Example sentences of "were [verb] [pron] from [art] " in BNC.

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1 What gave me a thrill — why , outside the low door , two men were unloading something from a cart ; it was the carcass of a bear !
2 In the centre of the piece was a carving of a shoemaker resisting four shaggy devils who were dragging him from the embraces of what at first Athelstan thought was a young lady but , on looking closer , -realised that with his tail and close-cropped hair , it was a depiction of a male prostitute .
3 She was unshackled and they were dragging her from the only remaining hut .
4 ‘ And you were fighting me from the moment we met again . ’
5 They were making it from a tin of clams , a tin of sweetcorn , garlic and a carton of double cream .
6 I had suffered from these cramps four years before and in Tokyo they were bothering me from the start .
7 It was frightening to walk through the Barkhor , where Chinese soldiers with machineguns were watching us from the roofs .
8 He reported success with Yellow-root ( i.e. Hydrastis canadensis ) as it had ‘ flowered and ripened seeds in our garden , two years past , from some roots which were sent me from the inland parts of your country .
9 She turned her back on him , praying that he would not touch her , her throat so tight now with tears that it seemed to be closing , her chest feeling as if frantic hands were hammering it from the inside , bursting it — in several raw , sore places — wide open .
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