Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [pron] 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 | I dreamt that my mother was calling me from the bottom of a deep , deep well . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Someone was watching them from the top of the stairs . |
| 9 | Josey was watching her from the other side of the fireplace . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Kersey was briefing himself from the paperwork so far . |
| 12 | Sue was beckoning her from the till . |
| 13 | Something too fierce was attacking her from the inside . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She was clocking me from the corner of one bleary eye . |