Example sentences of "had [be] lift from " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked at Pauline Simonescu , and felt a great and total relief , as if a burden of enormous weight had been lifted from his shoulders . |
| 2 | It was only to Pam that I admitted to feeling guilty and ashamed of the wave of relief I felt at her funeral , as though a weight had been lifted from my shoulders . |
| 3 | In the Rohan Hours , produced for Yolande of Aragon between c.1418–25 and now in the Bibliothèque Nationale , Paris , the shroud is shown as a loose sheet , almost as if the dead man had been lifted from his bed and placed into his coffin ; no attempt has been made to mould the cloth about the body or to position the limbs . |
| 4 | They had apparently felt as if a burden had been lifted from them and why tempt fate by attempting to get her back ? |
| 5 | He had been lifted from a detention cell and given the job of English teacher because the Colonel liked a boy who could smile into the face of an interrogator who wielded a rubber truncheon . |
| 6 | With her schooldays behind her , Diana felt as if some great weight had been lifted from her shoulders . |
| 7 | Johnson later claimed that over 12 million Americans had been lifted from the poverty trap . |
| 8 | It was as if a great burden had been lifted from the shoulders of the people . |
| 9 | He looked as though he 'd lost twenty years , as though a ten-ton weight had been lifted from his shoulders . |