Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [adv prt] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a heavy heart , Robert followed her towards the smooth , mysterious features of the house , whose windows , on this side , he could now see , were blacked out from the inside . |
| 2 | The pictures , together with the museum staff and the two guards accompanying them , were turfed off from the train because the guards lacked permits to carry weapons on Latvian territory . |
| 3 | SIX OF the long-term political prisoners whose release the government announced this week , including Walter Sisulu , the former ANC secretary , were flown up from Cape Town to Johannesburg under guard yesterday morning and transferred to Diepkloof prison in Soweto , according to the South African Press Association . |
| 4 | Urgent medical supplies were flown out from Lyneham yesterday , but for many victims the only hope of a full recovery requires the full faclities which only countries like Britain can provide . |
| 5 | Jayhawk and Defiant were the first , both entered in the January trials and then retired as the newer America and Kanza were flown in from their builders in Rhode Island . |
| 6 | Dairyman Crick 's sleeves were rolled up from Monday to Saturday , and the milkers milked in the fields for coolness . |
| 7 | The ordeal ended when they were picked up from Great Barrier Island , 123 days after they had set out from New Zealand . |
| 8 | Twenty-five days later three survivors , all wounded , were picked up from a raft and taken to Capetown . |
| 9 | Significant orders were picked up from as far afield as Jordan , Panama , Turkey , Malta , Gibraltar and Barbados while new contacts were made in Russia , Bolivia , Poland , Rumania , Bulgaria and Uganda . |
| 10 | They 're then taken upstream to exactly the same stretch of river they were picked up from two weeks ago and released — clearly happy to back in the territory they recognise … until this time next year , when they 'll be collected once again for another short break in their unlikely holiday location , just off the M25 … |
| 11 | Both were picked out from an identity parade by witnesses . |
| 12 | The wounded who were carried in from the attack on the Rebecca lay in the shade under the trees while their hurts were being dressed . |
| 13 | Fortunately , Town were let off from this one . |
| 14 | For one early arrival in Ramsey , where the internees were cordoned off from the rest of the town by barbed wire : |
| 15 | There was confusion , however , over the position of the two central banks , Gosbank and Vneshekonombank ( Bank for foreign economic relations ) , whose responsibilities were transferred back from RSFSR to central control on Aug. 29 , and whose chairmen , respectively Viktor Gerashchenko and Yuri Moskovsky were reinstated , according to the Financial Times of Aug. 30 , partly as a result of pressure from European banks . |
| 16 | Yes I think that over the course of our married life we had a number of moves for various reasons , generally to improve the accommodation , erm as standard of life increased so the desire to have a better house to live in or rather in those days a house was out of the question , we generally had rooms in a house , erm , they , the flat for instance that we were bombed out from was a basement flat , erm according to the estate agents it was a garden flat , erm and it meant that you had access to the front garden and the back garden , but as for being a garden flat it was below the level of the garden in the front and at the back it was on the level with the erm green grass at the back of the house , it was also along side of the trolley bus depot , so there it was considerably noisy , nevertheless it was a self contained flat , the first one we 'd had , no the second one we 'd had and we were perfectly happy there although of course it did have minor difficulties , the fact that you used the front door with people who had flats on the other remaining three floors , but nevertheless it did involve you in a certain amount of community living , you were aware of your neighbours , you had to be very conscious of them and they were very conscious of you . |
| 17 | The panels were built up from small components , enabling work to be subcontracted to a large number of small engineering firms without disrupting heavy engineering production . |
| 18 | Pakistani irregulars invaded Kashmir — then an independent kingdom ruled by a Hindu king — in October 1948 after which its ruler acceded to India and troops were moved in from New Delhi to check the invasion . |
| 19 | The curved members were made up from 2 pieces of 5x2 in. sawn roughly to shape and joined by double mortice and tenon , as was used at the top to join the curved members and the centre glazing bar . |
| 20 | All the outfits on the catwalk were made up from clothes donated to its charity shops . |
| 21 | However during the 1909 Air Display at Squires Gate and again for the steeplechase meetings at the racecourse there , Corporation trams were operated through from Talbot Square , at a fare of 4d . |
| 22 | They were closed down from time to time and checked the day prior to our morning operation . |
| 23 | His eyes bulged from his head , red-veined and ghastly , and his lips were drawn back from his blackened , stump-like teeth , as the full horror of what the Trees were doing impinged on his dull mind . |
| 24 | Moreover , the system of land tenure , wherein the land belongs to the indigenous Fijians and can only be leased to Indo-Fijians ( the descendants of indentured cane workers who were drafted in from India in the early colonial period ) militates against conservation measures because it ensures the political dominance of the former ; and the encouragement of production ensures that such land is seen to be in use , an artefact to maintain internal stability . |
| 25 | It seems probable that all tools were handed on from one generation to the next ; their frequency in Kent may reflect a greater overall wealth and the ability to dispose of such items as grave-goods . |
| 26 | It was in fact , a closed shop , and those working practices and skills were handed down from mother to daughter . |
| 27 | A child , named Lewis after his father , was born to Goram and his wife 18 months ago , and added another stabilising dimension to the life of a player now consumed by the need to make the most of the gifts that were handed down from father to son . |
| 28 | The beds were of loose straw , and the debtors were locked up from six in the evening to nine the next morning . |
| 29 | Reinforcements were called in from the Surrey , Kent , and Sussex forces . |
| 30 | But reinforcements were called in from nearby Moorland prison — and the escape was foiled . |