Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [adv prt] from [art] " 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 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 . |
| 3 | Twenty-five days later three survivors , all wounded , were picked up from a raft and taken to Capetown . |
| 4 | Both were picked out from an identity parade by witnesses . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | For one early arrival in Ramsey , where the internees were cordoned off from the rest of the town by barbed wire : |
| 7 | Reinforcements were called in from the Surrey , Kent , and Sussex forces . |
| 8 | But we were pulled back from the brink ; the attempt failed . |
| 9 | Everyone gathered together in the room next to our barrack room for meals , which were brought over from the main kitchens somewhere else in the citadel . |
| 10 | I watched with interest as rifles were brought up from the cellar and sandbags were filled . |
| 11 | The earliest of these was in 1495BC , when frankincense trees were brought back from the Horn of Africa for Queen Hatshepsut . |
| 12 | ‘ Both were brought in from the garden — home grown — and never left the kitchen until Cook gave them to Edith for the table . |
| 13 | Silver , lead , copper , iron and mercury were the most important metals which were brought in from the mines some of which were owned by Ragusan merchants — in Bosnia , Serbia and Kosovo . |
| 14 | Sheep were few , cows were kept only in small herds possibly of no more than six for dairy use , mostly of mixed breeds and the horses were brought in from the Midlands . |
| 15 | And seven new Peugeot cars were driven off from the Central African Motor Services : two were never found . |
| 16 | Unprinted goods were given exemptions for the sake of the English textile printing industry , fashionable Indian muslins were smuggled in from the Channel Islands , and the re-export trade to the rest of the world was unaffected , so Indian exports rose steadily . |
| 17 | The story of how the defenders withstood the might of Cromwell 's army , of how the Honours were smuggled out from the castle under the very noses of the English and hidden beneath the floor of nearby Kineff Kirk , and of how they lay buried for eight long years until returned once more to Edinburgh Castle , is one of the most well known , oft-repeated tales of Scottish history . |
| 18 | Anywhere that was obviously occupied he drove on past , as he did with any place that was exposed or too close to the main road , but deserted-looking buildings on village outskirts and elevated rows that were set back from the road generally rated at least a circling-around and a second look . |
| 19 | We are left with a verdict which sees the savage as fatally limited because cut off from God 's Word which passes understanding ; similarly , The Waste Lands fertility cults were cut off from the peace of ‘ Shantih shantih shantih ’ . |
| 20 | I gave her a rope , and told her to catch a horse and join the others who were cut off from the camp . |
| 21 | Since they were cut off from the mainstream anyway , both sexually and socially , they had nothing to lose by outrageousness in their clothes ’ . |
| 22 | In the few moments they stood looking at each other , both were acutely aware they were cut off from the rest of the world . |
| 23 | This development is particularly important in the study of those who wrote in the vernacular for laymen who were cut off from the richness of recollected prayer in the practice of the liturgy and in search of modes by which they could realise the substance of their faith . |
| 24 | However , the controls over local management in this respect were tightened up from the mid-1950s onwards . |
| 25 | If the plagioclase concentration is still less than critical for plagioclase alone , then the plagioclase would be mixed up into the ‘ clear layer ’ in the same way that in the experiments fine particles were swept up from the interfacial zone into the clear layer . |
| 26 | 10 ( not 10,000 ) were cast down from the top of the rock ( 2 Chronicles 25:12 ) . |
| 27 | The loss of innocence marred their communion with the divine love , and terror entered their hearts as they were cast off from the sustaining life of God . |
| 28 | Courses of stone were corbelled out from the angles of the walls of the square , each projecting beyond the others below and carried upon them . |
| 29 | Ron Canny , 45 , was crouching in a ditch on one side of a field near Osage , Iowa , when about seven deer were flushed out from the other side of the field . |
| 30 | In 1602 they were thrown down from the walls of Geneva which they had assaulted by surprise . |