Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [pron] from " 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 | Harrison v Hill [ 1932 ] SC ( J ) 13 where a road maintained by a farmer , leading from the public road to his farmhouse , was held to be a road , the farmer turned away people who were using it from time to time but it was also used by people having no business at the farm ; |
| 3 | Susan had no clothes on , and the two men were showering her from head to foot — in her eyes , inside her ears , everywhere . |
| 4 | These were the fifth and sixth centuries , when Byzantine designs were forming themselves from early Christian patterns , and the tenth to thirteenth centuries when more elaborate buildings were erected in a new wave of expansion . |
| 5 | I thought you meant you were moving it from there . |
| 6 | I ca n't quite imagine where they were getting them from . |
| 7 | They called out our names and we had to follow where we think they were calling us from . |
| 8 | There is no guarantee on PPs — you could do better , but if inflation went up , or the stock market turned sour , or the people you were buying it from were not very clever , you could do very much worse . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She was unshackled and they were dragging her from the only remaining hut . |
| 11 | He felt precisely as if he were hiding something from her . |
| 12 | The dark eyes were raking her from head to toe , appraising her — from the long , tousled russet hair to the bare feet protruding from beneath the hem of her wrap . |
| 13 | Maybe the Russians were screening something from him ; he could only presume that they were . |
| 14 | ‘ And you were fighting me from the moment we met again . ’ |
| 15 | They were making it from a tin of clams , a tin of sweetcorn , garlic and a carton of double cream . |
| 16 | I had suffered from these cramps four years before and in Tokyo they were bothering me from the start . |
| 17 | The name was spoken with a malevolent hiss , as though he were spitting it from his blood-smeared mouth , so hateful was its foul taste to him . |
| 18 | It was frightening to walk through the Barkhor , where Chinese soldiers with machineguns were watching us from the roofs . |
| 19 | During Frankfurt , which ATP like to call the World Championships , even though to call the winner there the world champion would instantly devalue the status of the top player in their world rankings , ( irrespective of whether the ITF 's official World Champion Panel makes the same choice or not ) signs were bombarding us from all directions . |
| 20 | England team manager Keith Fletcher denied that Stewart 's problems with a bruised and misshapen right index finger were preventing him from keeping wicket and defended the decision to include Blakey . |
| 21 | Thailand 's leading conservationist , Sueb Nakhasatien , committed suicide in 1990 after complaining repeatedly that official corruption and a lack of resources were preventing him from acting effectively against wildlife poaching . |
| 22 | Respondents were asked to describe how they would like to expand their training programmes : this elicited needs that libraries perceived as significant but which were not being satisfied , and information about the factors that they felt were preventing them from undertaking ‘ enough ’ training . |
| 23 | European pressure on the USA to extend its trade liberalization policy grew after reports on April 11 that some West German companies including the Volkswagen car manufacturing company had complained that COCOM regulations were preventing them from supplying machinery to their newly acquired factories in East Germany . |
| 24 | 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 . |