Example sentences of "was [verb] from [noun prp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1798 Murdock was recalled from Cornwall to the Soho Works . |
| 2 | He added : ‘ I was staggered to learn that limestone was to go from Redmire to Redcar by road when we were told in 1988 that British Steel could n't get enough of it and had put on an additional train . |
| 3 | A wealthy man , without flying experience , was flown from London to Paris by his pilot . |
| 4 | He was flown from Edinburgh to Manchester airport before being taken for a tearful re-union with his mother 's parents . |
| 5 | Valerio Viccei , 37 , who is thought to have got away with £26 million from the daring robbery , was flown from Heathrow to Rome where he faces questioning over 50 unsolved crimes . |
| 6 | On May 26 Zeyal Sarhadi was extradited from Switzerland to France , following a ruling by Switzerland 's Federal Tribunal . |
| 7 | The most recent launch , the first flight of the second orbiter , Challenger , was delayed from January to April because of persistent fuel and coolant leaks from the main engines . |
| 8 | There would also be problems with the EC if more authority was devolved from Westminster to Brussels . |
| 9 | After his arrival back from Siwa , Stirling was driving from Alexandria to Cairo when he was involved in a serious road accident . |
| 10 | What brought all this on was driving from Berlin to Leipzig and back . |
| 11 | The empty two-unit pacer passenger train was returning from Goole to its depot at Doncaster , with only the driver and guard on board . |
| 12 | One rainy afternoon in November 1982 , when 1 was returning from Basrah to Baghdad by car , we were overtaken and swept along by the motorized column of President Saddam himself . |
| 13 | Hazard was transferred from Tottenham to Chelsea on September 19 , 1985 and from there to Portsmouth on January 11 , 1990 . |
| 14 | In March 1938 , the former L.C.C 's blue painted car No. 1 , was transferred from Holloway to Telford Avenue depôt and painted red . |
| 15 | He was not only a fine footballer , he was also a gentleman to the Nth degree , and he told the story , I remember , he started his erm , professional football career in this country , with Barnsley , and he was transferred from Barnsley to Aston Villa , and at the time there was some haggling over the fee , and er , he was taken by the chairman of Barnsley , to meet the chairman of Aston Villa in the chairman 's Rolls Royce . |
| 16 | The school health service was transferred from LEAs to area health authorities , but LEAs were required to provide facilities for dental and medical inspection of pupils . |
| 17 | Isaac avoided execution by promising the king a 10,000 mark fine , and in 1213 was transferred from Bristol to the Tower of London . |
| 18 | Shen Tong , a leader of the 1989 pro-democracy movement , was deported from China to the USA on Oct. 24 . |
| 19 | However , 5 April 1990 was noteworthy enough : an earthquake of magnitude 5.1 , one of the largest in Britain this century , near Bishop 's Castle in Shropshire was felt from Ayrshire to Cornwall and Kent to Dublin . |
| 20 | Shaking was felt from Ayrshire to Cornwall and Kent to Dublin , but damage was limited mainly to roof slates and chimney stacks . |
| 21 | Sladen was looking from George to Husband and back again , twitching his head from side to side like a tennis umpire . |
| 22 | Sun Life Assurance employs 2500 employees and in 1976 the head office was relocated from London to Bristol . |
| 23 | In April 1327 Edward was moved from Renilworth to Berkeley Castle . |
| 24 | All five companies returned safely and , with the prospect of invasion looming nearer , the training centre was moved from Richborough to the West Country . |
| 25 | Even so , in 979 a body was moved from Wareham to the nunnery at Shaftesbury , and in 1001 transferred again from the churchyard to inside the abbey . |
| 26 | The economy of the peninsula rapidly deteriorated and the seat of government of the western part of the Roman Empire was moved from Rome to different centres for safety . |
| 27 | The fountain erected in memory of Dr John Fothergill , founding member of the Darlington Temperance Society was moved from Bondgate to South Park in 1875 . |
| 28 | In the autumn of 1982 John was transferred from Coningsby to become Commanding Officer at Wildenrath in West Germany , and so the Corsair was moved from Coningsby to Duxford , becoming one of the first privately-owned warbirds to be based there . |
| 29 | At one time a footway was made from Skinnergate to North Bondgate to save people 's shoes . |
| 30 | as if to seal off the barbarians and leave them to their own devices , Hadrian 's Wall was built from Solway to Tyne between AD 122 and 127 . |