Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] from [indef pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tolkien shrank from that last , and recorded ( UT , p. 385 ) a rival theory that the orcs were bred from something like the Drúedain , the pûkel-men . |
| 2 | I 've never seen anything like it before , ’ and she was looking from one to the other , wondering which one it was meant to fit , when Miss Rene startled her by saying , ‘ Well , get your coat and things off and try it on . ’ |
| 3 | Ward was looking from one to the other . |
| 4 | 11 To there friends who knew her , her self-assertion was born from nothing but a necessary and confident determination to succeed in an area where women rarely rose to prominence . |
| 5 | She did n't know any of the names ; she smiled and shook hands and was passed from one to the other like a parcel . |