Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [pron] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , I was writing it from the board actually . |
| 2 | Someone was watching them from the top of the stairs . |
| 3 | He reported success with Yellow-root ( i.e. Hydrastis canadensis ) as it had ‘ flowered and ripened seeds in our garden , two years past , from some roots which were sent me from the inland parts of your country . |
| 4 | In the centre of the piece was a carving of a shoemaker resisting four shaggy devils who were dragging him from the embraces of what at first Athelstan thought was a young lady but , on looking closer , -realised that with his tail and close-cropped hair , it was a depiction of a male prostitute . |
| 5 | ‘ And you were fighting me from the moment we met again . ’ |
| 6 | She was to collect it from the church house in the morning . ’ |
| 7 | She was clocking me from the corner of one bleary eye . |
| 8 | She was lowering herself from the tip-toe that she needed to look over the panelled backing of the window display when something else caught her eye , further down the road . |
| 9 | I had suffered from these cramps four years before and in Tokyo they were bothering me from the start . |
| 10 | She was unshackled and they were dragging her from the only remaining hut . |
| 11 | It was believed someone from the Academy was helping Mann with the finance and distribution of the drugs . |
| 12 | Oh it was bought it from the Christmas , two ninety nine from . |
| 13 | As Woodroffe recounts , he was watching it from the opposite bank of the narrow stream and was so close that he was worried the vole would hear his receiver pulsing loudly . |
| 14 | He was seeing it all so differently from Gabriel ; he was seeing it from the other side of the mirror . |
| 15 | Later I thought it through and decided a big part of it was that , although he was coining it from the teds , I think he felt he was seen — by his peers — as an artistic cretin . |