Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [verb] [adv prt] from the " in BNC.
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1 | But we were pulled back from the brink ; the attempt failed . |
2 | Because when we were coming back from the park at er , no not the park where was we ? |
3 | When we were driving down from the border towards Beni Abbes , we quaked every time we saw police or soldiers . |
4 | Since they were cut off from the mainstream anyway , both sexually and socially , they had nothing to lose by outrageousness in their clothes ’ . |
5 | In the few moments they stood looking at each other , both were acutely aware they were cut off from the rest of the world . |
6 | The loss of innocence marred their communion with the divine love , and terror entered their hearts as they were cast off from the sustaining life of God . |
7 | While they were walking back from the Huddersfield discotheque , it suddenly dawned on Fred and Arthur that they had eaten three main meals that day instead of two . |
8 | Here where class and its rituals , football teams , chips , queues for everything , council estates , three storey houses , pebble dashed suburbia , languages we 'd never heard , the tube , children who 'd grown up with TV programmes we 'd never seen , pubs and warm beer ( when we saw COURAGE written on pub hoardings we thought they were left over from the war to give people morale ) , tea and gasfires and pets , having to make appointments to see people in advance rather than just arriving , suspicious politeness , all of these began to reveal themselves , intricately and ambiguously . |
9 | They were coming down from the Quarry , bigger engines . |
10 | An NCO clutching a grenade marched up to the barrier and Kahane told him that they were coming back from the front and were in a hurry . |
11 | One evening when they were coming back from the hunt , he pretended to be someone else and , all alone , jumped on Albuin pretending that he was going to steal by violence the horse Albuin was mounted on . |
12 | In 1602 they were thrown down from the walls of Geneva which they had assaulted by surprise . |
13 | They were shrinking back from the basement door . |
14 | His head had an odd tilt or cock to it , set on the shoulders as if he were looking up from the bars of a drop-handled bike . |