Example sentences of "[adv] from [Wh adv] [pers pn] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last the evening drew to a close and outdoor clothes were brought down from where they had been laid on beds . |
| 2 | The winds ( see pages 8/9 for greater detail ) were of such force to blow a Douglas DC-6 and incredible 1.5 miles away from where it had been tied down . |
| 3 | but she sold her house in Jersey , her husband retires in July , the school break , and erm and she said I 've got some good , er when I got home from wherever I 'd been , Rudy left me a note to say phone Val good news and I thought it were her back was good news , but she said no me medical problems were not good news , they dare n't operate cos me back 's in such a state and they have n't give her much hope for anything apart from a wheelchair sort of thing , later on in life and erm , but she said that I 've got a bit of good news I 've sold me house so I said ooh lovely , so she said I do n't know any more but I ring you and let you know , the next night she phoned me back , she said yeah me house has gone they got two hundred and twenty thousand for it , they wanted them out a week on Thursday |
| 4 | The twins sprang up from where they had been sitting by Chola 's side and ran round the hearth to have a closer look . |
| 5 | When the door burst open he sat back on his heels and almost toppled over , and the child straightened up from where she had been thrust against the bed . |
| 6 | She gradually brought herself back from wherever she 'd been . |
| 7 | Reverend thought oh yes he 'd be very very glad of you , so he said I 'd be prepared to visit the sick , I 'd do anything like that and he did in fact start doing some visiting , and among other people that he called upon was a person living in Road , not very far really from where I 'd been born and I knew the area well . |
| 8 | Not far from where we lived was the local hospital , the Ospedale Peracchi . |
| 9 | Diagonally across from where she stood was the door to the back stairs . |