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

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1 Diamond Head was leaping at me from the right .
2 He is not a natural extrovert ; leadership was thrust on him from a very early age .
3 I could tell that my father was looking at me from the other end of the table , swilling his juice round in his glass and staring at my head as I bent over my plate .
4 Agnes started and went towards her mother , who was looking at her from the kitchen doorway .
5 At first he sounded distant , as if he was calling to her from the basement of a big house , but he came nearer very quickly and suddenly he was shouting in her ear .
6 ‘ Vive l'Empereur ! ’ was borne to them from the enemy lines , time and again — into the land between the opposing armies , through their own lines , and away into the darkness .
7 Su'a received the third lbw of the match to which one could raise an eyebrow — this one was coming across him from a suspiciously sharp angle as DeFreitas bowled round the wicket and wide out .
8 The petition was accompanied by one from the magnates , who also sought the withdrawal of the tax on wool : it appears that for the first time since the Ordinances of 1310–11 the commons and the magnates were joining together to seek concessions and measures of reform from the king .
9 The great rat was staring at him from the hole in the corner of the picture .
10 It would appear that a large part of the answer was assumed by him from the outset and without argument .
11 My mother was reading to me from A Sporting Trip Through Abyssinia , and I can remember exactly where she had got to in the book when , thinking I looked feverish , she took my temperature and put me to bed .
12 Round about midnight our supper was delivered to us from the cookhouse in a thing called a ‘ haybox ’ .
13 Even while it was registering on her from the newspapers in his hands that he was no lie-a-bed but was up and had been out for his paper , he was taking in the damp , startled look of her and , feigning surprise himself , ‘ It 's a mermaid ! ’ he declared .
14 I was put off it from an early age because it used to be used in the by-lines in the Daily Telegraph and it sort of and it looked a bit wrong .
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