Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [verb] from [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew that when at last I was demobilised from the Waaf I would have to return to my peacetime occupation as a secretary in London , for the simple reason that my employers had been paying me my full salary all the time I had been in the Forces , that is , making up the difference between my Waaf pay and what I would have been earning with them . |
| 2 | I was called from the incident room by the desk sergeant who recognised her . |
| 3 | ‘ I was n't skulking , I was sheltering from the rain . |
| 4 | I was watching from a deck chair by the pool of my health club , on the top floor of a highrise that provided a panoramic view of all Paris . |
| 5 | I was watching from the kitchen window , as he went up to her , and , supposing that no one else could see him , kissed her . |
| 6 | The next morning I was a day older , no wiser and put in a bad mood right from the off because I was dragged from the Land of Nod kicking and screaming ( well , grunting and stumbling actually ) by the Celtic Twilight hammering on my door . |
| 7 | The drop down from Meall Corranaich and back up to Beinn Ghlas was a great deal more substantial than I would have wished at this point in the walk , keeping in mind that I was hallucinating from the effort of the chase and the subsequent lack of oxygen managing to get anywhere near my lungs via a mouth full of clenched teeth . |
| 8 | I was dismissed from the library , but with a good reference and I was taken on the staff of the local Employment Exchange to ‘ sign on ’ the others . |
| 9 | ( I met the great sculptor once , you know , when I was hiding from the Doge of Venice 's assassins . |
| 10 | I was bleeding from a laceration on my scalp and was so drunk that I had no recollection of what had happened ; a Sergeant quizzed me closely and seeing that I was incapable of speech , took me downstairs and put me into an ambulance . |
| 11 | Anyway , in what seems the distant past of the late Seventies , when I was reporting from The Gnoll , they were not much good , not many players from Neath won caps and , once the new Welsh Challenge Cup had been won in 1972 , an utterly barren decade ensued . |
| 12 | I was taken from the cellar in Beirut and enjoyed the warmth of the sun on my skin for the first time in a thousand days . |
| 13 | Us kids were highly amused at all this , but I was distracted from the fun by Frankie who suggested that we gather up the bottles and hide them in the washhouse before they all got broken . |
| 14 | I was returning from a hospital where I had been visiting someone , and I was last in a bus queue . |
| 15 | I was lowered from the stance to lie amongst the boulders and heather whingeing at my discomfort and misfortune as the crag was smothered by a swarm of conscientious drones climbing routes that I wanted to do . |
| 16 | I was coming from the road , I met Lil . |
| 17 | I was suffering from a cold , the first for years — in fact I can not recall the last time I had a cold — and because the weather was nice the village was extremely busy with tourists and lots of traffic and people knocking on my door . |
| 18 | ‘ I was suffering from a virus and was n't really fit , so all things considered I had to be happy with my performance , ’ he said . |
| 19 | Just prior to this I was under a great deal of pressure to complete a computer program , and went in to work while I was suffering from the flu and not sleeping very well . |
| 20 | One of the men had a key and she was moved from the car into an empty , damp and very cold house . ’ |
| 21 | She took on a black lad and because she did that she was ostracised from the rest of the community . |
| 22 | She was recovering from an appendix op . |
| 23 | She was speaking from a call-box , he could hear the noises of the road , traffic , an aeroplane passing overhead . |
| 24 | She was speaking from a phone-box near the sea wall . |
| 25 | It was n't until she was stumbling from the room that she saw her mother . |
| 26 | She was paralysed from the waist down , but the baby survived . |
| 27 | ‘ And if he could n't make love to his wife because she was paralysed from the waist down … ’ |
| 28 | Inside , she was bleeding from the wounds inflicted by John Leinster , for she loved him as much as ever . |
| 29 | She had been physically hurt when she was dragged from the villa and she had been held captive ever since . |
| 30 | Once again Leonora found herself fighting with the tiller in a dinghy threatening to stand on its head in a mountainous sea , but this time when the engine cut out she was plucked from the boat before she could hit the water . |