Example sentences of "was [vb pp] from prison [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Mandela was brought from prison on Robben Island to join his colleagues , and the trial began on 9 October . |
| 2 | After his inevitable conviction Cranmer was brought from prison in Oxford to the University Church of St Mary the Virgin to be formally degraded by the papal commissioners . |
| 3 | He was reported to have said that the killing was ordered from prison by a Jihad leader Sawfat Abdel Ghani , who had been convicted of involvement in the killing of al-Mahgoub . |
| 4 | Gen. Hartono Resko Dharsono , Indonesia 's most prominent dissident , was released from prison on Sept. 16 . |
| 5 | He was released from prison on Feb. 9 , 1990 , and held a seventh meeting with Arafat on March 9 . |
| 6 | A British businessman , Roger Cooper , 55 , was released from prison on April 1 and returned to London on April 2 . |
| 7 | Mario Chanes de Armas , 65 , who took part in the 1953 assault on the Moncada Barracks and was one of the original rebels who had landed in the Granma in 1956 to launch the revolution , was released from prison on July 16 , after serving 30 years for allegedly plotting to assassinate Castro . |
| 8 | Jimmy Stevens , the leader of a secessionist rebellion in Vanuatu in 1980 [ see pp. 30642-44 ] , was released from prison on Aug. 19 after serving 11 years of a 14@1/2-year sentence for treason . |
| 9 | Following an appeal made by Major during his visit , the Hong Kong businessman Luo Haixing was released from prison on Sept. 9 " on bail for medical treatment outside the country " . |
| 10 | Veteran peace campaigner Abie Nathan was released from prison on March 30 after serving six months of an 18-month sentence for meeting Yassir Arafat , chair of the Palestine Liberation Organization . |
| 11 | Bankrupt Australian entrepreneur Alan Bond was released from prison on Aug. 27 after the Western Australian Court of Criminal Appeal quashed a fraud conviction against him . |
| 12 | Nicu Ceausescu , the son of the late dictator Nicolae Ceausescu , was released from prison on Nov. 24 on health grounds ; he was said to be suffering from cirrhosis of the liver . |
| 13 | Angel Alcalde , who became a deputy for United People ( Herri Batasuna — HB ) , the political wing of ETA , following the assassination on Nov. 20 , 1989 , of Josu Muguruza , an HB deputy in the Cortes [ see p. 37050 ] , was released from prison by order of the courts on Dec. 1 in order to take up his seat . |
| 14 | Elizardo Sánchez Santacruz , a political dissident widely recognized as a prisoner of conscience , was released from prison by the Cuban authorities on May 5 . |
| 15 | Mr Bull said since Smith was released from prison in April 1990 , after laundering stolen cheques , he had been unable to get a job until he managed to fool the WDA . |
| 16 | Despenser 's heir was released from prison in July 1331 , but had to wait until 1337 before receiving any of his father 's inheritance . |
| 17 | In early April 1990 , Price was released from prison in Sweden after serving approximately five years of his sentence . |
| 18 | On 6 July , Price was released from prison in this country . |
| 19 | Orlando Ramón Agosti , a member of the ruling military junta in 1976-79 , was released from prison in May 1989 after serving part of a 4@1/2-year sentence imposed in December 1985 for torture and robbery committed during the dirty war [ see p. 34667 ] . |
| 20 | Han Dongfeng , leader of the Beijing Autonomous Workers ' Union ( BAWU ) , was released from prison in late April after being detained without trial for 22 months . |
| 21 | He was released from prison in September . |
| 22 | He was released from prison after thirty months , returned to his barker 's job in San Francisco and took up with a stripper . |
| 23 | On April 28 Palestinian academic and PLO supporter Sari Nusseibeh was released from prison after three months of " administrative detention " for allegedly carrying out spying activities for Iraq [ see p. 37976 ] . |