Example sentences of "was [vb pp] from [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In April 1945 , while the division was stationed near Graz under the command of the SS Gen Freytag , it was joined from Berlin by Gen Pavel Shandruk , President of the German-sponsored Ukrainian National Committee and Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian National Army ( of which the 1st Ukrainian Division was the most important component ) . |
| 2 | In 1798 Murdock was recalled from Cornwall to the Soho Works . |
| 3 | UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher called the execution " an act of barbarism " , and the British ambassador was recalled from Iraq for consultations ; planned ministerial and trade visits were cancelled and Iraqi students attending Ministry of Defence training courses in the UK were sent home . |
| 4 | It was withdrawn from BR in 1987 , its last depot being Gateshead . |
| 5 | Ostrovsky had left Israel for Canada , his birthplace , in 1986 when he was dismissed from Mossad after working for them for some 17 months . |
| 6 | Despite his popularity with Rangers fans , the English midfield hardman , Graham Roberts , was banished from Ibrox after a dressing room argument with Souness . |
| 7 | She was banished from Massachussetts for her efforts and moved to Rhode Island with her husband an large family of children . |
| 8 | A wealthy man , without flying experience , was flown from London to Paris by his pilot . |
| 9 | He was flown from Edinburgh to Manchester airport before being taken for a tearful re-union with his mother 's parents . |
| 10 | Well I , well er I came back to Britain er I , I was er liberated by General Patton in a , a small place called Erfurt I was flown from Erfurt into Cherbourg , and from Cherbourg into a small place called Amersham which was a reception station for prisoners of war , where we were treated er on entering the camp we were handed a telegram . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Since 1945 , when it was annexed from Germany by the Soviet Union , it has been Kaliningrad . |
| 13 | The case was distinguished from Percival v. |
| 14 | She 'd die if she was parted from Ricky for five minutes . |
| 15 | After a 10-month battle , self-proclaimed white supremacist Byron de la Beckwith , 70 , was extradited from Tennessee on Oct. 4 to face a third trial in Mississippi for the killing in 1963 of Medgar Evers , at the time the state 's leading black activist [ see p. 19771 ] . |
| 16 | On May 26 Zeyal Sarhadi was extradited from Switzerland to France , following a ruling by Switzerland 's Federal Tribunal . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There would also be problems with the EC if more authority was devolved from Westminster to Brussels . |
| 19 | In Lebanon , where the Palestinian war against Israel was focused once the PLO 's guerrilla movement was evicted from Jordan in 1970 , they were squirrelled away beneath floors or carpets , sometimes stored in rusting biscuit tins , broken suitcases and ancient trunks , often the very containers in which the refugees carried their most valuable belongings from Palestine in 1948 . |
| 20 | The whole Palestinian resistance was evicted from Jordan within a year , amid widespread bloodshed in which perhaps as many as 3,000 refugees perished . |
| 21 | It was reported from Bulgaria in 1989 that the trees in 25,000 hectares out of 35,000 hectares of silver fir forest were severely damaged or dying . |
| 22 | Despite the fact that he was dropped from Greenpeace in 1977 for being too much of an activist , it seems that he is not blindly reckless . |
| 23 | J. G. C. Anderson was recruited in 1937 and T. R. M. Lawrie was transferred from England in 1939 . |
| 24 | He was transferred from Liverpool in around ‘ 87 . |
| 25 | Hazard was transferred from Tottenham to Chelsea on September 19 , 1985 and from there to Portsmouth on January 11 , 1990 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Isaac avoided execution by promising the king a 10,000 mark fine , and in 1213 was transferred from Bristol to the Tower of London . |
| 30 | Shen Tong , a leader of the 1989 pro-democracy movement , was deported from China to the USA on Oct. 24 . |