Example sentences of "they [verb] [been] [verb] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though his features looked as if they 'd been carved from stone , in the depths of his gaze something stirred . |
| 2 | BELT UP With Marie Pisa Snow 's collection of Western-style belts , hat bands , boot and guitar straps made from the finest matt black Rolls Royce car leather They 've been collected from all over the world and have been wrapped around the waists of stars such as Tom Jones , David Bowie and Tina Turner 's tour band . |
| 3 | They 've been withdrawn from sale , but its feared other mowers with similar cabling could still be available in shops around Britain . |
| 4 | They 've been transferred from Princess Margaret Hospital in Swindon , where hospital managers have been forced to close three operating theatres . |
| 5 | They 've been relegated from the Vauxhall Conference . |
| 6 | They 've been trained from early age have n't they ? |
| 7 | They 've been formed from separate corps looking after Transport , Ordnance , Supplies , Catering and Military Mail . |
| 8 | They 've been banned from sale in Oxfordshire , but hundreds are believed to be in circulation across the country . |
| 9 | No they 've been banned from taking them in in case they clobbered anyone with them you see oh they were banned some time ago , as were flags they used to carry flags at one time and rattles , but er they do n't let you take anything in . |
| 10 | They 've been coming from afar to pay homage to the king of Carradock Court Stables . |
| 11 | The bridge , owned and protected by English Heritage , will eventually be rebuilt with the original stones , once they 've been recovered from the river bed . |
| 12 | They felt that through joining the movement they had been liberated from the ills of modern society and that they were at last free to make the world a better place and themselves better people . |
| 13 | Neither the crew of this vessel nor its captain , a certain Captain Robert Anderson who , I believe , is still at large , knew that they had been monitored from the moment they had left port by an American spy-in-the sky satellite . |
| 14 | The American people told him at the polls what they had been screaming from the rooftops for two years . |
| 15 | Instead they had been separated from their ‘ bosses ’ and relegated to word-processing pools to type for ‘ dictators ’ . |
| 16 | All of a sudden they realised they had been tricked from the very beginning . |
| 17 | They had been moved from the prison to Avicennes hospital in June after a serious deterioration in their condition . |
| 18 | The drawing-room was full of rugs that looked upsettingly as if they had been made from earlier Afghans . |
| 19 | A year later , in October 1980 , after they had been dislodged from a public vigil in the main square of San Salvador , they occupied the offices of the Ministry of Justice . |
| 20 | Anthony 's hard features looked as if they had been carved from stone . |
| 21 | But they have learned far more about morality this way than they would have done if they had been stopped from making their threats . |
| 22 | The two assassins had joined the crew of the navy rescue expedition which had followed the escape pod down from the survey vessel from which it had been ejected , and they had been prevented from finishing off both their intended victim and the accidental witnesses only because of the timely intervention of a Yek patrol . |
| 23 | Some of the new services permitted by the Act are simply those offered by many other financial intermediaries , requiring no especial change in the balance sheet but drawing upon societies ' general financial expertise which hitherto they had been prevented from using to its fullest extent . |
| 24 | On June 25 they had been prevented from visiting a site at Abu Gharaib , near Baghdad , and on June 27 the UN Security Council ordered Iraq to disclose the whereabouts of nuclear bomb-making equipment after viewing US reconnaissance photographs which suggested that nuclear-related material had been removed from the research site of Tuwaitha to Abu Gharaib . |
| 25 | I 'd like to ask the convenor erm how would he have er replied to a young woman who came to me fairly recently whose husband had just left home by mutual agreement , and for the sake of their children and er she said to me after he had gone er that the home was a much happier place now that there was , they had been freed from the tension that they had been going through in a very difficult time . |
| 26 | The meal that accompanied it was a feast , cooked and served by the patronne with justifiable pride : tiny moules marinières , which tasted as if they had been cut from the rocks that morning ; bifteck , brown and crisp on the outside , perfectly rare within ; a platter of thin crisp sizzling hot pommes frites ; an excellent salad , served in a plain white bowl . |
| 27 | They had been selected from a pile of ‘ sets ’ which the Second Son had gleaned from the finest merchants in Abu Dhabi and brought to the Sheikha . |
| 28 | Lost on their way , they had been rescued from a Chaos attack by the Treeman Oakheart and his people . |
| 29 | They had been fleeing from the pursuing cloud front , but now they were charging to meet its attack . |
| 30 | But allegations that patients were not given adequate care after they had been discharged from the unit were , on balance , in this investigation , unproven . |