century and some workers were brought over from Ireland . |
| 24 | We crossed the fields below Underwood and made our way back home as cows were brought in to milk and children were brought in from play for their tea . |
| 25 | After 1760 bulls were brought in from England , the Netherlands and southern Scotland to improve them and some farmers began to specialise in certain colours or coat patterns . |
| 26 | The economy was strengthened and German miners were brought in from Transylvania to develop the copper , tin , gold , silver and lead mines of the interior . |
| 27 | ‘ Would you do it this way if you were starting off from scratch ? ’ was the question posed by ACOST chairman Sir Robin Nicholson . |
| 28 | With armfuls of gifts and souvenirs , the 25 youngsters and seven teachers were waved off from Parkeston Quay by their hosts — children , parents and teachers from Harwich School . |
| 29 | As proof of his point , Aston Martin 's chairman points out that one of his 155mph product 's soundest markets was Hong Kong , an island so small , says Gauntlett , that the only things moving at more that half that speed ‘ were taking off from Kai Tak airport ’ . |
| 30 | The Row was a highly-traditional society where the skills of the trade were passed on from generation to generation . |