Example sentences of "had [been] [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Friday , 18th February , 1859 , a week after Tite 's question to Manners , Hall raised the subject of Scott 's appointment again , saying that under the rules of the House he had been debarred from saying more before . |
| 2 | Garbo , Garland , Gardner , Garson and Gable were there — and that was just the Gs — but the old grey Mayer was n't what he used to be , and he had been ousted from MGM by the time Nicholson arrived as a messenger boy . |
| 3 | Queen Anne 's former chief minister , Henry St John , Viscount Bolingbroke , who had been ousted from office by a Whig on George I 's accession , arrived in Paris that spring , to be followed in August by another influential figure , James Butler , Duke of Ormonde , who had succeeded Marlborough as Captain-General and had contemplated leading a military rebellion against the new king . |
| 4 | At least , one may take this assumption from the terms which the French emissary Paul Mus , after an arduous journey , presented to Ho in May 1947 and which required what amounted to a conditional surrender ; and in any case now that the Communist Party had been ousted from the French government there was no longer the same effective demand in France for a negotiated settlement . |
| 5 | Bosch , who had moderated his left-wing image to present himself as the defender of the small and medium businessman in the face of state bureaucracy and corruption , still retained the appeal of the reformer who had been ousted from office by the military in 1963 and by the invasion of US troops in 1965 . |
| 6 | In the March 1991 legislative elections Tahoeraa Huiraatira — the opposition party led by Flosse which had been ousted from government in December 1987 , after controlling the territory 's government since March 1982 — captured 18 of the 41 seats in the Territorial Assembly . |
| 7 | Dinner had been cleared from the dining room , which looked self-conscious and redundant , as dining rooms do when not in use . |
| 8 | Most of the coconut palms had been cleared from the twenty-acre site , and the dense vegetation had been cut back to deepen the crescent-shaped beach where the six low-level Mediterranean accommodation blocks were to be built , each housing twenty rooms , varying in size and design but all with huge covered terraces overhanging the beach with uninterrupted sea views . |
| 9 | The rats had been cleared from the lab when the Leutnant returned with a message for Dr Karnstein . |
| 10 | The wet plaster smell and the white dust on the cobbles underfoot indicated that rubble had been cleared from the yard only a short time before . |
| 11 | Then in run number six , taken towards the end of January , the ratio hit 3.5 ; a very dramatic outburst of neutrons had been detected from the cell . |
| 12 | Wamwere 's lawyers claimed that he had been kidnapped from Uganda . |
| 13 | It naturally shares much with its literary cousin , Hebrew poetry , on which Leonard had been raised from his earliest days . |
| 14 | By the end of 1990 , £15,000 had been raised from the sale of the prints for the Appeal with more to come when the project is finished . |
| 15 | By the end of 1990 £50,000 had been raised from the sales of the book and donated to the ‘ Reach for the Sky ’ Appeal . |
| 16 | In all , some £24 billion had been raised from sales by the end of 1988 . |
| 17 | A staggering £300,000 had been raised from local people and businesses , some of it in the form of covenants . |
| 18 | Furthermore , almost all of this debt had been raised from British creditors . |
| 19 | Although regular army numbers had been increased from 10,500 to 11,000 in November [ see p. 38588 ] , these 500 additional troops had in fact returned to England before Christmas ; the Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Brooke conceded on Jan. 9 that " you might take the view with hindsight that a different decision could have been taken " . |
| 20 | ‘ Wires had been ripped from the wall and deliberately attached to metal furniture in the barricades , ’ he said . |
| 21 | His shirt had been ripped from his body and there were deep cuts across his back and under his arms . |
| 22 | At nights , particularly , she had felt loneliness so great it was as if a hole had been torn in her soul , something irreplaceable had been ripped from her . |
| 23 | There had been a struggle , buttons had been ripped from the waistcoat , which was open , and a silver pocket watch dangled from its silver chain . |
| 24 | Broken glass and china lay everywhere , littered across the torn remains of the carpet which had been ripped from the stairs . |
| 25 | Her voice was shaking as she told me that on returning from the cinema a couple of weeks earlier she had been grabbed from behind , dragged into an alley and viciously raped at knifepoint . |
| 26 | By the 14th century there was a mill in the vicinity , then called Slaughter Mill , and by the 18th century , this had been separated from the manorial estate . |
| 27 | Daughter of King Jerome , former ruler of Westphalia during the First Empire , Mathilde had eventually married Count Anatole Demidov , a Russian multi-millionaire whose morals and behaviour were such ( he frequently beat her ) that she had been separated from him . |
| 28 | Once both cylinder banks had been separated from the crankcase , the 12 pistons were drawn from the liners and boiled to free off the rings and gudgeon pins prior to their removal . |
| 29 | In each case the siblings concerned had been separated from each other when they were babies . |
| 30 | Cricket had been separated from the real world , taken away from daily life . ’ |