Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If he was chucked in from Blackfriars Bridge , for instance , he 'd have fetched up where he did in about half an hour . " |
| 11 | Scotmid ’ helped celebrate with a large birthday cake which was accepted by from Craighall Day Centre for people with special needs . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Up to 1750 the most significant group of investors was made up from gentlemen , landowners , yeomen and tenant farmers . |
| 14 | Confidence was handed on from patient to patient . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Cricket lore was handed down from Yorkshire dad to lad , so much so that in the end the family history itself was the enemy . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The £10 million sun and sangria soap was set up from scratch in just six months . |
| 23 | His body was brought over from New York by Mary Read and fifty Girls representing troupes all over the country met at Westminster Bridge Road and had the strange experience of travelling in the Necropolis Funeral train to Brookwood Cemetery . |
| 24 | Two other drugs were introduced in the sixteenth century , ‘ China root ’ , an extract of Smilax sinensis , which was brought over from Goa by the Portuguese , and sarsaparilla from Sassafras officinale , an American plant . |
| 25 | Geoffrey was brought up from infancy with the sons of neighbouring Angevin lords , on whose companionship he relied . |
| 26 | Almost danced with joy as the royal corpse was brought back from Kinghorn ? |
| 27 | So the arrangements were made with the White Star line and unbeknown to Nellie , Liam eventually did get two reservations on the new ship , which was brought down from Liverpool to Southampton , where most of the passengers got on , and then to Cherbourg to pick up some more and finally to Queenstown before crossing the Atlantic to New York . |
| 28 | Road blocks were set up and a helicopter equipped with heat-seeking equipment was brought in from Manchester as police began a house-to-house search . |
| 29 | Left-sided utility man Donal O'Neill was brought in from Omagh , along with Derek Donaghy , ex-Ballyclare Comrades full back and Denis Rodgers , a centre back from the Welders . |
| 30 | Dunn was brought in from Ford , where he was director of product development in 1983 ; he will be best remembered for the development of the Bentley Turbo R , now the company 's best-selling model . |