Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone gathered together in the room next to our barrack room for meals , which were brought over from the main kitchens somewhere else in the citadel . |
| 2 | And seven new Peugeot cars were driven off from the Central African Motor Services : two were never found . |
| 3 | Immediately in front of him , Bigwig and Dandelion were staring out from the sheer edge of a high bank , and below the bank ran a stream . |
| 4 | Since they were cut off from the mainstream anyway , both sexually and socially , they had nothing to lose by outrageousness in their clothes ’ . |
| 5 | If the plagioclase concentration is still less than critical for plagioclase alone , then the plagioclase would be mixed up into the ‘ clear layer ’ in the same way that in the experiments fine particles were swept up from the interfacial zone into the clear layer . |
| 6 | Ron Canny , 45 , was crouching in a ditch on one side of a field near Osage , Iowa , when about seven deer were flushed out from the other side of the field . |
| 7 | sales that were left over from the open show , three pound thirty fourteen pound ten for the collection , now that is as you see , that is over from last year last year the table show so we actually have double the number of entries on the bench this year which is a healthy sign |
| 8 | Ashore the troops were commanded by Colonel John Durnford-Slater , the Commanding Officer of 3 Commando , who did most of the detailed planning for the raiding force which was made up from the entire 3 Commando , reinforced by two Troops from ‘ No.2 ’ with additional Royal Engineers from ‘ No.6 ’ , Royal Army Medical Corps ( RAMC ) personnel from ‘ No.4 ’ , intelligence officers from the War Office , and a Press Unit . |
| 9 | They took the corner in a skidding turn , and rocketed into the dark mouth of the alley only a few yards ahead of the second police car , which was racing up from the opposite direction . |
| 10 | He was peering down from the leaning tower of Pisa like Galileo testing his theory of gravity . |
| 11 | There was one obvious difference : she was coming through from the Other Side . |
| 12 | Kevin Price gave us a glimpse of what was to follow with a clever break and when the ball was set up from the resulting ruck , Paul Flood was equally successful with a drop goal . |
| 13 | I was travelling up from the English coast on my way to London to arrange the final leg of my journey home . |
| 14 | In 1979 an operational researcher was brought in from the academic world to look at the use being made of Exminster . |
| 15 | In the foreground another smaller flock was taking off from the little lake on the south side . |
| 16 | Each table was cut off from the next by screens of greenery ; even so , from where he sat he had a view of what was happening at other tables and on other levels . |
| 17 | After a year or so the rope was taken up from the lower floors and wound on to a cleat on the top storey . |
| 18 | That monstrous bombard Mons Meg was heaved over from the Low Countries to Scotland . |