Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CHUBB Security , which was floated off from Racal Electronics last October , today published a sparkling first set of accounts as a separate company . |
| 2 | He was flown out from Dublin airport to Manchester after waiving the rights he possessed under Irish law which would have allowed him to stage a marathon legal battle to stay in the Republic . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The body of Stanislovas Jamaitis was flown in from Moscow , received by his family . |
| 5 | Hours before Alkaisi 's arrest , another suspect , Mahmud Abohalima , was flown in from Egypt . |
| 6 | She was flown back from Zimbabwe at the weekend for treatment at Newcastle 's Royal Victoria Infirmary . |
| 7 | It also , as was pointed out from Scotland , affected the committee structure , its purpose and value , within institutions : |
| 8 | The barrister Anthony Hope Hawkins was walking back from Westminster Crown Court to the Temple on 28 November 1893 , having won his case , when the idea of Ruritania came into his head : |
| 9 | ‘ I remember the winter of 1962–3 when Feethams was frozen over from Boxing Day until March and the pile up of fixtures was horrendous . |
| 10 | This study was carried out from March to December 1989 at the Kenyatta National Hospital , which is the only free public hospital in Nairobi , a city of 1.28 million residents . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll see if I can get tickets , ’ was all he offered before kissing her sweetly on the mouth and going inside to get some paperwork together for the meeting with his lawyer who was driving out from Palma to see him . |
| 12 | If he was chucked in from Blackfriars Bridge , for instance , he 'd have fetched up where he did in about half an hour . " |
| 13 | Scotmid ’ helped celebrate with a large birthday cake which was accepted by from Craighall Day Centre for people with special needs . |
| 14 | She declared the Gainford property to be very nice to live in but ‘ of no serious interest ’ because it was made up from bits and pieces of different vintage . |
| 15 | Up to 1750 the most significant group of investors was made up from gentlemen , landowners , yeomen and tenant farmers . |
| 16 | He would invade in the east , making no secret of his intention from Northumberland ; and Balliol , necessarily stiffen d by Lord Dacre and Sir Anthony Lucy , the English Middle and West March Wardens respectively , was to march in from Carlisle and Cumbria . |
| 17 | Confidence was handed on from patient to patient . ’ |
| 18 | In the course of the evening a note was handed in from Mrs Campbell of Jura House saying she had heard of our arrival and as she was sure there was no comfort in the Hotel she hoped we would come there in the morning and stay with them while we were on the island , assuring us also that she would do all in her power to further the cause for which we had come . |
| 19 | So what if she has only three frocks to her name ( ‘ cuts down on the washin' ’ ) Or if her ‘ fur ’ coat looks like it was handed down from Wilma Flintstone . |
| 20 | Cricket lore was handed down from Yorkshire dad to lad , so much so that in the end the family history itself was the enemy . |
| 21 | Money was handed down from father to son ; it lost its merit as a token of worth ; the idle and nasty could be a great deal more rich than the hardworking and good . |
| 22 | AN EVEN more unlikely winner , Neighbours was bought in from Australia and only took off when Michael Grade moved it from lunch hour to teatime because his daughter , Alison , asked him to . |
| 23 | Some fine work , depicting Wales 's cultural background was going out from Cardiff . |
| 24 | The parrot was scuttling along from arm to arm across his shoulders . |
| 25 | First there was a welcome break when we took Venturous westward across the Minch to Stornoway where we had arranged to pick up Reg Clarke , our reigning cutter management Principal , who was flying up from London HQ to see some of our work first hand . |
| 26 | Then I remembered he was flying back from Sydney on that day . |
| 27 | A little later , at 7 p.m. , the whole scene was lit up from time to time by electrical discharges , and at one time the cloud above the mountain presented ‘ the appearance of an immense pine tree , with the stem and branches formed with volcanic lightning ’ . |
| 28 | In a similar kind of way , one Essex farm labourer 's daughter was called back from service to live with her ageing parents again , the household supported partly from the wages of younger brothers , and partly from pigs and hens which the old couple kept themselves . |
| 29 | And we just happened to see it as were was coming back from Thurmaston we popped in and sa granddad got a |
| 30 | Mrs Darne was coming back from Tina 's . |