Example sentences of "was [verb] [pers pn] from the " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Oh , I was writing it from the board actually . |
| 4 | Oh it was bought it from the Christmas , two ninety nine from . |
| 5 | I dreamt that my mother was calling me from the bottom of a deep , deep well . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Someone was watching them from the top of the stairs . |
| 8 | Josey was watching her from the other side of the fireplace . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She was to collect it from the church house in the morning . ’ |
| 12 | Sue was beckoning her from the till . |
| 13 | Something too fierce was attacking her from the inside . |
| 14 | She was clocking me from the corner of one bleary eye . |
| 15 | She also reveals how the actor who tried to make the world a better place was to rescue her from the brink again . |