Example sentences of "was [verb] from [pron] [det] " in BNC.

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1 But she was diverted from her own reaction by Arthur .
2 This was done from her own home and there were something like fifty thousand sparklers in that house with young children running around .
3 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 .
4 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 ?
5 He let everyone think that he was calling from his own area , and not from the middle of their territory .
6 David was coming from his own lodging , pale and grave and preoccupied , with his child-wife by the hand .
7 Five years into his term , in 1972 , the BDDA at long last established headquarters at 38 Victoria Place , Carlisle , so that for the first time in its history the Association was run from its own national office by full-time paid officers .
8 So I was learning from my own mistakes and others at the time er things like getting the right county where the New Brighton happen to be and things like that I was learning .
9 ‘ For it seems that she was removed from her own altar without human agency — or at least you have found none .
10 Much of it was conducted from her own room , which soon acquired a shrine-like notoriety , both on account of its furnishings and its occupant .
11 By the autumn of 1340 , still awaiting the fruits of these grants , deserted by Lewis of Bavaria and with only the naval victory at Sluys to encourage him , Edward was borrowing from his own archers and offering his commanders as hostages for his debts to his allies .
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