Example sentences of "[v-ing] from [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dozens of people were seen leaping from windows in the apartment blocks . |
| 2 | Twenty people were reported killed after leaping from windows in the buildings . |
| 3 | ‘ For this reason , purchasing from brochures or purchasing from a system demonstration on-site is simply inadequate . |
| 4 | Rodgers and his wife built up the collection without the aid of a professional adviser , purchasing from dealers and at auction . |
| 5 | The mandatory rights would also be granted to policyholders purchasing from insurers based in other EC countries . |
| 6 | She denied that search consultants observed any professional ethics beside the obvious one of not poaching from clients for at least two years , and noted a complete absence of clear standards of approach and guarantees to do the job properly . |
| 7 | As well as explanation of painting techniques , Alwyn deals with drawing , perspective , painting from photographs and other relevant subjects . |
| 8 | Yet the plain fact is that this number of children are dying every day — dying from diseases we know how to cure . |
| 9 | I mean , a sudden leap in the statistics for people dying from Aids or some disease they have n't put a name to yet . ’ |
| 10 | Aid officials from the United Kingdom , returning from visits to Eritrea and Tigre on April 3 , reported that food supplies were reaching people in the region , mostly via the cross-border route from Sudan , and that there was no mass starvation , but warned that the situation could worsen when existing food aid pledges ran out after May . |
| 11 | Arguably the most turbulent priest in the Anglo-Saxon experience , Wilfrid spent a great deal of his mature life entering into and returning from exiles imposed by English kings with whom he had quarrelled . |
| 12 | On Feb. 12 Lebanese Deputy Prime Minister and National Defence Minister Michel al-Murr , returning from talks with Syrian officials , said that the army had instructions to ban any displays of armed force there . |
| 13 | The re-contra commanders were returning from talks in Managua with President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro concerning the continued violence between re-contras and re-compas . |
| 14 | Already officers were returning from enquiries with completed interview-forms and Lucy Lane was going through them as they came in . |
| 15 | Crash runways were built nearby for the bombers returning from missions in Europe , and Free French forces were billeted in the village . |
| 16 | With no uniform but an armband and all but no weapons , we kept watch in rotation through the warm nights of that early summer , with German planes passing overhead and all of a sudden the ground shuddering from bombs dropped on Southampton or Bristol . |
| 17 | With the home side apparently transformed after the interval , former Irish under-21 cap Liam Dunne gave them an unexpected 50th-minute winner , scoring his first league goal since signing from Bohemians two years ago . |
| 18 | ( First Edition ) KEVIN DRINKELL , Coventry City 's record signing from Rangers , is set to make his debut for the Sky Blues in the Littlewoods Cup tonight , against Grimsby Town , the club where he spent the first nine years of his career . |
| 19 | Kevin Drinkell , Coventry 's record signing from Rangers , ushered the club with whom he began his career towards the exit with a debut goal of which dreams are made . |
| 20 | Rideout a £500,000 early season signing from Rangers notched his first Premier League goal with a soaring header to seal a 1-0 win and move Everton out of the bottom three . |
| 21 | In the 1950s European population was still concentrating into metropolitan cores ( perhaps in part as a process of adjustment to rebuilt cities ) , but by the 1960s a reversal had taken place , with people decentralizing from cores to rings , a process which accelerated in the 1970s . |
| 22 | Families eating candyfloss under strings of coloured lights , crowds of bikers guzzling frogburgers , country music wailing from loudspeakers ; we could have been on Hampstead Heath on Bank Holiday night . |
| 23 | Some routes were planned , climbing from valleys to moorland pastures and shielings for summer grazing . |
| 24 | Jealousy is often brought about by a feeling of lack : lack of love ; lack of understanding from others ; lack of career advancement ; lack of money ; lack of opportunity - we could go on indefinitely . |
| 25 | They were persons who had been brain-washed by years of experience of disengaging from colonies and saw Northern Ireland as another external colony from which Great Britain was destined to disengage in order to hand it back to the natives whom they assumed were the republican Irish of the island as a whole . |
| 26 | In The Outsiders , the gang , their friends and rivals spend their time mugging and jumping people , stealing and robbing from shops . |
| 27 | Well , I went along to Street and this chap was hammering away , and the people were swearing from windows , and I realized the chap was mental . |
| 28 | A ‘ managerial revolution ’ has taken place which has resulted in effective control over industry passing from owners to managers . |
| 29 | Half concealed by shadow the woman was a mire of shifting forms — face blurred , body smeared , pulses of iridescence , slow now , passing from toes to head . |
| 30 | Outside , he headed for the bridge and there , halfway across , he came at last to a halt , with traffic rushing past , the river gleaming below and the city reaching away in an infinite complex parade of shining white and pearly grey with light snapping from windows and cars . |