Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | President Roh Tae Woo announced on Sept. 18 that he was resigning from the Democratic Liberal Party ( DLP ) , the ruling political grouping which he had led until August 1992 [ see p. 39050 ] , and within which he currently held the post of honorary president . |
| 2 | He was smarting from the clerical opposition that had been marshaled against his nonsectarian charter for Cornell University . |
| 3 | He was led from the neutral entrance hall by a quiet , equally neutral young man , who might have been a civil servant , into a room in which the walls carried friezes that depicted the perversions which the brothel traded in . |
| 4 | Alexander had to argue with the authorities before they would let him compete , but he convinced them that he was descended from the royal house of Argos . |
| 5 | It was he , after all , who was the master of the Art , and now that Louisa had taken upon herself the task of preparing his way he was freed from the immediate pressure of time . |
| 6 | Officers of merchant ships were particularly vulnerable if they did not have in their possession a written protection from impressment issued by the Admiralty , and David Scott was enabled to oblige both Provost Watt of Forfar and several influential merchants of Dundee by securing the freedom of Peter Brown , the mate of the ship John and Nancy of Dundee , though in this case the Dundee magistrates had to provide an able seaman as a replacement for Brown before he was freed from the pressing tender . |
| 7 | Charles E. ( Buddy ) Roemer , the Governor of Louisiana , announced on March 11 that he was defecting from the Democratic to the Republican Party . |
| 8 | He was recalled from the international wilderness last March to play against Czechoslovakia . |
| 9 | The General had no success in winning over the Big Three to his concept of a decentralized Germany , and he was excluded from the critical summits where Germany 's future was discussed . |
| 10 | When help finally arrived he was released from the big baler his right leg was nearly severed from his body . |
| 11 | He could touch — he could caress — Meh'Lindi in this murderous alien guise like someone stroking a kitten , as though he was absolved from the normal punctilios of duty and common sense . |
| 12 | And William began to run from the approaching cart , which was piled high with the bodies of the plague victims , and as he ran the streets became the familiar streets of his childhood and he knew that all the time he was running from the terrible cart he was getting closer and closer to the dark house by the railway embankment with its shuttered windows and its locked door , and that this was more terrible to him than anything in his history books . |
| 13 | Lugard was later to develop a more elaborate reconciliation of the moral with the amoral aspects of imperialism in The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa , written after he was removed from the daily turmoil of administration and in retirement in England . |
| 14 | On January 25th , 1939 , the day Barcelona fell to Franco , he was expelled from the Labour Party . |
| 15 | In March 1940 he was expelled from the Labour Party , and the University Labour Federation , which represented students of Labour sympathies , was disaffiliated for the same reason . |
| 16 | In 1979 he was expelled from the National Assembly and was subsequently banned from political activity . |
| 17 | When he was fetched from the Common Room his walk had a touch of spring , and he came into Pumfrey 's presence a shade more jauntily than would have been the case if he had been interviewed earlier . |
| 18 | He chose the time carefully , lurked and caught Dersingham as he was coming from the stable yard after having driven himself out . |
| 19 | Before that he was suspended from the national team for a year after a clash with coach Henri Michel , punished for fighting with team-mates at Auxerre and Montpelier and fined for throwing his shirt to the ground at Marseille when substituted . |
| 20 | As the season of goodwill got into full swing he was discharged from the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport yesterday . |