Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] from [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fungus Verticillium lecanii was developed commercially from work at Littlehampton . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She was trembling now from head to foot . |
| 5 | I was trembling violently from head to foot . |
| 6 | Confidence was handed on from patient to patient . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The parrot was scuttling along from arm to arm across his shoulders . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The £10 million sun and sangria soap was set up from scratch in just six months . |
| 13 | Geoffrey was brought up from infancy with the sons of neighbouring Angevin lords , on whose companionship he relied . |
| 14 | She was swinging slowly from side to side , like a pendulum . |
| 15 | He was reaching out from death to hurt me in the same old way , only this time I did n't have to know . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | To check his wandering thoughts he started to ask her to resume her labours elsewhere and finish the surgery when he had completed his own tasks in it — Only to find that she was hopping gently from foot to foot , and was bursting to ask him a question . |
| 19 | The passage of the train was telegraphed forward from point to point throughout its journey . |
| 20 | Adrian was sent home from school after a school outing to the zoo with a note for his father asking poor old dad to go to see the Headmaster immediately . |
| 21 | He was sent home from hospital after a short period , since the doctors thought it more important that he should be there with his wife , and he shouted " hurrah ! hurrah ! hurrah ! " as he was carried over the threshold . |
| 22 | In many of the experiments described in the earlier parts of this chapter , the context was changed substantially from pre-training to the test . |