Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was n't afraid of Elizabeth but I was frightened of her mother and I was glad the nuns were leading us away from the road where she lived . |
| 2 | This was my case , dusted down from Granny 's attic when they were taking me away from the farm . |
| 3 | We telephoned from our mobile to theirs — probably at a combined speed of 100mph going away from each other — and it was indeed us who were hotfooting it away from the airport . |
| 4 | In a flash he was pushing her away from the path they were making and into the cover of the undergrowth . |
| 5 | In a moment he had gripped her hand in his and was pulling her away from the bale on which she had been resting . |
| 6 | She had not killed him , she was leading him away from the open mouth of the cave and towards the distant city . |
| 7 | Anyway , most of these girls grew out of these crushes — soon the great problem was to keep them away from the Grammar School boys at the other end of the road . |
| 8 | ‘ But I thought the whole idea was to keep it away from the public ? |
| 9 | The prey was distancing itself fast from the hunters ; the scent , as Myeloski knew , was still cold and getting colder . |