Example sentences of "was from [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought it was from generator to a pipe , couple of hand brakes in there . |
| 2 | The sleepy period was from midnight until noon , of which the worst part was about dawn . |
| 3 | Another road design of the same period , which included Ireland 's first suspension bridge , was from Kenmare to Bantry , in the south-west . |
| 4 | One was from erm from Baghdad to Barqu and the other one was from Barqu to Basrah because he was in the First World War , I think he was serving with the Middlesex Regiment and erm , I do n't know how he managed this , I never did understand . |
| 5 | Although 70% of the company 's revenue was from Unix in the last fiscal year , Progress defended its support of the AS/400 : IBM is refocusing it as an open platform and database server which means it can be combined with Unix , commented Wark . |
| 6 | It could be called upon at any time and indeed was from time to time . |
| 7 | Yardley bore all these setbacks with great dignity , afflicted as he was from time to time by a form of lumbago that almost certainly hastened his retirement . |
| 8 | He was from time to time ordered to raise money by leasing out assarts and waste lands , and by organizing and supervising sales of timber and underwood . |
| 9 | In any event , on this picture , he was from time to time spectacularly taken with a seizure of one kind or another . ’ |
| 10 | Lessing was a man of many parts — writer , literary critic , historian , advocate of religious tolerance — who also made pioneering contributions to the study of the New Testament , and was from time to time embroiled in the continuing controversies between rationalism and orthodoxy . |
| 11 | It was widely rumoured that when the party leader , Klement Gottwald , died , in March 1953 , it was from grief at the death of Stalin a few weeks earlier . |
| 12 | The time we 're looking at , so we decided traditional was from civilization to World War Two and we decided that World War Two to ninety four was modern okay . |