Example sentences of "he [verb] be [vb pp] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the £406 million cash he owes was swindled from pension funds by his father before his mysterious death last year . |
| 2 | The trouble is that he is not a natural core forward , which is partly why he has been shifted from lock , but neither has he as yet convinced too many that he has that instinctive reaction in terms of man and/or ball which enables the born flanker to do his stuff . |
| 3 | But his career all but ended that August day in 1967 when the MCC announced he 'd been suspended from bowling suspected of throwing for the rest of the season . |
| 4 | A statement read to the coroner from Richard 's family doctor said he 'd been expelled from Millfield for throwing a brick through a teacher 's window . |
| 5 | Just over a year after he had been dismissed from Oscott ( 1888 ) , Rolfe entered Scots College , Rome , in December 1889 . |
| 6 | The humiliating financial dependence on his parents , a fact of life ever since he had been dismissed from Goupil 's , was being gradually shifted on to Theo , who would soon find himself shouldering the whole burden . |
| 7 | That was the second time he had been saved from drowning . |
| 8 | Wamwere 's lawyers claimed that he had been kidnapped from Uganda . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The operation to which Eliot had referred in his thank-you letter of 22 December was one for hernia , a trouble with which he had been afflicted from birth ( in fact he had a double hernia ) , and for which he was obliged to wear a truss . |
| 11 | All this was news to Rance , for although Burma was not formally independent he had been excluded from decision making since the Attlee — Aung San Agreement had transferred virtually all power to the Council , functioning as a Cabinet . |
| 12 | He had been expelled from grammar school at the age of sixteen , manufactured tie-dye T-shirts , and then worked in the refreshment kiosk in the monkey-house at London Zoo , where he had the distinction of organising the first strike ( of staff , not animals ) in the zoo 's history . |
| 13 | He 's going to see the Colonel tonight to tell him to take a month 's leave after he 's been discharged from hospital . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Apparently he 's been imported from California by Martinez . |