Example sentences of "[v-ing] from a " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the street outside the Marriott , in the rather rum section of town the locals affectionately have dubbed Pigalle Place , we had encountered Malgosia , a twenty-three-year-old prostitute , disembarking from a car . |
| 2 | But a nice young man who wanted a bit of chivvying from a jolly girl-friend . |
| 3 | For me , going on a strict vegan diet where all animal products were banned , where there was no place for tea or coffee , where even fish , eggs , salt and sugar were forbidden , was like leaping from a warm bed into the icy seas of Antarctica . |
| 4 | A BUXOM woman stunned pensioner Jack Cookson — by leaping from a car and flashing her boobs . |
| 5 | I held her to me as we fell across the bed , feeling her lithe life-force twitching against me as beautiful as a rainbow trout , leaping from a mill race into my outstretched arms . |
| 6 | But he went for it : two dolphins leaping from a sea turned dark red at sunset . |
| 7 | CLEVELAND police are today hoping to interview a man thought to have made an attempted suicide bid by leaping from a Stockton bridge . |
| 8 | He was a boy again , leaping from a rock into one of the sweet rivers of Yorkshire . |
| 9 | Also under examination is the feasibility of a 35 to 40 knot inshore lifeboat , launching from a slipway , davit or off a beach . |
| 10 | In urging against the Aristotelian realists that ‘ general and universal , belong not to the real existence of things ; but are the inventions and creatures of the understanding ’ , he is , of course , reaffirming from a different angle his rejection of their ‘ forms ’ , and their talk of the possibility of there being ‘ real ’ definitions of things . |
| 11 | In a second the blaze was over , the mixture and the wasp a single black lump of scarred and blistered debris cooling from a bright yellow heat . |
| 12 | ‘ For this reason , purchasing from brochures or purchasing from a system demonstration on-site is simply inadequate . |
| 13 | In we saw the Health Authority choosing not to purchase services directly from the N H S for their but purchasing from a voluntary stroke private , privately motivated organization . |
| 14 | When purchasing from a group , arrangements must be made to calculate and clear intra-group accounts . |
| 15 | They 're part of the changing retail scene which ranges from the modern shopping centres at one end of the spectrum to squat shops , short term let shops and car boot sales at the other , for the other less source of er retailing , source of purchasing from a decreasing number of people erm trade in car boot sales are subject to the same controls as high street traders basically be product safety , erm , but as well as those problems we are increasingly coming across other problems in particularly counterfeit goods , goods like that on sale at car boot sales , quite attractive , wholly illegal and it wo n't be out for about six or nine months yet . |
| 16 | But the growing body of evidence that the onset of massive winds occurs right up to the dividing line suggests that a phase transition is occurring from a hot , magnetically confined corona to a cool , open , massive wind outflow . |
| 17 | An alternative explanation is that familial infection is occurring from a point source . |
| 18 | Indeed , it is possible that clinicians would treat cases which they find particularly interesting or challenging from a clinical viewpoint , rather than those which offer the most returns ( in terms of health improvement ) in relation to the cost . |
| 19 | Whether we take the retail prices index minus mortgage interest payments or producer prices , the rate of inflation has declined sharply in the past year and I suspect that the underlying measures of inflation will continue to decline in the next year — I can tell the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) , who is interrupting from a sedentary position , that the underlying rate of inflation compares extremely well with the position under the Labour Government of which he was a member . |
| 20 | Although I do not wholeheartedly agree with the view the author takes of the mechanical world of the train being somehow better than that of nature , I can still find it interesting and thought inducing from a philosophical angle . |
| 21 | There is , however , a large variety of killings which lie above that line but below the line demarcating murder : a killing in which D knew there was a risk of death , but was held not to have intended death or grievous bodily harm , would fall within involuntary manslaughter and might justify a high sentence ; whereas a killing in which D pushed a person during an argument in the street and the person fell backwards , cracking his head on the kerb and dying from a brain haemorrhage , might also fall within involuntary manslaughter and might justify a low sentence . |
| 22 | On a stormy night at the beginning of May he watched by the bedside of his brother-in-law , Robert Lovell , as he lay dying from a putrid fever , and tried to comfort Lovell 's young wife Mary , who was listening frantically to her husband 's ‘ loud , deep , unintermitted groans ’ during his final hours . |
| 23 | Cigarette smoking can double our risk of dying from a heart attack and heavy smokers are even more likely to die young . |
| 24 | After two years it was found that the fish eaters had up to 30 per cent less chance of dying from a second heart attack than those who had been told nothing about fish . |
| 25 | Those aged above 60 have a pedestrian casualty rate per head of population which is nearly double that of the 20–39 age group , whilst their greater likelihood of dying from a particular accident gives them a fatality rate six and one half times higher . |
| 26 | Four months later , on 2 February 1979 , Sid Vicious finally shot one red light too many , dying from a drugs overdose , naked — so the popular press reported — and in the arms of his latest girlfriend . |
| 27 | A PREGNANT wife returned from a family night out to find her husband dying from a stab wound to his chest . |
| 28 | I have n't heard of anyone dying from a broken ankle — that 's if it is broken . ’ |
| 29 | Natalie is dying from a rare form of cancer that has attacked her nervous system and is spreading to her bones . |
| 30 | It would appear they carried on trading from a different address some time beyond that date , though exactly when they stopped has yet to be established . |