Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] [adv prt] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Raoul Walsh was brought over from the US to direct O.H.M.S . |
| 2 | Tory Peter Jones said it was time South Africa was brought in from the cold . |
| 3 | That monstrous bombard Mons Meg was heaved over from the Low Countries to Scotland . |
| 4 | But Seb was struggling up from the table . |
| 5 | The seven which are relevant to Christ 's manhood are : belief in the Incarnation and Virgin birth ; that in Jesus God and man are united , begotten by God , born of Mary ; belief in " Cristes passion " that after Christ was taken down from the cross dead ( the deposition ) , he liberated those believers subject to death before he was born , a process known as the Harrowing of Hell ; that though he suffered mortality , he rose from the dead through the strength of God , and made this possible for all men ; that he ascended into heaven and was crowned higher than the angels ; that he will come at the end of time to judge the world and this will be the end of the era of redemption : These two sets of seven points about the Godhead and Christ delineate beliefs about the nature of life subject to a process of sickness and death but also filled with the potential for healing realised definitively in the life of Christ . |
| 6 | In 1988 Mr Kevin Gavaghan was brought in from the Burton Group , a British clothes retailer , to be the bank 's marketing director . |
| 7 | As Roberto was coming down from the top of his back-swing , the spectators leaned forward on to the fencing causing a crack like thunder . |
| 8 | As soon as the election was completed and announced in the words " St Peter elects Lothar pope " , three doves flew into the place where the cardinals were assembled and when Lothar was singled out from the others the whitest of them settled on his right shoulder . |
| 9 | They had got into conversation one evening when Ianthe was coming back from the library where she worked , and it had reassured her — coming as a stranger to this rather doubtful neighbourhood — to meet somebody whom her mother would have described as a ‘ gentlewoman ’ . |