Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] from [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Australians were recovering again from the brink of disaster , although a ruthless reprisal raid by Portuguese against the natives who had helped the Japanese was storing up trouble for the future . |
| 2 | No reports were received either from the Air Rifle Club or the Youth Club . |
| 3 | The Burgage is close to Cheltenham race course and race goers heading for the first day of the Cheltenham Gold Cup meeting were diverted away from the murder house . |
| 4 | I was coming south from England ; they were returning home from a factory in Germany . |
| 5 | From the stack of suitcases strapped on the overhead rack and the fact that they were driving away from the coast I guessed they were returning from a holiday . |
| 6 | She was only dimly aware of the approach of the two boys who were walking swiftly from the street corner . |
| 7 | A report in the International Herald Tribune at the end of August suggested that the Khmers Rouges were keeping away from the UN disarmament process because their forces had grown so small that they would lose influence if the numbers were made public . |
| 8 | [ These appointments were omitted inadvertently from the roundups of republican appointments on p. 37384 and p. 37460 . ] |
| 9 | The seeds tended to be large and heavy and passed through the gut in 13 hours , the passage time inversely correlated with specific gravity of the seeds and had an indirect effect on the distance that seeds were dispersed away from the mother tree . |
| 10 | Shatila and Bourj el-Brajneh were shelled incessantly from the month of May 1988 . |
| 11 | Dinosaurs overcame this problem by pushing the lower end of the pubic bones behind the hip socket , and so the coils of intestines were thrust backwards from the belly . |
| 12 | They were whisked away from the theatre by an ever vigilant matron , who stood over them while they had their dreaded wash with cold water from the jug and basin in their room . |
| 13 | She stopped and put her case down for a moment to try and collect herself ; her hands were trembling uncontrollably from the weight . |
| 14 | PUPILS were turned away from the gates of one of Merseyside 's most troubled schools today after a devastating Bonfire Night arson attack . |
| 15 | PUPILS were turned away from the gates of one of Merseyside 's most troubled schools today , after a devastating Bonfire Night arson attack . |
| 16 | Reporters were turned away from the college , where he has lived since the break-up of his marriage , by the porter , Mr Des Koogan , a former army boxing champion . |
| 17 | But even that was a better success rate than among the nests that were built away from the colony . |
| 18 | People were turning away from the dance spectacle to watch , with varying degrees of amusement , the small drama being enacted in their midst . |
| 19 | Its 60 members were drawn equally from the Parliament and the Congress of Estonia , a 495-member body elected as a pressure group in March 1990 by citizens of pre-war Estonia and their descendants . |
| 20 | At least if they kept going towards the sunset they were going away from the Ridgery and would arrive somewhere . |
| 21 | They were going away from the house towards the sea . |
| 22 | They were moving away from the fire door when there was a loud report , like a large cannon going off . |
| 23 | In addition , whilst Falangists Arrese and Girón de Velasco were ousted respectively from the Party Secretariat and the Ministry of Labour , they were replaced by two men who were also Falangists but who , by contrast , were known to be more moderate and flexible in their views than their predecessors . |
| 24 | Only six were noted away from the coast , and birds sometimes made prolonged stays in favoured coastal marshes , for example 35 days in 1965 . |
| 25 | They were getting away from the busyness and bright lights . |
| 26 | People were drifting away from the house , moving into the garden . |
| 27 | Perhaps the commonest stone vessels were those that were compact in form , like birds ' nests , but more ambitious forms were attempted even from the beginning , such as the circular pot-lids with handles in the form of a reclining dog , made , apparently in some numbers , at Mochlos in around 2500 BC . |
| 28 | ‘ It was as we were coming away from the assassin 's apartment . |
| 29 | One November afternoon Leithen and I were coming home from a ride . |
| 30 | ’ British pop evolved from R&B dance culture , but while the working classes were coming home from the factory and putting on some Motown , the people who now run record companies were at university listening to Genesis or Peter Frampton or whatever — their only contact with pop culture was Gary Glitter or Sweet . |