Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] to [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some months later a colleague and I were returning to London from a meeting in Brussels . |
| 2 | Haddington Sheriff Court heard that the left-hand drive Land Rover driven by Timothy Taylor collided with a ten-ton lorry on the Edinburgh-Newcastle road near Spott , East Lothian , while their 18-man team were returning to Germany from training in the Highlands with the Royal Marines . |
| 3 | In the meantime , maintenance equipment and personnel were relocated to Renfrew from Abbotsinch and began preparing the Spitfires for transfer to the docks . |
| 4 | Les , with the active support of his wife Pam , has spent several years listing the 1,000 prisoners , 600 of them RAF and himself among them , who were drafted to Ambon from Java in April 1943 . |
| 5 | Large quantities were brought to Kent from the early sixth century onwards , with the jewellery contained in mound 1 at Sutton Hoo creating a notable seventh-century peak . |
| 6 | It was from the first century B.C. onwards that the vast white marble quarries at Carrara were developed and that quantities of Greek marble were shipped to Italy from Hymettus and Pentelicus . |
| 7 | Sinclair Hood ( 1971 , p. 45 ; 1978 , p. 41 ) sees at this time many signs of mainland influence ; new forms were introduced to Crete from the Greek mainland , including stemmed goblets decorated in the Ephyrean style . |
| 8 | In the Sejm elections contests for 65 per cent of the seats were restricted to candidates from the then ruling Polish United Workers ' Party ( PUWP ) , and from its traditional coalition partners the United Peasants ' Party ( ZSL ) and the Democratic Party ( SD ) or from three lay Roman Catholic organizations ; the remaining 35 per cent were contested by candidates from opposition or independent groups , and were all won by the Solidarity Citizens ' Committee ( the electoral platform of the recently relegalized Solidarity trade union ) . |
| 9 | Losses per share were reduced to 0.3p from 21.2p in 1991 . |
| 10 | Write-offs were reduced to £72.2m from £548.9m . |
| 11 | Operating losses were cut to £11.6m from £18.8m and group sales actually improved by a tenth to £399m , helped by favourable exchange rates . |
| 12 | Despite the valiant cries of ‘ We are the Bencey Boys ’ from the faithful few , we were subjected to jeers from the Alborne crowd as fighting broke out between the Athletico players on their way back to the dressing room . |
| 13 | 150 rare birds of prey , mainly large falcons , were taken to Spain from Saudi Arabia at the outbreak of the Gulf War by Philip Whitehead , until then the director of a falcon centre owned by the Saudi royal family . |
| 14 | Twelve appliances were sent to Gwynedd from Clwyd but Clwyd fire chief Ken Hayton says fire cover was not endangered . |
| 15 | Initial documents were sent to Dublin from Britain in January , but Mr Barnes has since revealed that more documents were supplied by London as recently as July . |
| 16 | The remains of Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty , the Roman Catholic Primate who had been imprisoned in 1949-56 and exiled in 1971 , were returned to Hungary from Mariazell in Austria and reinterred on May 4 at Esztergom , 16 years after his death . |
| 17 | In Bath , Nicholas Godfrey , 16 , was plucked to safety from the swollen River Avon as he clung on to a branch . |
| 18 | Under the old rating system , spending was limited to income from a 2p in the pound rate and an equivalent restriction was continued under the poll tax . |
| 19 | A popular legend tells of Arion , a lyric poet and musician , who was returning to Greece from Italy , laden with riches he had won at music competitions . |
| 20 | I shared a compartment with a tanned young man , blond as only a Swede can be , in wire-rimmed glasses and a pony-tail , who was returning to Göteborg from Algeciras , where he had been visiting a girlfriend , as he put it . |
| 21 | This was transferred to Wolverton from Derby and placed in one bay of the vacated Shell Machine Shop . |
| 22 | No. 5 Bourdon Road was leased to Vickers from 18 March 1975 to 25 March 1977 . |
| 23 | This technique was applied to data from the 1981 Greater London Transportation Survey , which were just becoming available , and the corresponding 1971 survey . |
| 24 | The series was moved to Cork from its usual four-year cycle to suit the occasion . |
| 25 | A 40-year-old man was airlifted to hospital from an Isle of Man-bound ferry after having a heart attack . |
| 26 | It was a tribute to Stephenson 's opinion of him that his son Robert [ q.v. ] was apprenticed to Wood from 1819 to 1821 at Killingworth . |
| 27 | Possibly the idea of the tholos tomb was exported to Mycenae from Crete . |
| 28 | The judge said an ‘ insert boom ’ was spreading to Britain from the United States and Europe . |
| 29 | Hastings , brother of tour captain Gavin , was driven to Invercargill from Dunedin yesterday and proved he had lost none of his usual high spirits . |
| 30 | The former , a native of China , was introduced to Britain from Japan via the United States in 1754 ; the latter , also from China , via the United States as recently as 1948 . |