Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [adv prt] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was going to come charging down from the top of a sand-hill . |
| 2 | Even as I write , my heart is being ‘ roasted ’ because of the pounding music beat coming down from the flat above me . |
| 3 | As he entered the paved courtyard the rain came whipping in from the sea , lashing against the car and obliterating everything . |
| 4 | A group of shaven-headed yobbos , with tattooed cheeks and nationalistic leanings , observed this from the upper deck and came swarming down from the bus . |
| 5 | Well , your mother came rushing in from the car with a rare display of energy and snatched it from the fellow 's hands . |
| 6 | Connon 's voice came drifting in from the hall . |
| 7 | Mrs Joyce , the cook , came panting up from the kitchen with the two maid-servants behind her , her hands and wrists covered in flour , while Uncle Walter and his sister peeped wide-eyed from behind the curtains . |
| 8 | Some of the children came running over from the village . |
| 9 | He came running in from the dispensary , pulling up his trousers , still held up by his MCC tie , the end of his stethoscope bouncing off his fat tummy . |
| 10 | As the 22 men in the three boats had just taken their respective stations , a young girl came running down from the village to the shore in breathless haste . |
| 11 | He came running back from the grave the day we reached here , saying someone had been tampering , and we could scarcely believe it . |
| 12 | The heavy sound of the door-knocker came beating up from the bottom of the house . |
| 13 | The present owner of Miss Havisham 's house told of a fisherman she had met in Broadstairs one day who remembered ‘ Old Charley a-coming flying down from the cliff with a hop , skip and jump , with his hair all flying about ’ . |
| 14 | Red flares began coming up from the airfield , but the first bombers were committed : they had nowhere to go but down . |
| 15 | Erm what I 'm trying to get is you 've got to start backing up from the sale er the objective of that call is not to close the sale . |
| 16 | As he stood on the stage he felt pouring out from the audience that most British of reflexes : the will for the underdog to win . |
| 17 | When filming a combat he pans round two adversaries so that , as each in turn assumes the aggressive role , he is observed moving in from the right . |
| 18 | He told us on more than one occasion that he could not himself contemplate coming down from the House of Lords and denuding it of himself as well as its leader . |
| 19 | Every time we struck a chord people would come tearing up from the bar to tell us to turn that fucking racket down . |
| 20 | Mrs Stocks would come rushing in from the wash-house in a lather of soapsuds and thrills at having found the Cap'n 's blackamoor wandering in the yard . |
| 21 | Next to the Met Office was the teleprinter room where yards of paper would come spewing out from the machine at regular intervals , bearing coded weather reports from all the other Met Stations in the United Kingdom and a few weather ships in the Atlantic , and these had to be painstakingly plotted on blank charts of the British Isles . |
| 22 | He remembered staring out from the nest site on a clear cold morning and seeing a line of grey-blue a few miles to the north which they said was the sea . |
| 23 | ‘ Well ? ’ he said again , and she looked at him , anger taking over from the sadness his offer had brought . |
| 24 | In these lonely hours , sitting in Brick Lane in the East End or Lamb Lane in Bradford , vivid memories come flooding in from the past , from the life before this semi-existence . |
| 25 | I squelched across tiny burns running in black channels of peat , and stood looking down from the hillside on to the grey roofs of Scaup Farm . |
| 26 | Abel comes running out from the kitchen . |