Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [v-ing] from [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her palms and knees were bleeding from thorns in the sand . |
| 2 | Like most defectors , Lyalin was suffering from delusions of grandeur and it was hard to judge whether he had been reading too much of Pincher 's material or books by Le Queux dating from the turn of the century . |
| 3 | Blood was spouting from cuts on my right hand , and my left foot ached a bit and felt strange — no more . |
| 4 | The man 's body was hanging from swings in the Panton Road playground , Hoole , Chester . |
| 5 | WORRIED mum Pamela Pilbro spent three weeks searching for her 20-year-old son Philip — unaware that his decomposing body was hanging from rafters in the attic . |
| 6 | Already officers were returning from enquiries with completed interview-forms and Lucy Lane was going through them as they came in . |
| 7 | While this may mean that disabled people are shifting from institutions to ghettoes , it nevertheless heralds an age when disabled people are not to be cured as such . |
| 8 | MMT Computing AS Ltd , the only one to deal in a vertical market — AS/400 software — saw a lot of new work because , Haines said , many users are converting from mainframes to mid-range systems . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | By the time fire crews arrived on the scene , flames were shooting from vents on the roof of the building and a huge pall of smoke was billowing out of it . |
| 11 | Padding is moving from shoulders to chest — yes , bosoms are back ! |