Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] from [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In each case the siblings concerned had been separated from each other when they were babies . |
| 2 | The thirteen children who developed schizophrenia could be characterised by the following factors : their birth had been relatively difficult ( longer and more complicated than average ) ; most of them had been separated from both parents and many placed in children 's homes at a young age ; they posed a disciplinary problem to their teachers ; and some years earlier they had had a rapid autonomic nervous system ( ANS ) recovery rate . |
| 3 | A sepoy with a green turban had had his spine shattered by The Spirit of Science ; others had been struck down by teaspoons , by fish-knives , by marbles ; an unfortunate subadar had been plucked from this world by the silver sugar-tongs embedded in his brain . |
| 4 | He had been called from this office to so many bodies , in such different settings , such different states of dissolution , old , young , pathetic , horrifying , having in common only the one fact , that they were violently dead and by another 's hand . |
| 5 | Among these well-tended plots , with their laden fruit trees , it was out of place and ill at ease ; as though it had been transplanted from another age or a backward planet . |
| 6 | Balbinder , who had been excluded from all deliberations about his future , had not seen his new school yet . |
| 7 | Immediately prior to his announcement , García had been suspended from all party activity for two years by the PSOE leadership . |
| 8 | Halifax and Frizingley had been invaded from all directions , the streets sprouting Chartist placards like weeds from every chink in the cobbles , demanding what John-William himself had once demanded . |
| 9 | He was arrested three weeks later in possession of a giro cheque which had been stolen from another woman mugged in nearby Old Kent Road . |
| 10 | If the animal had been stolen from another district , and its owner did not as a result claim it , thieves could buy the fully-documented animal for a nominal sum . |
| 11 | The population had been drawn from many countries with as many as 20 different nationalities in a school . |
| 12 | Little problem had been expected from that workforce : it was young , unorganized and naive . |
| 13 | With the laity , the clergy suffered from the levying of purveyances in the early years of the war , even though by the statute of Westminster of 1275 , confirmed in 1309 and 1316 , they had been exempted from this obligation . |
| 14 | The Arcadia colony had been controlled from this space station since the first landing . |
| 15 | So this two bedroomed apartment in a hotel complex had been borrowed from some golfing friend of Mike 's , and here she was to stay until Mike could get her back home to London . |