Example sentences of "he was [verb] from [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Burning ‘ Our colleagues in Dover alerted us to his address because of a large amount of post he was receiving from Holland , ’ said the officer . |
| 2 | He was transferred from Liverpool in around ‘ 87 . |
| 3 | Following the case at Bristol Crown Court , he was transferred from Cheltenham police station to a post in Stroud . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Among those he approached to help with finding accommodation for the orthodox children he was bringing from Germany and Austria was Mrs Annie Wolfson . |
| 6 | He was flown from Edinburgh to Manchester airport before being taken for a tearful re-union with his mother 's parents . |
| 7 | The irony of excessive expenses incurred for Karl Marx 's daughter was n't lost on Rosenberg , but Aveling called his accusations ridiculous , and he was defended from England by Engels who brushed off Aveling 's embezzlements as the pranks of a boyish ‘ noodle ’ . |
| 8 | As an architect he was sent from Durham in 1364 to Coldingham priory , a Scottish dependency , and in 1367–74 had charge of building the great kitchen of Durham priory , with its remarkable vault of Spanish inspiration . |
| 9 | Another day he was sent from Washington to a Chinese vegetable stand on the Lower West Side in Manhattan , where he was told to ask for a person with the code name ‘ Mooey ’ ; Mooey went behind the counter , rolled up his trouser-leg and pulled out a wad of hundred-dollar bills , which Owen thought ‘ I had better count anyways . ’ |
| 10 | the whole of humanity , who had refused to listen to him , or to recognise that he was sent from God to bring all people back to himself . |
| 11 | Well he was ringing from Birmingham , he 'd put a pound in , it lasted twenty minutes . |
| 12 | The Sonata in A minor K.310/300d ( 25 ) was written in the summer of 1778 , following his mother 's death and at a time when he was parted from Aloysia Weber . |
| 13 | Afterwards , a Harvard director maintained : " Whatever anyone says , he was sacked from Sheppards . " |
| 14 | He was rusticated from Cambridge for a year , and never returned . |
| 15 | There is evidence to suggest that he was descended from Judas of Galilee , leader of the Zealots a century and a quarter before , and from the Zealot commanders at the capture and subsequent siege of Masada . |
| 16 | It may be that Aethelwald 's genealogy does not survive because his family did not claim descent from Ida and it is possible that he was descended from Oswine of Deira . |
| 17 | He was descended from Nevil Maskelyne [ q.v. ] , astronomer royal , who had a crater on the moon named after him . |
| 18 | He was less cautious , smiling more easily , spontaneous in repartee , enjoying the teasing he was getting from Djuna … |
| 19 | Ostrovsky had left Israel for Canada , his birthplace , in 1986 when he was dismissed from Mossad after working for them for some 17 months . |
| 20 | As a US diplomat tells it , ‘ He was driving from Lilongwe [ the Malawian capital ] to Lusaka when he was stopped near the border by police . |
| 21 | He was evacuated from Dunkirk and later was in the allied army of liberation that unzipped occupied Europe to the gates of Berlin . |
| 22 | Police said later that the man who was helping with inquiries had been detained as he was released from Armley jail , Leeds . |
| 23 | Police said later that the man who was helping with inquiries had been detained as he was released from Armley jail , Leeds , after serving a sentence . |
| 24 | The Marquis of Blandford arrived at Chipping Norton magistrates court to face a charge of possessing a shot gun without a licence , only weeks after he was released from Oxford prison . |
| 25 | He was released from Guy 's Hospital yesterday afternoon after being treated for severe lacerations to his wrists and arms . |
| 26 | He was banned from Highbury , then transferred to Plymouth . |
| 27 | His extraordinary conceit and capacity for intrigue spilled over into a genuine mental instability and in 1869 he was removed from Rome to a lunatic asylum in a convent at Passy , a suburb of Paris . |
| 28 | He was expelled from QUB after a conviction which resulted from a too-well-celebrated student society dinner . |
| 29 | But by 1646 he had been deprived of his parish and in 1648 he was expelled from Christ Church . |
| 30 | He faced a jeering 200strong crowd as he was hustled from Liverpool 's Admiral Street police station . |