Example sentences of "was [verb] [pron] from [art] " 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 | Ginny could only suppose that Ralph thought he was protecting her from a possible nuisance . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Oh , I was writing it from the board actually . |
| 6 | Oh it was bought it from the Christmas , two ninety nine from . |
| 7 | I dreamt that my mother was calling me from the bottom of a deep , deep well . |
| 8 | For all the tact of his dealings with the army , his words and policies in the summer of 1958 plainly showed that de Gaulle was disassociating himself from the ideology of integration — i.e. integration of Algeria into France — that many officers favoured . |
| 9 | Yet many party supporters were outraged by this betrayal of the Whig tradition , and the very fact that the issue of liberty of conscience could now be given a low priority in the party agenda is perhaps indicative of the beginnings of the process whereby Whiggery was to divorce itself from the cause of Dissent . |
| 10 | If he was to save her from a lifetime 's retreat from life and love he had to move her along the right road as quickly as he dared and as quickly as she would let him . |
| 11 | He was constructing something from a foil ash tray when she approached . |
| 12 | It was believed someone from the Academy was helping Mann with the finance and distribution of the drugs . |
| 13 | Thus the effect of the nineteenth-century sales was to turn them from a class of privileged municipal tenants into outright owners of the surplus land of the community . |
| 14 | Or , if the Prince of Wales was to remove himself from the line of succession , that would be a grave matter . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She was lowering herself from the tip-toe that she needed to look over the panelled backing of the window display when something else caught her eye , further down the road . |
| 17 | ‘ My first reaction was to get someone from the British Transport Police , but the door of their office was locked . |
| 18 | He was draining her from every angle , mentally , physically and … and sexually . |
| 19 | Later I thought it through and decided a big part of it was that , although he was coining it from the teds , I think he felt he was seen — by his peers — as an artistic cretin . |
| 20 | The man was watching them from a bedroom window , the bat visible . |
| 21 | Someone was watching them from the top of the stairs . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Josey was watching her from the other side of the fireplace . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | At the beginning of September , 1715 , the mission left St. Petersburg on an incredible journey that was to take it from the shore of the Baltic Sea in the west , almost to the Pacific Ocean in the east , crossing the full width of European Russia , much of Siberia , Mongolia 's Gobi Desert and deep into China . |
| 26 | She was to collect it from the church house in the morning . ’ |
| 27 | Kersey was briefing himself from the paperwork so far . |
| 28 | Sue was beckoning her from the till . |
| 29 | Something too fierce was attacking her from the inside . |
| 30 | 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 . |