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 . |