Example sentences of "[noun] was [adv] [v-ing] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the difference was like moving from purgatory into heaven really , because er in the Nissan hut I had one tap of cold water , that 's all , every bit of water had to be heated on a gas stove , and every bit of water for a bath had to be heated in an old fashioned er boiler in which you lit the fire under and of course when you came here we had a ni an electric cooker , er straight away |
| 2 | With a tragic stroke of luck that set venereology back many decades , the patient from whom he collected the pus was also suffering from syphilis , and Hunter went on to develop both gonorrhoea and syphilis . |
| 3 | This landlord was clearly profiting from involvement in the market in basic foodstuffs : a market which stray references in contemporary chronicles and letters show to have been lively in the Seine basin during the ninth century . |
| 4 | Moreover , Europe was still recovering from wartime devastation , and had achieved neither political coherence nor a sound enough military/ industrial base to provide a viable alternative to the North American connection . |
| 5 | Alina looked out to where the wagon was already disappearing from sight ; and she nodded , barely perceptibly . |
| 6 | And so when Lacuna was screaming instructions to the androids , and the Doctor was almost hopping from foot to foot with anxiety , and the pale young man and the little girl were staring open-mouthed at the screens , Britta omitted to speak . |
| 7 | Such counsel was sadly missing from Monitor 's ( 10 March . |
| 8 | Bardot was still recovering from shock after narrowly missing being shot earlier this year by hunters killing her pets . |
| 9 | The back of the blue van was just vanishing from view . |