Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His debut had been The Subject Was Roses for MGM in 1968 , the film of the Frank D. Gilroy play which , along with a plum Broadway role , was plucked away from Dustin by a pyrotechnical fondue pot . |
| 2 | Our intention was to slide seamlessly from Maureen to Joyce . |
| 3 | She was flown back from Zimbabwe at the weekend for treatment at Newcastle 's Royal Victoria Infirmary . |
| 4 | The fungus Verticillium lecanii was developed commercially from work at Littlehampton . |
| 5 | One evening at the end of May a middle-aged man was walking home from Shaston to the village of Marlott in the Vale of Blackmoor . |
| 6 | As the cylinder rotated , it was carried slowly from right to left under the mouthpiece by a screw mechanism , so consecutive lines of undulations were left in the tinfoil . |
| 7 | This study was carried out from March to December 1989 at the Kenyatta National Hospital , which is the only free public hospital in Nairobi , a city of 1.28 million residents . |
| 8 | Martin Clarke , 31 , of Witney , Oxfordshire , a ground worker , was returning home from work in December last year when he hit David Adams , killing him instantly . |
| 9 | She was trembling now from head to foot . |
| 10 | I was trembling violently from head to foot . |
| 11 | An Iraqi tanker was turned away from Aden after managing to unload a quantity of oil on Aug. 21 . |
| 12 | Confidence was handed on from patient to patient . ’ |
| 13 | Money was handed down from father to son ; it lost its merit as a token of worth ; the idle and nasty could be a great deal more rich than the hardworking and good . |
| 14 | The parrot was scuttling along from arm to arm across his shoulders . |
| 15 | Then I remembered he was flying back from Sydney on that day . |
| 16 | A little later , at 7 p.m. , the whole scene was lit up from time to time by electrical discharges , and at one time the cloud above the mountain presented ‘ the appearance of an immense pine tree , with the stem and branches formed with volcanic lightning ’ . |
| 17 | But in 24 of 40 WFS countries , among women who worked , levels of infant mortality were lower when the mother was employed away from home in anon-farm occupation ( some education and skills ) than when she had not worked at all since marriage . |
| 18 | Once , when play had been suspended at Little Aston because of rain , Norman Sutton , that fine striker with the double-handed grip , was recalling a tournament in which the wind was blowing hard from right to left across the eighteenth . |
| 19 | According to traditions in Benin , casting was introduced there from Ife at a date estimated to be towards the end of the 14th century , about a century before the first European contact with Benin was made by sea . |
| 20 | And then I , I was coming back from lectures at , as he was like leaving our house and he looked a really sorry state . |
| 21 | The £10 million sun and sangria soap was set up from scratch in just six months . |
| 22 | Two other drugs were introduced in the sixteenth century , ‘ China root ’ , an extract of Smilax sinensis , which was brought over from Goa by the Portuguese , and sarsaparilla from Sassafras officinale , an American plant . |
| 23 | Geoffrey was brought up from infancy with the sons of neighbouring Angevin lords , on whose companionship he relied . |
| 24 | So the arrangements were made with the White Star line and unbeknown to Nellie , Liam eventually did get two reservations on the new ship , which was brought down from Liverpool to Southampton , where most of the passengers got on , and then to Cherbourg to pick up some more and finally to Queenstown before crossing the Atlantic to New York . |
| 25 | She was swinging slowly from side to side , like a pendulum . |
| 26 | He was reaching out from death to hurt me in the same old way , only this time I did n't have to know . |
| 27 | The look on the devil-man 's face was a foolish , exaggerated astonishment , like the face he wore when Lucifer was cast down from Heaven to Hell against all his expectations . |
| 28 | In Turkestan , the issues were at their most stark , for the province was cut off from Moscow during the Civil War . |
| 29 | The female police officer who was hurt with a slight ankle injury when a car ran over her foot , was allowed home from hospital after treatment . |
| 30 | The Trade and Shipping portfolio was taken over from Nordboe by Björn Tore Godal , leader of the Storting 's standing committee on foreign affairs , while Sandman 's portfolio , Children 's and Family Affairs , went to Grete Berget , a close personal adviser to Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland . |