Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [v-ing] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leonora kept her temper with difficulty , feeling ridiculous with her legs dangling from the high stool . |
| 2 | With her ears ringing from the massive blast of the weapon she threw herself down and crawled across to the wall by the front door , able to see back through the sitting-room to the kitchen . |
| 3 | This relief , it may be added , was matched for a while by the exemption of some forty villages in the West Riding in 1319 , and of 128 villages in the North Riding in 1322 , from lay taxes because of the scale of their poverty resulting from the Scottish raids . |
| 4 | Nigel Hicks at Panmure Gordon feels that the market will consolidate around the three main players , with their share rising from the current 57% to around 70% . |
| 5 | He could still make out the huge man-shape , lying face down , its outline glowing from the residual embers of the phosphorus , like a blackened , smoking tree trunk . |
| 6 | The back seat , its padding springing from the slashed plastic , had been ripped out and hurled to one side . |
| 7 | But its brightness was dimming quickly and its shafts withdrawing from the near buildings and then further and further away across the roofs , so that she ran out into it to catch some before it should go beyond her reach . |
| 8 | More impressive are the Japanese manufacturers whose cars dating from the early Eighties can run on unleaded without adjustment . |
| 9 | ‘ You look a little distraite , ’ he observed drily , his eyes moving from the rumpled strands of blonde hair escaping from her plait to the finger-marks and the damp champagne patch on the front of her dress . |
| 10 | The test is whether the plaintiff has acquired an intangible property right for his product deriving from the distinctive nature of this material which is recognized by the market . |
| 11 | It takes little effort of the imagination to put oneself in Theo 's shoes , and feel the grey , correct , judicious side of his character flinching from the terrifying sincerity of Vincent 's outpourings . |
| 12 | No less distinguished was his achievement as a portrait painter , his approach extending from the satirical to the deeply affectionate . |
| 13 | All these sights and sounds alone would have fascinated Joseph 's young mind , but the murmured talk of deities and devils beyond his imaginings coming from the grave-faced little mandarin pacing at his side established the walled city of palaces lastingly in his mind as a place of deep mystery and enchantment , and by the time Tran Van Hieu delivered him to the governor 's aide outside the Palace of Perfect Concord he was almost ready to believe he would see a live white tiger curled up contentedly with a blue dragon around the emperor 's feet . |
| 14 | Cain 's resignation on Aug. 7 was in response to pressure from within his party arising from the severe financial difficulties experienced by his government after the failure of several state-owned enterprises . |