Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [pron] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diamond Head was leaping at me from the right . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Agnes started and went towards her mother , who was looking at her from the kitchen doorway . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The great rat was staring at him from the hole in the corner of the picture . |
| 8 | It would appear that a large part of the answer was assumed by him from the outset and without argument . |
| 9 | Round about midnight our supper was delivered to us from the cookhouse in a thing called a ‘ haybox ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |