Example sentences of "was [verb] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt as though she was seeing them from under a great weight . |
| 2 | She was seeing it from Sabine Jourdain 's point of view : a young foreigner pursuing her and intending to latch on to her . |
| 3 | He was seeing it all so differently from Gabriel ; he was seeing it from the other side of the mirror . |
| 4 | If I was phoning you from Publishing and I phoned up G A |
| 5 | Ginny could only suppose that Ralph thought he was protecting her from a possible nuisance . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 'I persuaded myself that I did n't want to introduce irrelevances into your investigation , when in fact I was protecting myself from having to relive traumas of the past . |
| 8 | The material was deemed faulty and Mr Martinson was emptying it from his truck when it splashed over him , causing severe burns . |
| 9 | To insist on an overtly Polish identity was to exclude oneself from polite and educated Danzig society and to disqualify oneself from any job that promised social and economic advancement . |
| 10 | To cling to a Polish identity was to exclude oneself from the German monopoly on higher education and from all but menial employment in industry ; given the rapid depopulation of the countryside it was also to insist on the right to become and remain part of a backward , ignorant , illiterate , inward-looking agrarian people , stuck in a rural backwater with no access to the outside world , with scant interest from that world and little hope of progress . |
| 11 | The senator spoke with a sudden and incredible venom , and I realised it was only that angry force that was keeping him from weeping for his two children . |
| 12 | Before banks or even locks and keys were invented , the usual way of protecting valuable objects and money was to hide them from other people . |
| 13 | The black cat was eyeing her from upstairs . |
| 14 | Oh , I was writing it from the board actually . |
| 15 | Fine er what we 're , what we 're saying to you basically is , right , and , and another thing you 're doing is proving that you 're capable of doing it , now if I was training you from cold , right , and you had n't done it |
| 16 | On the one hand papal taxation was preserving them from Edward 's attentions , except for customary feudal dues and prerogative levies ; it is safe to assume that the laity were adapting readily to the notion of leaving the tax burden , or as much of it as they could , to the clergy . |
| 17 | However Germany was short of helium and the major industrial producer — the USA , who was extracting it from natural gas — did n't want to supply it so soon after the war . |
| 18 | It is believed Stavridis told the judge in a behind-closed-doors grilling that the pilot was directing him from shore . |
| 19 | Oh it was bought it from the Christmas , two ninety nine from . |
| 20 | Then Izzie was calling him from behind the pageant . |
| 21 | She was calling me from central London , having travelled there with her young son on the underground train . |
| 22 | I dreamt that my mother was calling me from the bottom of a deep , deep well . |
| 23 | Lucy 's voice was calling her from outside on the landing . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The Midland Wagon Company were the owners of ‘ Perseverance ’ and the BCR was buying her from them on hire purchase . |
| 26 | Yet many party supporters were outraged by this betrayal of the Whig tradition , and the very fact that the issue of liberty of conscience could now be given a low priority in the party agenda is perhaps indicative of the beginnings of the process whereby Whiggery was to divorce itself from the cause of Dissent . |
| 27 | She was asking something from him , this stranger whose job was to shoot the IRA assassins if they came . |
| 28 | The grey-brown circle suddenly became the face of a planet , and Ace was approaching it from space . |
| 29 | If he was to save her from a lifetime 's retreat from life and love he had to move her along the right road as quickly as he dared and as quickly as she would let him . |
| 30 | He was constructing something from a foil ash tray when she approached . |