Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [vb pp] from [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon , we were rescued from moral danger ; |
| 2 | In fact they were painted from dead specimens , and to get within range of a naturalist was a misfortune for a nineteenth-century bird or animal ; but Audubon painted them against realistic backgrounds , and in more or less plausible action . |
| 3 | They were made from six-inch squares of crotchet work , sewn together , each square a different colour and texture , made , I supposed , from odd ends of wool conserved by generations of thrifty peasants . |
| 4 | They were made from painted lead . ’ |
| 5 | She wore enormous shapeless skirts which looked as if they were made from old curtains or bedspreads , and baggy sweatshirts which she had dyed herself in dingy shades of rust , snot-green and pale mouldy purple . |
| 6 | These ‘ five techniques ’ ( requiring prisoners to wear hoods over their heads unless they were separated from other inmates or being interrogated , having them stand spreadeagled against a wall for up to 43 hours , depriving them of sleep , subjecting them to electronic noise and beating them ) were subsequently condemned as ‘ torture ’ by the European Rights Commission ( Hewitt , 1982:157–8 ) . |
| 7 | In 1974 the structure changed and they were taken from local authorities and amalgamated within the new health authorities — first area , and then later ( 1982 ) district , health authorities . |
| 8 | ( 3 ) they were drawn from different library divisions and included two divisions whose schools had not been represented in the Major Project evaluation sample ; |
| 9 | My failure to identify them is doubly frustrating because of the likelihood that most of them were copied from published anthologies . |
| 10 | Herschel reasoned that a relatively nearby star would show a parallax shift against the background of more remote stars if it were observed from opposite sides of the Earth 's orbit . |