Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was unshackled and they were dragging her from the only remaining hut . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He was seeing it all so differently from Gabriel ; he was seeing it from the other side of the mirror . |
| 4 | To cling to a Polish identity was to exclude oneself from the German monopoly on higher education and from all but menial employment in industry ; given the rapid depopulation of the countryside it was also to insist on the right to become and remain part of a backward , ignorant , illiterate , inward-looking agrarian people , stuck in a rural backwater with no access to the outside world , with scant interest from that world and little hope of progress . |
| 5 | ‘ My first reaction was to get someone from the British Transport Police , but the door of their office was locked . |
| 6 | Josey was watching her from the other side of the fireplace . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Her old father was extricating himself from the front seat slowly , painfully , gasping , as though he had to push open a heavy coffin lid in order to rise from the dead . |