Example sentences of "he was [verb] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't tell much about him as he was covered from head to toe in red crash helmet with black visor , red riding leathers and red boots . |
| 2 | But he was learning from experience and moved from town to town to polish his burglary skills . |
| 3 | He refused to comment as he was bundled from court with his girlfriend into a waiting car . |
| 4 | The Ukrainian superstar had won every major championship since 1983 — with the exception of the European title in 1990 when he was recovering from injury — said : ‘ I had problems with the swirling wind . |
| 5 | Then the riots blazed and he was plucked from barracks , given a month 's emergency training and sent into the streets . |
| 6 | He was grinning from ear to ear and pointing his finger up to the flies . |
| 7 | ‘ Get on with it , Ruthie , ’ he told her , and though he was grinning from ear to ear she knew what was powering him and she felt the excitement blossom in herself . |
| 8 | He was grinning from ear to ear and the first stabs of doubt needled at Ruth 's heart . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He was transferred from Liverpool in around ‘ 87 . |
| 11 | Following the case at Bristol Crown Court , he was transferred from Cheltenham police station to a post in Stroud . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Among those he approached to help with finding accommodation for the orthodox children he was bringing from Germany and Austria was Mrs Annie Wolfson . |
| 14 | In middle age he became more patient as he was harried from city to city and lost all his papers in a shipwreck . |
| 15 | She waited until he was lost from sight , and lifted an apple when the stallholder was n't looking . |
| 16 | ‘ I believe he was lost from time to time , but that of course is inevitable in a down-market operation . |
| 17 | Now he was lost from view . |
| 18 | He was flown from Edinburgh to Manchester airport before being taken for a tearful re-union with his mother 's parents . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Well he was ringing from Birmingham , he 'd put a pound in , it lasted twenty minutes . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Afterwards , a Harvard director maintained : " Whatever anyone says , he was sacked from Sheppards . " |
| 26 | He was rusticated from Cambridge for a year , and never returned . |
| 27 | Presumably she thought he was phoning from home — something he 'd never do . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He was descended from slaves who had accompanied their master , one Rafe Straker , from Long Island in 1783 . |
| 30 | 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 . |