Example sentences of "was [vb pp] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In April 1945 , while the division was stationed near Graz under the command of the SS Gen Freytag , it was joined from Berlin by Gen Pavel Shandruk , President of the German-sponsored Ukrainian National Committee and Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian National Army ( of which the 1st Ukrainian Division was the most important component ) . |
| 2 | Named after the lion , Singapore was plucked from obscurity by the British , who were keen to develop the city-state as a trading port . |
| 3 | After the brief administration of Sosuke Uno , Kaifu was plucked from obscurity in order to act as caretaker Prime Minister until such time as the Recruit scandal had receded . |
| 4 | In the face of the administration 's intense opposition , it cut $900 million from the amount requested by Bush , allocating $3,500 million for SDI , and also insisting that the emphasis of the programme was altered from research into space-based interceptors ( the " brilliant pebbles " concept ) to ground-based rockets and lasers . |
| 5 | Allott , also 35 , was recalled from holiday in Wales to discover his fate , but it could hardly have been a surprise as he has not regularly figured in Lancashire 's games this season . |
| 6 | In 1798 Murdock was recalled from Cornwall to the Soho Works . |
| 7 | The founding of the White Lions dates back to the time of the bitter civil war with the Dark Elves when Caledor the First was recalled from hunting in Chrace to become the new Phoenix King . |
| 8 | UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher called the execution " an act of barbarism " , and the British ambassador was recalled from Iraq for consultations ; planned ministerial and trade visits were cancelled and Iraqi students attending Ministry of Defence training courses in the UK were sent home . |
| 9 | It was withdrawn from BR in 1987 , its last depot being Gateshead . |
| 10 | Opren was withdrawn from sale by the company , Dista Products , last August following the deaths of more than 50 old people who had taken the drug . |
| 11 | Ostrovsky had left Israel for Canada , his birthplace , in 1986 when he was dismissed from Mossad after working for them for some 17 months . |
| 12 | The Chief Constable of Brighton was dismissed from office by the Brighton Watch Committee without an adequate hearing . |
| 13 | Despite his popularity with Rangers fans , the English midfield hardman , Graham Roberts , was banished from Ibrox after a dressing room argument with Souness . |
| 14 | She was banished from Massachussetts for her efforts and moved to Rhode Island with her husband an large family of children . |
| 15 | It should also be credited with the fact that within a few years very little more was heard from politicians about the importance of the much-vaunted ‘ British independent nuclear deterrent ’ against which CND had originally campaigned . |
| 16 | Mr Brooke said Sinn Fein , the political wing of the IRA , was debarred from participation by its support for violence . |
| 17 | However , he was prevented from standing on Oct. 19 , when the Constitutional Court upheld the Supreme Court 's Oct. 12 ruling that anyone who had been the author or beneficiary of a military coup was debarred from participation in elections under Article 186 of the 1986 Constitution . |
| 18 | You may have heard the horrific tale of the small boy who was painted from head to toe with a metallic-based substance for a carnival and who consequently died of respiratory failure . |
| 19 | She was painted from head to foot in red . |
| 20 | Whereupon he opened a huge cupboard which was filled from top to bottom with homemade jams , marmalades , chutneys , and pickles — some of which were five years old ! |
| 21 | A wealthy man , without flying experience , was flown from London to Paris by his pilot . |
| 22 | He was flown from Edinburgh to Manchester airport before being taken for a tearful re-union with his mother 's parents . |
| 23 | Well I , well er I came back to Britain er I , I was er liberated by General Patton in a , a small place called Erfurt I was flown from Erfurt into Cherbourg , and from Cherbourg into a small place called Amersham which was a reception station for prisoners of war , where we were treated er on entering the camp we were handed a telegram . |
| 24 | Valerio Viccei , 37 , who is thought to have got away with £26 million from the daring robbery , was flown from Heathrow to Rome where he faces questioning over 50 unsolved crimes . |
| 25 | Since 1945 , when it was annexed from Germany by the Soviet Union , it has been Kaliningrad . |
| 26 | The Davidson Room was stacked from ceiling with Things Past and Present . |
| 27 | The new Health Secretary is married to fellow MP Peter Bottomley , who was sacked from office by Mrs Thatcher . |
| 28 | Whether ground was distinguished from sky in any other way than by being outlined against it the evidence so far cited does not tell us , but probably some trees and flowers were shown on it , and it may have had something in the nature of shading . |
| 29 | The case was distinguished from Percival v. |
| 30 | She 'd die if she was parted from Ricky for five minutes . |