Example sentences of "flown [adv prt] from [noun] " in BNC.

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1 JFK : flown down from Washington and flung together by the doctors ' knives and the sniper 's bullets and introduced on to the streets of Dallas and a hero 's welcome .
2 I have only just flown in from Paris and I am very tired . ’
3 The sofas and chairs were deep and soft enough to fall asleep in , a fireplace was topped by an Adam mantel which Hugo had had flown out from England and everywhere there were fresh flowers — long stemmed hothouse roses , orchids flown in from Singapore , daffodils and narcissi and heavy perfumed hyacinths .
4 The nearest supply of that now will have to be flown in from Rockhampton . ’
5 The one on the right had flown in from Finland .
6 His 38th-minute effort came straight from the dream factory , which was appropriate considering he had flown in from EuroDisney only three hours before kick-off .
7 And for apres-apres-ski there were always the lovely blonde women flown in from Madam Claudes famous establishment in Paris .
8 Instead , he drove away in the , ran over a kerb , got a flat tyre and kept going — to pick up Vicky Vanderford , whom he had flown in from California .
9 Pietro has flown in from London and he 's assured me that as soon as the gang make contact the matter will be resolved without further delay .
10 The body of Stanislovas Jamaitis was flown in from Moscow , received by his family .
11 David Smith was flown in from England as cover for Gooch , only to have his thumb badly bruised in the one-day international in Barbados and so miss the Bridgetown Test .
12 The madman has just flown in from Rome on a whim , to spend a few days with me here .
13 Marshals — and waitresses flown in from Germany — will make sure drinkers do n't get too many steins of beer at the four day event .
14 Bernadette 's tearful sister Rosie , who had flown in from Germany , said : ‘ All the relatives are giving Farrah lots of hugs and kisses .
15 Scientists stress they 've used a harmless form of plutonium , which has been flown in from Russia .
16 Scientists stress they 've used a harmless form of plutonium , which has been flown in from Russia .
17 The makings of a quite substantial tomato salad mystique are scattered around waiting to be gathered up by some enterprising buyer who will get the produce flown in from Barcelona or Marseilles , Naples , Valencia or even possibly from Portugal , where the tomatoes are as good and plentiful as anywhere in Mediterranean lands .
18 Hours before Alkaisi 's arrest , another suspect , Mahmud Abohalima , was flown in from Egypt .
19 With al-Kassar 's blessing , he met the Magharians in Bern and Zurich to set up accounts for his family , each meeting taped and monitored by Coleman 's assistant Syrian George , who had been flown in from Cyprus for this purpose .
20 Ms Toynbee said Schmit had flown in from Zurich earlier that morning and was waiting to travel on another Wardair flight to Vancouver .
21 It had been specially flown in from Duxford Air Museum in Cambridgeshire and for the veterans and locals of Parham it was a picture they 'll never forget .
22 Flown in from Wyton , Cambs , in January 1975 , XK695 is a classic example of how quickly a big jet can decay .
23 He would have to piss in the backseat , and that was imported Argentine leather hand-tooled by a specialist flown in from Tijuana .
24 The food at the hotel is mostly flown in from Vienna , so staying at Fudauri is Georgian extra-extra luxury .
25 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 .
26 Yugoslav Macedonians had also been flown back from Athens under a new regulation demanding that they should possess US$1,000 on entry to Greece .
27 She was flown back from Zimbabwe at the weekend for treatment at Newcastle 's Royal Victoria Infirmary .
28 He said the 51 people flown back from Hong Kong early yesterday had been removed ‘ in line with procedures used worldwide to remove people refused permission to remain in a territory .
29 The Qulis — who were met by police at Heathrow — had flown back from Dublin after collecting Farrah from Limerick .
30 The MGN chairman , Sir Robert Clark , is believed to have flown back from Bermuda for a board meeting but board member Lord Hollick , a Labour peer , stayed abroad ski-ing .
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