Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] [pron] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She also reveals how the actor who tried to make the world a better place was to rescue her from the brink again . |
| 2 | ‘ My first reaction was to get someone from the British Transport Police , but the door of their office was locked . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It must have seemed to them that Marian and Allen had perished in the flames and their own immediate concern was to remove themselves from the danger of the roof falling in on their heads and from the certain consequence that so conspicuous a fire in the night would be seen by the outlaws and would sooner or later bring them to the scene . |
| 6 | Josey was watching her from the other side of the fireplace . |
| 7 | Kersey was briefing himself from the paperwork so far . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I dreamt that my mother was calling me from the bottom of a deep , deep well . |