Example sentences of "was [adv] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Rather than Aunt Polly ) I enjoyed this book , and found it very clever , as it was all from Finn 's point of view . |
| 2 | In Brown v Rentokil Ltd [ 1992 ] 453 IRLIB 4 , the EAT ruled that an employee who had been dismissed in accordance with sickness absence rules when she was away from work because of pregnancy-related illness , was not discriminated against . |
| 3 | I was away from work . |
| 4 | Sadly they were to part with Angie attempting suicide and David snatching their son Zowie back from Angie while she was away from home in Switzerland . |
| 5 | Sometimes he was away from home for months at a time . |
| 6 | When Hazlitt and Coleridge visited Alfoxden the following day , Wordsworth was away from home ; but Dorothy provided them with a ‘ frugal repast ’ and let them see the now-abundant manuscripts intended for the Lyrical Ballads . |
| 7 | His father , being a geologist , was away from home most of the time , so that Hank could , to a degree , . |
| 8 | The real , open rows , my sisters have since told me , came later and when I was away from home . |
| 9 | I was away from home a lot and ended up collapsing with exhaustion . |
| 10 | I was worried that she 'd go off with someone else because she was so pretty and she thought the same about me because I was away from home so much . |
| 11 | Luckily he was away from home a good deal , which was when we got rogering . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ My husband was away from home a fair bit . |
| 13 | It was predictable whenever he was away from home — the stroll before bed — and they both knew better than to offer their company . |
| 14 | I promised to let him know when Edgar Linton was away from home . |
| 15 | Very frequently he was away from home , sampling the forms of service offered by the various high-church ecclesiastics in the area , driving determinedly over the countryside in a little red Mini that had become used to the eccentricities of his driving technique . |
| 16 | While his wife was away from home visiting some relations , Linkworth strangled his mother . |
| 17 | But I mean it 's it er it was great I mean the fact that I was I mean in in Aberdeen I was away from home , I mean you did n't even notice it , because of the number of Orcadians that popped in by the hospital and as I said sent cards and letters , it was great . |
| 18 | Jonathan Jobson , 16 , from Peterborough , Cambridgeshire , said his condition had improved when he was away from home on work experience and when the nurse , Beverley Allitt , had left . |
| 19 | Because I was away from home by this time . |
| 20 | And yet he had grown fond of him , and he had to admit to himself that when Len was away from camp he missed him . |
| 21 | Early in 1921 , a slight chill and a few spots on my chest meant that I was away from school for a couple of days . |
| 22 | Each of the four rounds was played as a pro-am four-ball , with a professional , a celebrity who was usually from show business and two amateurs , who paid handsomely for the privilege . |
| 23 | ‘ I was home from school . |
| 24 | But if he rubbed his eyes that late afternoon it was more from surprise than from exhaustion . |
| 25 | It provided them with assistance in their education , in their hospitals , actually one of the biggest hospitals in the occupied lands in Palestine , it was funded more than seventy per cent by Kuwaiti governments and their university was also from tuition and the salaries of professors they are all sponsored by the Kuwait government . |
| 26 | The steps were worn away at the centre , and Grainne wondered if it was from the footsteps which passed this way every night , or whether it was simply from age . |
| 27 | The only complaint — and she was not really complaining against her uncle , perhaps I should rather say the cause for depression — was that from time to time she was very homesick and longed to see her mother and girls of her own age . ’ |