Example sentences of "was [verb] from [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result the aircraft proved a failure and following a spectacular crash at the Paris air show in 1964 was withdrawn from service altogether . |
| 2 | The building was rescued from dereliction earlier this year . |
| 3 | CORONATION Street actress Lynne Perrie was discharged from hospital yesterday eight days after collapsing during rehearsals . |
| 4 | There were crates with us in the carriage ; he was escaping from home again . |
| 5 | The uniform in which he was frequently photographed was made from material privately purchased by his German friends to replace the ill-fitting civilian suit with which the very tall general was issued on his arrival in Germany . |
| 6 | Acting on this belief , he has : taken one of the most outspoken current-affairs programmes , ‘ Vzglyad ’ ( Outlook ) , off the air ; confiscated the property of the independent news agency Interfax , which was saved from closure only by the intervention of Boris Yeltsin and the Moscow city council ; suspended a free-thinking television news show called ‘ TSN ’ ; and consigned Radio Russia , Mr Yeltsin 's mouthpiece , to a frequency where most of the population can not hear it begin its broadcasts with phrases like ‘ In another move reminiscent of Stalinism , President Gorbachev today … ’ |
| 7 | A BATTERED wife who burned her brutal husband to death was freed from jail yesterday . |
| 8 | In 1774–80 for every British seaman who lost his life in battle , fifteen died of disease , while in 1779 Britain was preserved from invasion partly by the scurvy which swept the French and Spanish squadrons then for a time in control of the Channel . |
| 9 | No do n't forget again all the things that you recognize from somebody who was suffering from shock right do n't forget how we treat them okay and we 'll run a film for you now erm , no perhaps we wo n't we 'll deal with the severe bleeding on the palm of the hand and get that out of the way |
| 10 | Campbell , however , was suffering from flu yesterday and a decision on his fitness will not be made until today . |
| 11 | The extent to which silver was obtained from galena rather than from natural silver-gold alloys can be judged in part through the presence of lead artefacts and more directly by the purity of silver artefacts . |
| 12 | And if she was missing from home why were n't her family moving heaven and earth to get her back ? |
| 13 | Dharsono was released from jail exactly a month after President Suharto had spoken of the need " to promote human rights " during his National Day speech . |
| 14 | She was released from hospital yesterday after having her stomach pumped . |
| 15 | The Queen Mother , who was released from hospital yesterday after a three-night stay for an operation to remove a piece of fish lodged in her throat , is president of the association . |
| 16 | Why did this right-wing Tory minister announce that he was retiring from politics just three weeks before the election was announced , when his campaign posters had already been printed ? |