Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a heavy heart , Robert followed her towards the smooth , mysterious features of the house , whose windows , on this side , he could now see , were blacked out from the inside . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | No reports were received either from the Air Rifle Club or the Youth Club . |
| 4 | It 's not that Binbrook was such an important station to warrant all this staff , but as the size of the RAF contracted more and more , Waafs were posted there from the closing satellite stations and at one point there were twelve of us . |
| 5 | The pictures , together with the museum staff and the two guards accompanying them , were turfed off from the train because the guards lacked permits to carry weapons on Latvian territory . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When we were driving down from the border towards Beni Abbes , we quaked every time we saw police or soldiers . |
| 9 | The wounded who were carried in from the attack on the Rebecca lay in the shade under the trees while their hurts were being dressed . |
| 10 | She was only dimly aware of the approach of the two boys who were walking swiftly from the street corner . |
| 11 | While they were walking back from the Huddersfield discotheque , it suddenly dawned on Fred and Arthur that they had eaten three main meals that day instead of two . |
| 12 | They were shrinking back from the basement door . |
| 13 | While not exonerated , the four EC countries concerned — Germany , Greece , Italy and Spain — were considered far from the worst offenders . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | [ These appointments were omitted inadvertently from the roundups of republican appointments on p. 37384 and p. 37460 . ] |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Tribe caught them up as they were attacking a pair of two-seaters which were climbing away from the British Line , if there still was one , having just bombed an artillery position . |
| 18 | People were climbing down from the truck and seemed to be forming another queue . |
| 19 | Shatila and Bourj el-Brajneh were shelled incessantly from the month of May 1988 . |
| 20 | All Dave 's flavours were done apart from the odd few extras , |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | For one early arrival in Ramsey , where the internees were cordoned off from the rest of the town by barbed wire : |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This worked very well , but in 1988 people were pushing in from the sides instead of joining the queues , and tempers were becoming frayed and the situation somewhat dangerous as people trampled over the numerous electricity cables and water pipes . |
| 25 | She stopped and put her case down for a moment to try and collect herself ; her hands were trembling uncontrollably from the weight . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | PUPILS were turned away from the gates of one of Merseyside 's most troubled schools today after a devastating Bonfire Night arson attack . |
| 28 | PUPILS were turned away from the gates of one of Merseyside 's most troubled schools today , after a devastating Bonfire Night arson attack . |
| 29 | His head had an odd tilt or cock to it , set on the shoulders as if he were looking up from the bars of a drop-handled bike . |
| 30 | But now the men were sprinting back from the ramparts . |