Example sentences of "was [verb] from [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This reasoning alone casts doubt on the idea that the Earth 's own moon was formed from its orbiting dust grains . |
| 2 | But she was diverted from her own reaction by Arthur . |
| 3 | The 29-year old victim from South Norwood , south-east London , was recovering from her 13-hour ordeal after supermarket staff called police and her assailant ran off following a struggle . |
| 4 | Consequently he was recovering from his minor ordeal . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , thanks to a series of startling medical breakthroughs , his father was recovering from his debilitating strokes . |
| 6 | He was sacked from his final job , at Motorbility , suppliers of Reliant Robins , for ‘ encouraging a session of dirty joke telling on a wet afternoon ’ . |
| 7 | He was sacked from his ministerial post in June for criticizing what he saw as Franco 's lack of commitment to the Axis cause . |
| 8 | She seized the handle , but the impetus was too great , and it was wrenched from her convulsive grasp . |
| 9 | For the time being she was excused from her prop-room duties and she need n't wait for the curtain call . |
| 10 | The only conclusion that can be drawn from the above correspondence is that Stirling must have had some sort of operation in mind using parachutes during the period when he was returning from his second visit to Sirte . |
| 11 | It was expected from her young people , by which she really meant her customers . |
| 12 | This was done from her own home and there were something like fifty thousand sparklers in that house with young children running around . |
| 13 | Her misery was made complete because she was separated from her two sons who were flying first class . |
| 14 | Ms Williams , who is a captain in the US Army Reserve and was separated from her own family during the conflict , asked 45 mothers and 61 children to describe what impact the hostilities had on them . |
| 15 | From one class of variation it was concluded that ‘ each brooch was made from its individual model ’ ( ibid. , p. 30 ) . |
| 16 | A green liquid was pouring from his broken and battered body . |
| 17 | Elean : So the story Devil at a Dead End , which deals with some of the experiences of a young Black South African girl crossing the border from Lesotho , was drawn from your own experiences ? |
| 18 | She swivelled her eyes to the potatoes Léonie was fetching from their earthy resting-place on the larder floor . |
| 19 | Marjory had been killed in a fall from a horse two years earlier ; but a boy child , Robert , was born from her dead body . |
| 20 | He stressed there was no one else involved in the break-up which comes just days after comic Jim Davidson revealed he was splitting from his fourth wife . |
| 21 | He let everyone think that he was calling from his own area , and not from the middle of their territory . |
| 22 | The aversion argument was extracted from its literary context and elevated into a full-blown defence of crudity in the Oz case : " One of the arguments was that many of the illustrations in Oz were so grossly lewd and unpleasant that they would shock in the first instance and then would tend to repel . |
| 23 | He explained his interest in moral , political , and legal issues as that of ‘ an economist who discovered that if he was to draw from his technical knowledge conclusions relevant to the public issues of our time , he had to make up his mind on many questions to which economics did not supply an answer ’ . |
| 24 | On 6 September 1746 two new French privateers , L'Heureux and Le Prince de Conti , reached Loch nam Uamh and on 19 September the prince was summoned from his impromptu shelter on the slopes of Ben Alder in Inverness-shire , a mere 25 miles [ 40 km ] from Fort William . |
| 25 | The layout and design of the domus was derived from its Hellenistic prototype as built on Delos and at Priene ( page 82 ) , . |
| 26 | Most of his education was derived from his eldest brother , Dr John Green , who was master of a school at Denmark Street , Soho , London , where Charles later became an assistant teacher . |
| 27 | Thus Haemig has argued that between 1486 and 1502 , the great-tailed grackle ( Quiscalus mexicanus ) was introduced from its original home in Veracruz to the Valley of Mexico by the Aztec Emperor , Auitzotl . |
| 28 | After a brief examination , it became evident that the lady 's pain was coming from her right kidney , and as it was in waves , or ‘ colicky ’ , my aunt was led to believe it was from the renal vein — which leads into the kidney — and as this organ felt hard , a conclusion was reached that our patient probably had a kidney-stone blocking the hollow vein . |
| 29 | David was coming from his own lodging , pale and grave and preoccupied , with his child-wife by the hand . |
| 30 | ‘ — and then I belonged to the Pasha of Re'durat and played a prominent part in the battle of the Great Nef , which is where I received the slight nick you may have noticed some two-thirds of the way up my blade , ’ Kring was saying from its temporary home in a tussock . |