Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [v-ing] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the area of youth policy , as in many other areas of welfare , the philanthropic tradition was incorporated into the social service state which was emerging from the Liberal reform programme . |
| 2 | The lorry , which was coming from the local gravel-pit , drew up , and the Arab driver put out his head : ‘ Where are you going ? ’ he asked in French . |
| 3 | And there 'd been quite a number there , obviously in that burns unit , who were suffering from the same type of er injury . |
| 4 | Theda demanded , indignation warring with the hurt she was experiencing from the dreadful blow that had been dealt her , the vicious attack to which she had been subjected . |
| 5 | Stella could n't tell whether she was acting or not — she looked dreadful , as if she was suffering from the worst sort of headache , and yet she kept watching herself in the glass , turning her face this way and that , peering forward to follow the track of a tear rolling down her cheek . |
| 6 | The next time he saw her she was emerging from the very lift he was waiting for . |
| 7 | With her thoughts far away and her eyes fixed on the distant horizon , she did not notice where she was going — and as the tall , broad-shouldered man who was coming from the opposite direction was too deeply absorbed in his own reflections to be aware of his surroundings , there was a sudden abrupt collision . |
| 8 | Although we both knew that we were acting from the best possible motives , I argued , other people were always ready to place a malicious interpretation on their neighbours ' doings and it might therefore be better to wait before breaking the news . |
| 9 | laughter so that by the time we came to do the five practical ev exercises you know everybody was in a very relaxed and jolly mood but I think that 's was it 's about but from the results that we were getting from the practical exercises clearly what he said had taken root you know roll key words , roll them around in your mind er try running through letters of the alphabet to match up with your key word chains and you know if if if the word is ball try roll see if you can get it to rhyme and ultimately the creme de la creme is if you can actually get the title of a song or |
| 10 | and then they computer people , and it , both the firms have gone bust , and each one was suing from the other for , er , insurance |
| 11 | The four opposition parties announced on Nov. 13 that they were withdrawing from the parliamentary elections set for Dec. 8 in protest at the failure of their demand for a new voters ' register . |
| 12 | They were retreating from the French attack , but they were not running . |
| 13 | However , in this case , it would not be necessary to determine that all the quanta came from the same direction : it would be enough to observe that they all arrived within a very short time interval to be reasonably confident that they were coming from the same burst . |
| 14 | Followers of the shotokai style broke away from the parent group of shotokan because they believed that it was deviating from the traditional teachings laid down by Funakoshi . |
| 15 | On Aug. 6 , the rival Independent National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( INPFL ) , led by Prince Yormie Johnson , announced that it was withdrawing from the interim government , accusing Sawyer of giving senior posts to people from parties " which have failed the Liberian people in the past " . |
| 16 | He was bleeding from the lower body and moaning . ’ |
| 17 | President Roh Tae Woo announced on Sept. 18 that he was resigning from the Democratic Liberal Party ( DLP ) , the ruling political grouping which he had led until August 1992 [ see p. 39050 ] , and within which he currently held the post of honorary president . |
| 18 | He was smarting from the clerical opposition that had been marshaled against his nonsectarian charter for Cornell University . |
| 19 | Charles E. ( Buddy ) Roemer , the Governor of Louisiana , announced on March 11 that he was defecting from the Democratic to the Republican Party . |
| 20 | And William began to run from the approaching cart , which was piled high with the bodies of the plague victims , and as he ran the streets became the familiar streets of his childhood and he knew that all the time he was running from the terrible cart he was getting closer and closer to the dark house by the railway embankment with its shuttered windows and its locked door , and that this was more terrible to him than anything in his history books . |
| 21 | He chose the time carefully , lurked and caught Dersingham as he was coming from the stable yard after having driven himself out . |