Example sentences of "was [verb] from one [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A dealer was sacked from one firm because he had leaked disloyal comments to the Press , and the tape was played back to him as evidence . |
| 2 | Ostensibly defending the sanctity of the Sabbath against the joyful musical interruptions of the Salvationists , it was reported from one area that rioting Skeletonites were dressed in ‘ coloured rags and tinsel , masks , helmets , and other pantomime clothing ’ , and in several localities police chiefs found it necessary to ban Salvation Army processions for fear of riots . |
| 3 | At an earlier stage in my career I was transferred from one division of ICI to a new one . |
| 4 | I was transferred from one office to another before being shown into an office whose occupant was asleep in an armchair by the window . |
| 5 | Marriage remained very much an institution whereby property was transferred from one family to another — just as Aquitaine was transferred first to the Capetians and then to the Angevins . |
| 6 | A town which was moved from one county to another almost twenty years ago is to move back again . |
| 7 | That was where Obispal was heading from one direction . |
| 8 | We forced our way through the bustling market which was packed from one end to the other with stalls , carts , horses and people of every station ; the poor in their rags , the rich in their costly silks . |
| 9 | Florence was moving from one foot to the other as she helped her off with the coat . |
| 10 | But it was still very difficult , because every day I was in London I was moving from one business to the other and they could not have been more different in character . |
| 11 | We also know that when a new layer arrived , it was not deposited simultaneously all over the preceding layer , it was unrolled from one side or the other , so that the actual contact was progressive rather than synchronous . |
| 12 | She was greeted from one end of the ward to the other by a stream of swearing and other abuse . |
| 13 | Starkly outlined against the pale skin of his lower jaw , a thin trickle of blood was running from one corner of his mouth . |
| 14 | seen me I was running from one room to the other . |
| 15 | Althusser suggests that although Marxist history is defined as a theory of the modes of production , Marx did not give us any theory of how the transition was effected from one mode of production to another , nor of how each mode of production was constituted . |
| 16 | A £70 pair of sunglasses was taken from one car and thieves tried to break into another . |
| 17 | Norman Baillie-Stewart had suffered three years of bureaucratic delay while his application was passed from one office to another and back again . |
| 18 | Their firm had been given short shrift and was passed from one office to the next . |
| 19 | But you see I was thrown from one teacher all the time Miss all the time |
| 20 | Zaria was hopping from one foot to the other . |
| 21 | Porter peered over the landing rail , through the steel netting that was strung from one side to the other , and noticed that , on the landing below , prisoners who had finished slopping out had not in fact returned to their cells but were standing outside , their attempts at entry barred by warders . |
| 22 | The packet had been ripped open and a small bite was missing from one corner . |