Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since they were cut off from the mainstream anyway , both sexually and socially , they had nothing to lose by outrageousness in their clothes ’ . |
| 2 | In the few moments they stood looking at each other , both were acutely aware they were cut off from the rest of the world . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Here where class and its rituals , football teams , chips , queues for everything , council estates , three storey houses , pebble dashed suburbia , languages we 'd never heard , the tube , children who 'd grown up with TV programmes we 'd never seen , pubs and warm beer ( when we saw COURAGE written on pub hoardings we thought they were left over from the war to give people morale ) , tea and gasfires and pets , having to make appointments to see people in advance rather than just arriving , suspicious politeness , all of these began to reveal themselves , intricately and ambiguously . |
| 6 | They were coming down from the Quarry , bigger engines . |
| 7 | An NCO clutching a grenade marched up to the barrier and Kahane told him that they were coming back from the front and were in a hurry . |
| 8 | One evening when they were coming back from the hunt , he pretended to be someone else and , all alone , jumped on Albuin pretending that he was going to steal by violence the horse Albuin was mounted on . |
| 9 | In 1602 they were thrown down from the walls of Geneva which they had assaulted by surprise . |
| 10 | They were shrinking back from the basement door . |