Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And I was taught from an early age that you do n't turn your back on those kind of responsibilities . ’ |
| 2 | My parents always thought I was dealing from a different deck . |
| 3 | I was awakened from a deep sleep at about 5 a.m. by a bump , alongside , the roar of engines and much shouting . |
| 4 | I was roused from a deep sleep feeling dry in the mouth and hungover . |
| 5 | My first political awareness of oppression was when I was discharged from the nursing corps of the army over lesbianism . |
| 6 | ‘ Is n't it true that during the Moro affair you were transferred from the active list of the Rome Questura to a desk job in the Ministry following a disciplinary inquiry ? |
| 7 | Michelle Dixon had claimed she was sacked from the massive Trees Park Village home in Middleton St George near Darlington after expressing concern over allegations of mice and cockroaches on the premises . |
| 8 | At first , especially when she divulged that she was recovering from a nervous breakdown , I assumed that she merely desired a consoling chat with her sister 's old tutor . ’ |
| 9 | Whenever Joanne completed a task requested by one or other parent without complaint she was rewarded from the same reward ‘ menu ’ . |
| 10 | That he let her go , and that she was free of him so easily was a great relief , but she was shaken from the unwanted experience , and as he swiftly went on his way she turned round — but only to collide with someone else . |
| 11 | She was eating from an extra large bag of potato crisps and digging the stuff out in handfuls . |
| 12 | Theda demanded , indignation warring with the hurt she was experiencing from the dreadful blow that had been dealt her , the vicious attack to which she had been subjected . |
| 13 | One day , one of the mares cut her leg , and as it required stitching she was separated from the other horses and shut in a stable without more ado . |
| 14 | Gathering her back into his arms , he unclipped the safety line on her lifejacket and lifted her on to the saloon settee where she was protected from the surging water by his BMW . |
| 15 | She was rescued from the burning building by a neighbour . |
| 16 | The woman looked as if she was suffering from a terminal liver disease . |
| 17 | She was suffering from a stiff neck which gave her pain whenever she turned her head . |
| 18 | Stella could n't tell whether she was acting or not — she looked dreadful , as if she was suffering from the worst sort of headache , and yet she kept watching herself in the glass , turning her face this way and that , peering forward to follow the track of a tear rolling down her cheek . |
| 19 | She was transformed from the young trollop I remembered to the middle-aged reader of Trollope she had always wanted to be . |
| 20 | The next time he saw her she was emerging from the very lift he was waiting for . |
| 21 | Most of the subsequent writing on Mary Queen of Scots has stressed the immense , even intolerable burden placed on the shoulders of this young and carefully nurtured girl , when at the age of eighteen she was driven from the civilized country of France , where she had lived since she was five , to the backward and lawless kingdom of Scotland . |
| 22 | Although we both knew that we were acting from the best possible motives , I argued , other people were always ready to place a malicious interpretation on their neighbours ' doings and it might therefore be better to wait before breaking the news . |
| 23 | He replies : ’ we were formed from the old Liberal Prty and the SDP . |
| 24 | It was only through my presence of mind that we were saved from a frightful scandal . ’ |
| 25 | laughter so that by the time we came to do the five practical ev exercises you know everybody was in a very relaxed and jolly mood but I think that 's was it 's about but from the results that we were getting from the practical exercises clearly what he said had taken root you know roll key words , roll them around in your mind er try running through letters of the alphabet to match up with your key word chains and you know if if if the word is ball try roll see if you can get it to rhyme and ultimately the creme de la creme is if you can actually get the title of a song or |
| 26 | We were screened from the wild birds as we hurried along behind high earth banks planted with willow . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , we felt we were missing something , that we were excluded from a wider world . ’ |
| 28 | We happen to lie in the line of sight so far as Algol is concerned ( or nearly so ) ; if we were observing from a different vantage point there would be no eclipses , and Algol would shine steadily . |
| 29 | A second reason is perhaps that we have not obtained many of the much-trumpeted benefits that we were promised from the original Common Market . |
| 30 | The decision to head for Etive had been a late one , after we were repelled from a planned attack on Ardgour 's Garbh Bheinn by a combination of midges and a deer stalking manager . |