Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adv] [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | But should n't I do better work if I were n't driven from pillar to post to supplement my salary ? |
| 2 | I was immediately dragged from the dock by the screws and led to the cell downstairs . ’ |
| 3 | This did not go down well and I was nearly ejected from the cab . |
| 4 | Unfortunately in 1971 I was not protected from that most pernicious word by those inverted commas . |
| 5 | Contrary to Stu 's reports , I was n't deported from the Netherlands for looking like E. Cantona ! |
| 6 | I wondered why this should be when Granny was so particular , but I was soon roused from my thoughts by Mum . |
| 7 | My posting came through and I was posted to Swordstone this side of Norwich , so I was still quids in , I could get home once a week , twenty four hour pass and then erm after a while erm , having served at Regiment , I was posted up to , as the Sergeant Artillery Clerk with the Brigade , an ack-ack brigade up at Coventry , just outside Coventry and then of course the A T S were coming in , were coming in in quite large numbers then and they were replacing male personnel and then I was posted abroad and I went to Egypt where I was there again , fortunate enough , I suppose , to go into the echelon , the second echelon which was the Records Office of all the forces or the armoured personnel in the Middle East and I worked there until I was actually demobbed from there but I was out in Egypt there for two , just over two years , came back to Northampton where I was finally demobbed and allowed to come home and as I said I came home one week and I was back at work the next . |
| 8 | By now I was virtually paralysed from head to toe . |
| 9 | I sent back a tirade of bitter invective , written during a long , lonely evening when Richard was dining in college : did she think that because I had given up working for my degree I was necessarily isolated from intelligent thought ? |
| 10 | I enclose the final version of the papers put before the Committee — which were slightly amended from the versions you say . |
| 11 | Long , regimented hours , more formal discipline and danger from unguarded machinery all imply differences in form and intensity which were not hidden from medical men who were familiar with the early factories . |
| 12 | The Hellenistic kings tried to provide a visual legitimisation of their position by choosing portraits which were closely derived from those of Alexander the Great . |
| 13 | It included a great quantity of local pottery , classified into 14 types , stamped mortaria of two makers ( the two stamps ROA and PETA are not helpful in reconstructing the actual names of these potters ) , and a remarkable carinated bowl with stamped decoration , all of which were surprisingly omitted from the 1936 report . |
| 14 | They were also recruiting among teachers and the Protestant clergy and among the Prussian civil service , employees of which were normally banned from belonging to political organisations , but whose membership was in this case overlooked . |
| 15 | In the subsidy goods of this value were taxed at 10 per cent for the first two years , the same rate as for land , the owners of which were mostly drawn from the wealthier strata , and double what was levied on smaller assessments . |
| 16 | By adopting such beliefs and applying them to contemporary society both found sustenance in elitist moral and ethical beliefs which were far removed from contemporary reality . |
| 17 | Both agreed to modifications in the proposals which were then considered from December 1938 until February 1939 . |
| 18 | As well as the Lewisian orthogneisses described above , several outcrops of metamorphic rocks occur which were undoubtedly derived from sedimentary rocks , and the old term paragneiss has been used to describe these , although this has now been superseded by the simpler term metasediments . |
| 19 | It is this essentially dynamic experience — energy releasing energy , which gives medieval Christian mysticism its special characteristics , many of which were directly derived from the teaching of St Augustine ( fifth century ) , the most seminal figure in the West for orthodox mystical theology . |
| 20 | The anti-pathology effects of this vaccine are most striking in valves and patas monkeys , both of which were essentially protected from disease when unvaccinated controls developed severe lesions . |
| 21 | The over-riding reason for the fall was the reduction in the working week which was particularly marked from 1966 onwards and was disproportionately large among female workers who were constituting a bigger share of the total working population . |
| 22 | We forgathered at one o'clock for a glass of Suze , a bitter aperitif which was probably made from artichokes because the label on the bottle carried a picture of one . |
| 23 | The same may be true of its addition to the 1018 entry that the meeting between Danes and English at Oxford agreed to observe Edgar 's law , which was probably taken from chapter 13 of the Letter of 1019 – 20 , now preserved only in a York manuscript , although there may have been a Worcester copy too . |
| 24 | The MDC was initially given control over a limited area of 865 acres of derelict and fragmented dockland which was geographically isolated from the rest of the city with little indigenous population or economic activity . |
| 25 | A comforting conclusion , but one which was wholly divorced from the actuality . |
| 26 | By a majority the Court of Appeal held that on the true analysis the firm had in fact been automatically dissolved ( because its continuance would have been illegal ) so soon as there was a failure to renew the practising certificate by one of its members , and that thereafter the properly qualified partners had carried on in a new partnership at will which was not prevented from recovering its costs . |
| 27 | The all-new Sparrow Mk3 , on which the company has invested so much , looks indistinguishable to the layman from the Mk2 , which was little changed from the Mk1 . |
| 28 | Just as Stalin had created a myth of himself which was universally repeated from East Berlin to the Bering Straits , so any successor could rewrite history to suit his convenience . |
| 29 | drip , so he gingerly raised his stiff right arm , which was heavily strapped from shoulder to wrist , and began to explore the extent of his body and head injuries as best he could . |
| 30 | There are also other provisions to prevent a party claiming he is entitled to render a contractual performance substantially different from that which was reasonably expected from him , or rendering no performance at all , of the whole or part of the contract . |