Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [pron] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the centre of the piece was a carving of a shoemaker resisting four shaggy devils who were dragging him from the embraces of what at first Athelstan thought was a young lady but , on looking closer , -realised that with his tail and close-cropped hair , it was a depiction of a male prostitute . |
| 2 | ‘ And you were fighting me from the moment we met again . ’ |
| 3 | I had suffered from these cramps four years before and in Tokyo they were bothering me from the start . |
| 4 | It was frightening to walk through the Barkhor , where Chinese soldiers with machineguns were watching us from the roofs . |
| 5 | She turned her back on him , praying that he would not touch her , her throat so tight now with tears that it seemed to be closing , her chest feeling as if frantic hands were hammering it from the inside , bursting it — in several raw , sore places — wide open . |
| 6 | As they returned to Swinbrook on Grye , the gipsy horse , the trees of Wychwood closed in about them and Carrie imagined the sadly diminished yet still proud forest was protecting them from the rest of the world . |
| 7 | Oh , I was writing it from the board actually . |
| 8 | I dreamt that my mother was calling me from the bottom of a deep , deep well . |
| 9 | For all the tact of his dealings with the army , his words and policies in the summer of 1958 plainly showed that de Gaulle was disassociating himself from the ideology of integration — i.e. integration of Algeria into France — that many officers favoured . |
| 10 | She was lowering herself from the tip-toe that she needed to look over the panelled backing of the window display when something else caught her eye , further down the road . |
| 11 | Later I thought it through and decided a big part of it was that , although he was coining it from the teds , I think he felt he was seen — by his peers — as an artistic cretin . |
| 12 | Someone was watching them from the top of the stairs . |
| 13 | Kersey was briefing himself from the paperwork so far . |
| 14 | Sue was beckoning her from the till . |
| 15 | Something too fierce was attacking her from the inside . |
| 16 | She was clocking me from the corner of one bleary eye . |