Example sentences of "he was [verb] [pron] from [art] " in BNC.

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1 As Woodroffe recounts , he was watching it from the opposite bank of the narrow stream and was so close that he was worried the vole would hear his receiver pulsing loudly .
2 If he was to save her from a lifetime 's retreat from life and love he had to move her along the right road as quickly as he dared and as quickly as she would let him .
3 He was seeing it all so differently from Gabriel ; he was seeing it from the other side of the mirror .
4 He was constructing something from a foil ash tray when she approached .
5 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 .
6 He was draining her from every angle , mentally , physically and … and sexually .
7 Ginny could only suppose that Ralph thought he was protecting her from a possible nuisance .
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