Example sentences of "was [verb] [pron] from the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He was seeing it all so differently from Gabriel ; he was seeing it from the other side of the mirror .
2 To cling to a Polish identity was to exclude oneself from the German monopoly on higher education and from all but menial employment in industry ; given the rapid depopulation of the countryside it was also to insist on the right to become and remain part of a backward , ignorant , illiterate , inward-looking agrarian people , stuck in a rural backwater with no access to the outside world , with scant interest from that world and little hope of progress .
3 ‘ My first reaction was to get someone from the British Transport Police , but the door of their office was locked .
4 Josey was watching her from the other side of the fireplace .
5 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 .
6 Her old father was extricating himself from the front seat slowly , painfully , gasping , as though he had to push open a heavy coffin lid in order to rise from the dead .
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