Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those attending the seminar were overwhelmingly from accountancy firms — excluding myself , 23 of the 26 participants . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , unless his senses were awry from fear and pain , a newcomer had arrived on the scene . |
| 3 | They were mostly from Hargeisa , townspeople with a reasonable standard of living . |
| 4 | He said the thieves were mostly from Yorkshire and Tyne and Wear and they travelled north each February to raid golden eagle nests . |
| 5 | The extra cancer deaths were apparently from lung cancer . |
| 6 | They were away from home for six weeks and in that time covered thousands of miles , made over forty flights , attended a multitude of receptions , galas and banquets and shook more hands in walkabouts than could ever be counted . |
| 7 | I did n't know you were away from home . |
| 8 | There were also other things such as places where people were away from home — the Plain Clothes could have as many as twenty or thirty places where people were away from home , and he was expected to pay attention and he would have to go round and visit them all . |
| 9 | There were also other things such as places where people were away from home — the Plain Clothes could have as many as twenty or thirty places where people were away from home , and he was expected to pay attention and he would have to go round and visit them all . |
| 10 | Around three thousand letters and cards were sent to the children while they were away from home in a campaign resembling those organised by Amnesty for political prisoners . |
| 11 | They were the only ones allowed through in the five weeks the children were away from home . |
| 12 | Our own hardships palled to insignificance when we learned that often their ships were away from home for six months , and that they could be roaming as far afield as Nova Scotia after leaving Scotland . |
| 13 | Mrs Garvey 's parents , who live near Droitwich in Worcs , were away from home this afternoon . |
| 14 | Probably all three of them were away from court at the time of the murder : Waddo was certainly in the retinue of Chilperic 's daughter Rigunth , who was en route for Spain , where she was to have been married . |
| 15 | The children were away from Orkney for five weeks . |
| 16 | And I think where where youngsters were away from school that was a greater reason for them to be at home , to look after home , whilst their parents were ill or if probably one of the other kids were off ill or something like that you see , because in most families there was what three and four children . |
| 17 | Come the summer holiday which was August Bank holiday , for this I think we were away from school a month . |
| 18 | Glaxo Group Research says it does not have a career break scheme because it believes that ‘ it would be too difficult for our scientists to keep up with the pace of change if they were away from work for an extended period ’ . |
| 19 | " Auntie Eve " could always be relied on to take an interest in their studies , or come up with something exciting such as a picnic or a day in the bush when they were home from boarding school . |
| 20 | Ashley says it 's hard work at the Institute , but says two of his friends he made there who were also from England encouraged him . |
| 21 | It 's funny , but people who used to say we sounded like The Chameleons were mainly from Middleton . |
| 22 | In September 1989 , that most disastrous of all salmon fishing seasons , Blair and I were downstream from Paradise Wood . |
| 23 | Well we on the beach on on the there , we went th we were there from morning till night wh during school holidays . |
| 24 | Some claimed that the powers which they tapped were either from God or from their own subconscious mind . |
| 25 | Most of the materials sent from home were actually from England , so I started to write to everyone there . |
| 26 | ( Rather than Aunt Polly ) I enjoyed this book , and found it very clever , as it was all from Finn 's point of view . |
| 27 | In Brown v Rentokil Ltd [ 1992 ] 453 IRLIB 4 , the EAT ruled that an employee who had been dismissed in accordance with sickness absence rules when she was away from work because of pregnancy-related illness , was not discriminated against . |
| 28 | I was away from work . |
| 29 | Sadly they were to part with Angie attempting suicide and David snatching their son Zowie back from Angie while she was away from home in Switzerland . |
| 30 | Sometimes he was away from home for months at a time . |