Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv prt] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've made him lie with his hands behind his head , which is a trick they probably picked from a Miami Vice afternoon repeat , except it looks stupid when the guy 's hairy legs are sticking out from the tail of his shirt . |
| 2 | But they are unable to process this and obviously that will be different for children at different stages of their development erm younger children being particularly susceptible to the sort of atmosphere around them , and if they are picking up from the adults around them , be that through the media or within the context of their everyday lives , that there is something dangerous and disturbing going on , then they are obviously going to reflect that unease in their behaviour . |
| 3 | Well , as usual it 's all there in the papers that Mr has prepared for us if anybody cares to read them , and you will notice , the national non-domestic rate , the business rate as it 's known , the contribution that the government are passing on from the business rates paid in Wiltshire , back to the people of Wiltshire is dropping by seven point nine million pounds , it 's being cut from a hundred and eighteen point six to a hundred and nine point three million pounds , and again this is pound for pound . |
| 4 | We 're walking back from the shops — me and Marie — and we stop for a bit to look at the lights in the electric shop . |
| 5 | Their fortunes will become more divided than before : some are waking up from the party with happier memories than others . |
| 6 | Burned by their experience of the volatility of the capital markets , many leading banks such as Bank of America and Lloyds are pulling back from the periphery of their systems to defend their home bases . |
| 7 | The arrows in the drawing are moving back from the boundary of the information field to the centre . |
| 8 | Ian had been travelling down from the States and through Mexico . |
| 9 | Well , I mean , it 's a sticky wicket for them anyway politically and I suspect as with a lot of legislation quite recently they simply have n't spent the time in committee and in consultation to iron out the details and they 've come unstuck when it 's come into the public domain and it 's been easy for people to throw up the paradoxes that are coming up from the legislation , the moral paradoxes . |
| 10 | The response certainly illustrates the transition to a less " intransitive " pedagogy and more " interpersonal style " : Questions are coming up from the students . |
| 11 | There 's a poster beside one of the machines — ‘ DO N'T DISREGARD — REPLACE THE GUARD ’ , it says … you have to laugh — there are no guards , they were taken off the machines to up the production , they only put them on when the big bosses are coming over from the States to inspect the place — the place really gets cleaned up then . |
| 12 | All farms have rats and mice but in recent years they have been coming through from the barn into the house and getting into the furniture . |
| 13 | Good idea about 606 , I ca n't do it though I 'll be travelling back from the game ! |
| 14 | One more now , as long as they do go out because erm Oh I 've got one that will be coming back from the careers service soon , erm he 's supposed to be ringing tomorrow morning . |
| 15 | Although the recent decisions on the Channel Tunnel and the PBKAL ( Paris-Brussels-Cologne-Amsterdam-London ) line are signs that Britain may be coming in from the cold , the country is still seen as an isolated outpost of a European transport network in which the main traffic flows will run north to south linking the industrial areas of France , Germany and Italy . |
| 16 | PENSIONERS in East Cleveland could be coming in from the cold as far as weather payments are concerned . |
| 17 | An hour later , the second time zone results should be coming in from the Mid-West . |
| 18 | fears I er I 'm coming back from the forces I went into the main job , taking over from the previous scheduled clerk by breaking the schedules and the duties . |
| 19 | In the blocks , I thought , a sort of interior fog will be creeping out from the corners of the ceilings and under the beds . |
| 20 | Tigridias are taking over from the lilies while geraniums , argyranthemums , lime-green nicotianias , eucomis and trailing blue convolvulus have filled out rapidly and blend well with the softer colours of the herbs |
| 21 | It 's back — Oz Clarke 's Wine Guide 1993 returns for its ninth year with a prediction : that Australian winemakers who know ‘ how to take a pile of sows ’ ears and turn them into silk purses ’ are taking over from the vineyards of Europe . |
| 22 | ‘ Maybe I 've been too long with this screwy outfit ; I 'm beginning to believe that stuff they are handing out from the New York office . |
| 23 | When we were driving down from the border towards Beni Abbes , we quaked every time we saw police or soldiers . |
| 24 | While they were walking back from the Huddersfield discotheque , it suddenly dawned on Fred and Arthur that they had eaten three main meals that day instead of two . |
| 25 | They were shrinking back from the basement door . |
| 26 | People were climbing down from the truck and seemed to be forming another queue . |
| 27 | This worked very well , but in 1988 people were pushing in from the sides instead of joining the queues , and tempers were becoming frayed and the situation somewhat dangerous as people trampled over the numerous electricity cables and water pipes . |
| 28 | His head had an odd tilt or cock to it , set on the shoulders as if he were looking up from the bars of a drop-handled bike . |
| 29 | But now the men were sprinting back from the ramparts . |
| 30 | Alexei glanced idly down , and he saw that a company of troopers of the guard — C'zaki by their dress , under the command of a Yek officer — were marching up from the direction of the gate , picking up the sentries who had completed their tour of duty , dropping off the night watch . |