Example sentences of "it [was/were] from [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The moor was all round the saucer in which Chesney lay but the best views of it were from his house , the last house before the road curved round . |
| 2 | She thought it was from her father that she 'd inherited her logical mind and a way with figures . |
| 3 | However , it was from her mother Jeannie and her grandmother Maria Stewart that she absorbed the song-treasury which was to be the dominant love of her life . |
| 4 | And it was from their number that the most prominent socialist leaders of 1917 were drawn . |
| 5 | It was from my teacher and her two other pupils , who were older than me , that I learnt about all the intrigues and scandals that went on in the village . |
| 6 | What I do n't understand , ’ he added softly , ‘ is why you did n't give me a chance to tell you how it was from my point of view . |
| 7 | Maurice surmised it was from his aunt . |
| 8 | But Mark was down ; he wrote to you and told you how it was from his point of view , with his perspective . |
| 9 | In 1890 her father moved to the parish of Kirkby Lonsdale and it was from his vicarage in this small town that Margaret , with the help of her lifelong friend Lilian Harris ( died 1950 ) , ran the Guild until 1908 . |
| 10 | From the handwriting he knew it was from his mother , and he ran to his workshop to read it . |