Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | By then Cameron 's mind was rousing itself from shock , there were many things he wanted to say to James , but the moment they stepped down under the massive archway of the prison they were hustled in opposite directions . |
| 2 | The black cat was eyeing her from upstairs . |
| 3 | She also reveals how the actor who tried to make the world a better place was to rescue her from the brink again . |
| 4 | ‘ My first reaction was to get someone from the British Transport Police , but the door of their office was locked . |
| 5 | As they returned to Swinbrook on Grye , the gipsy horse , the trees of Wychwood closed in about them and Carrie imagined the sadly diminished yet still proud forest was protecting them from the rest of the world . |
| 6 | On the one hand papal taxation was preserving them from Edward 's attentions , except for customary feudal dues and prerogative levies ; it is safe to assume that the laity were adapting readily to the notion of leaving the tax burden , or as much of it as they could , to the clergy . |
| 7 | She dried her eyes presently because she realized that the Magistrate was watching her from not far away . |
| 8 | England team manager Keith Fletcher denied that Stewart 's problems with a bruised and misshapen right index finger were preventing him from keeping wicket and defended the decision to include Blakey . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The grey-brown circle suddenly became the face of a planet , and Ace was approaching it from space . |
| 11 | This wife stood by her afflicted husband and even expressed fears about what might happen if the firm were to remove him from his electronic friend : ‘ I know it sounds funny , but I 'm afraid that losing that computer may break his heart . ’ |
| 12 | A man was watching him from no more than ten feet away , standing still but looking backwards , as if his attention had been drawn to Ross 's sudden appearance . |
| 13 | The man was watching them from a bedroom window , the bat visible . |
| 14 | The nymph swayed dangerously now Finn was controlling her from above . |
| 15 | Our journey was to take us from one end of the village to the Bar-Tabac at the other end , a trip of some 200 metres down the straight street that led to the plump , vine-studded hills in the distance . |
| 16 | It must have seemed to them that Marian and Allen had perished in the flames and their own immediate concern was to remove themselves from the danger of the roof falling in on their heads and from the certain consequence that so conspicuous a fire in the night would be seen by the outlaws and would sooner or later bring them to the scene . |
| 17 | Lucy 's voice was calling her from outside on the landing . |
| 18 | It is believed Stavridis told the judge in a behind-closed-doors grilling that the pilot was directing him from shore . |
| 19 | It seemed like only moments after Shiona had fallen asleep that the light snapped on in the compartment and a strong hand was dragging her from her bunk . |
| 20 | Josey was watching her from the other side of the fireplace . |
| 21 | Kersey was briefing himself from the paperwork so far . |
| 22 | Before banks or even locks and keys were invented , the usual way of protecting valuable objects and money was to hide them from other people . |
| 23 | To insist on an overtly Polish identity was to exclude oneself from polite and educated Danzig society and to disqualify oneself from any job that promised social and economic advancement . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I dreamt that my mother was calling me from the bottom of a deep , deep well . |
| 26 | There was no time to hand pick and develop enough trainees , and the only solution was to capture them from other firms . |