Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [pers pn] from the " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | She was unshackled and they were dragging her from the only remaining hut . |
3 | ‘ And you were fighting me from the moment we met again . ’ |
4 | I had suffered from these cramps four years before and in Tokyo they were bothering me from the start . |
5 | It was frightening to walk through the Barkhor , where Chinese soldiers with machineguns were watching us from the roofs . |
6 | 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 . |