Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pers pn] from [art] [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 | Ginny could only suppose that Ralph thought he was protecting her from a possible nuisance . |
| 5 | Josey was watching her from the other side of the fireplace . |
| 6 | 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 . |