Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] had [be] [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Her voice was shaking as she told me that on returning from the cinema a couple of weeks earlier she had been grabbed from behind , dragged into an alley and viciously raped at knifepoint . |
| 3 | Then he had been reprieved from an open-ended sentence of death by combat , and raised to a position of great prestige and power which also promised a life of action and danger well suited to his special talents . |
| 4 | Instead they had been separated from their ‘ bosses ’ and relegated to word-processing pools to type for ‘ dictators ’ . |
| 5 | Afterwards , when ethylene became available on a large scale from oil refining processes — previously it had been made from alcohol — the price of the polymer dropped . |