Example sentences of "she was [vb pp] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 She was transferred from home to a private rehabilitation centre , but she was not happy there because she had little privacy , and her family could not travel to see her every day .
2 She 'd die if she was parted from Ricky for five minutes .
3 She was banished from Massachussetts for her efforts and moved to Rhode Island with her husband an large family of children .
4 She was painted from head to foot in red .
5 She was expelled from school for being a ‘ bad influence ’ , joined a heavy metal band and at one stage worked as a Bunny Girl for her father 's biggest rival , Playboy chief Hugh Heffner .
6 Having a background in the arts — she was poached from McMaster in his old fiefdom at Welsh National Opera — Baker is well aware that selling a festival does not approximate to shifting soap powder .
7 She was swathed from neck to knee in what appeared to be a ‘ coat ’ of many colours .
8 She was passed from hand to hand .
9 Rose was unable to do much when she was discharged from hospital after four months , but she assumed she would recover all of a sudden , because her illness had come on so suddenly .
10 She was discharged from hospital within a week and by that time , could carry out the majority of her normal activities .
11 A 30-yearold ex-stockbroker , she was recruited from Oxford by a merchant bank in the early 1980s , but soon realised the City was not the place it had been .
12 She was wrapped from head to foot in an old-fashioned opera cloak , of blue velvet .
13 She was banned from politics between 1964 and 1981 , and spent 10 of these years under house arrest .
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