Example sentences of "[vb past] be [verb] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few months later I saw two who 'd been evacuated from Sarajevo to Zagreb so they were still alive . |
| 2 | Once she 'd got known for being presentable , turning up sober and on time , not leaving early with the spoons and able to tell left hand from right , word got round and she 'd been passed from college to college by grateful manciples . |
| 3 | What I did was to teeter from side to side like a tall mast on a small ship in a heavy sea . |
| 4 | The man 's throat had been cut from ear to ear , soaking his shirt and trousers in blood . |
| 5 | His throat had been cut from ear to ear and his wallet had been filched . ’ |
| 6 | Sulphur candles had been burning for days , leaving the house free of vermin , then the whole place had been painted from top to bottom . |
| 7 | Lij Yasu 's father was the ruler of Wollo , Ras Mikael , who had been converted from Islam to Christianity during the reign of the Emperor John , and had later married Menelik 's elder daughter , Shoaragad . |
| 8 | By the time HMS Beagle reached her final port , Charles Darwin had been elevated from obscurity to the status of reputed naturalist . |
| 9 | It will be recalled that the proceedings had been adjourned from June to August , and about that time of year it appears that the first appellant was offered employment in Italy . |
| 10 | In a related development , a US team which visited Israel to investigate intelligence reports that Patriot missile technology had been transferred from Israel to China [ see p. 38842 ] announced on April 2 that the allegations were " not proven " . |
| 11 | Within two years she had been transferred from teaching to teacher training . |
| 12 | According to Dowie ( 1977 ) , this auto-company sold the Pinto model for a period of six years even though they knew from their own test researchers that the product , which had been rushed from design to production in the short period of twenty-five months instead of the planned forty-three , was dangerous . |
| 13 | Earlier in the month 806 Squadron 's three remaining serviceable Fulmars had been flown from Malta to Egypt via El Adem , each aircraft carrying three aircrew ; the ground party sailed for the same destination in a destroyer . |
| 14 | About 300 political prisoners had been deported from Lisbon to Madeira in the autumn and winter of 1930 , and they were to be important in the trouble which followed . |
| 15 | The spirit had been caught from time to time long before and by the same crossing of Italian sweetness with Netherland technique , for instance in Josquin 's ‘ Pange lingua ’ Mass ( see pp. 1767 ) , but in Palestrina and Victoria it is all-pervading , incantatory , the ideal music of mystical faith , totally purged of human emotion ( except occasionally in their motets ) and of human vanity — except the vanity of performers who ( we learn with a shock from Giovanni Bassano 's Motetti , Madrigali el Canzoni Francese di diversi eccellentissimi Auttori … |
| 16 | Peter went next to the Latymer School which had been evacuated from Hammersmith to High Wycombe . |
| 17 | Despite protests from all sides he did n't halt his labours until the body before him had been opened from navel to throat , and Dowd 's thrashings had ceased . |
| 18 | Uncensored in his own country until the 1968 invasion ( when he was put under an outright ban ) , he discovered his first novel to be published in the West had been rewritten from start to finish by the publisher . |
| 19 | A letter had arrived from Asba Tafari addressed to the head of my escort ; it had been passed from chief to chief . |
| 20 | It had been passed from hand to hand along a chain of trusted men until it came into his own , its message comprehensible only to his eyes . |
| 21 | The maize had been brought from Yugoslavia to Greece in two shiploads in 1986 and then resold as Greek maize by ITCO , a state-owned trading company , after the customs documents had been forged . |
| 22 | It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence . |
| 23 | On July 4 , 1989 , the Army announced that Dominique Prieur , the DGSE agent convicted of taking part in the bombing , had been promoted from captain to major [ for May 1990 UN adjudication on Rainbow Warrior affair see p. 37459 ] . |
| 24 | A journal publishing the new material which had been added from time to time to the machine-readable text . |
| 25 | In January 1986 , the then Lord Chancellor ( Lord Hailsham ) said that the rules had been reviewed from time to time and the judiciary of the Supreme Court and the Circuit bench consulted . |
| 26 | During the trial the court heard that the vessel had been travelling from Libya to the Republic of Ireland with the last of five arms shipments for the IRA , the previous four having got through undetected . |
| 27 | During that 45 minutes , when Arsenal fans must have thought they had been transported from Highbury to Camelot , even Anders Limpar on the bench was forgotten by them . |