Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [vb pp] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | J. G. C. Anderson was recruited in 1937 and T. R. M. Lawrie was transferred from England in 1939 . |
| 2 | Mr Mandela was brought from prison on Robben Island to join his colleagues , and the trial began on 9 October . |
| 3 | In April 1327 Edward was moved from Renilworth to Berkeley Castle . |
| 4 | When Barbarossa was driven from Rome in 1167 many of the cities of the Po valley joined together in the Lombard League under the aegis of Milan ; and they built a new fortress town over against imperial Turin , guarding the approach to Lombardy from the west , which they called Alessandria after the emperor 's great rival , Pope Alexander III . |
| 5 | On May 26 Zeyal Sarhadi was extradited from Switzerland to France , following a ruling by Switzerland 's Federal Tribunal . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Reynolds was banned from athletics for two years after testing positive for steroids . |
| 8 | 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 " . |
| 9 | Athens was expelled from Boiotia in 446 , and the Boiotian League was perhaps reorganized now ; in a valuable description the Oxyrhynchus Historian ( chapter xvi ) gives the system essentially as it was in the 440s , though for instance he takes account of Plataia 's destruction in 427 , after which Thebes took her votes . |
| 10 | And Lexandro was hurled from dreams of incandescence into that now sooty cavity . |
| 11 | Haig was saved from dismissal by defenders on the Unionist side , but Robertson 's removal caused a small stir , and Unionists voted in force to save Lloyd George 's face in the Maurice debate . |
| 12 | We took the route through Cheapside because the Thames was frozen from bank to bank , past the mansions of the rich , the stalls full of fripperies , the mouldering Eleanor Cross and the great Conduit which was supposed to bring fresh water into the city . |
| 13 | The Witham was frozen from bank to bank from Lincoln to Boston . |
| 14 | At the same time Mavis Muyunda was moved from Health to the Ministry of Water , Lands and Natural Resources and was replaced by her deputy , Jeremiah Chijikwa . |
| 15 | My interest in China was increased from time to time by my acquaintance with a Cantonese who operated a shoe repair shop on the High Street . |
| 16 | Named after the lion , Singapore was plucked from obscurity by the British , who were keen to develop the city-state as a trading port . |
| 17 | The minute his attention was removed to the next , Kennedy was appraised from head to foot . |
| 18 | Li Changchun was shifted from Liaoning to Henan , replacing Cheng Weigao who went to Hebei . |
| 19 | And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee , named Nazareth . |
| 20 | After the brief administration of Sosuke Uno , Kaifu was plucked from obscurity in order to act as caretaker Prime Minister until such time as the Recruit scandal had receded . |
| 21 | That was when Fernandez was hired from Miami for $195,000 a year and a basket of pension plans that would excite a baseball player . |
| 22 | A 12-hour radio synthesis map of the field of PSR J0437–4715 was made from observations on 13 August 1992 . |
| 23 | It was the first occasion on which the country had voted since Gen. Manuel Noriega was removed from power by US forces in December 1989 and replaced by President Guillermo Endara Gallimany [ see pp. 37112-13 ] . |
| 24 | On July 4 Gandhi promoted a number of junior ministers ( see pp. 36027-28 for previous portfolios ) ; D. L. Baitha was promoted to Minister of State for Defence Production replacing Chintamani Panigraphi who had been appointed Governor of Manipur a few days earlier [ see above ] ; Mahavir Prasad became Minister of State for Mines ; P. Namgyal became Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and Chemicals and Petrochemicals ; Sumati Oraon became Minister of State for Environment and Forests ; Radhakrishna Malaviya became Minister of State for Labour and Parliamentary Affairs ; Saroj Khaparde was shifted from Minister of State for Health to Textiles ; Giridhar Gomango was given independent charge of the Communications Ministry ( following the death of the Communications Minister in May — see p. 36657 ) ; and Rafiq Alam became Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare ( independent charge ) , a post which had been vacant since the January appointment of Moti Lal Vora as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh . |
| 25 | At two Mina was passed from father to husband . |
| 26 | On the same day Richard Gough was transferred from Spurs to Rangers for £1.5 million . |
| 27 | The 48ft 6in Solent class lifeboat Hugh William Viscount Gough was launched from Dunbar in the same search for the missing divers as the Eyemouth lifeboat on 6 October 1990 ( see previous page ) , and the efforts of her Coxswain during the service won him the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum . |
| 28 | Nine hundred prisoners were slaughtered on the battlefield and as Arundell was escorted from Cornwall to the Tower of London , he saw many a miserable peasant dangling from a crossroads gibbet . |
| 29 | 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 ] . |
| 30 | 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 . |