Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] [be] [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court was told he had also been expelled from the Air Training Corps , ‘ something he held very dear ’ . |
| 2 | Similarly , in the report of ‘ a sex beast nicknamed ‘ The Acne Kid ’ ’ ( Star ) , who boasted to the victim that he had just been freed from prison and said : ‘ I 've served time for rape before ’ , speculation about this possible link was scotched quickly . |
| 3 | Lips tight , fists clenched , eyes narrow , breath held , back straight , stomach in , chest out , shoulders back , Steven Grout stamped away from the depot he had just been fired from , away from their stupid job and those awful people . |
| 4 | He had just been de-mobbed from the Army , intended to go up to Oxford to work for his Doctorate in the autumn , and was looking for a house for his mother who had recently been divorced . |
| 5 | There were already rumors that the new astronomy was incompatible with Scripture , and he had already been denounced from the pulpit . |
| 6 | He had once been suspended from school for a month . |
| 7 | He told me that he had recently been sacked from his job as a long-distance lorry driver for refusing to drive a defective and dangerous vehicle . |
| 8 | When he arrived at Balliol College in 1792 , he had recently been expelled from Westminster School for publishing an essay condemning flogging , and his radical temperament developed rapidly during his Oxford years . |
| 9 | This information made Charles feel disproportionately cheerful , as though he had suddenly been reprieved from something . |