Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv prt] from [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we were driving down from the border towards Beni Abbes , we quaked every time we saw police or soldiers . |
| 2 | They were shrinking back from the basement door . |
| 3 | People were climbing down from the truck and seemed to be forming another queue . |
| 4 | Other main activities related to accidents were getting up from a chair , walking unaided and getting into bed . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Three rugby fans who were flying back from a match in Dublin were killed in the accident . |
| 7 | Three rugby fans who were flying back from a match in Dublin were killed in the accident . |
| 8 | Black rain clouds were riding up from the south , killing the light and making the day seem almost over . |
| 9 | Some figures were coming up from the road to meet him , a girl and a couple of boys . |
| 10 | All went well until we were approaching Ramsgate and about to cross ahead of two coasters that were coming up from the south . |
| 11 | Writs were coming in from every direction . |
| 12 | They were coming down from the Quarry , bigger engines . |
| 13 | Because when we were coming back from the park at er , no not the park where was we ? |
| 14 | An NCO clutching a grenade marched up to the barrier and Kahane told him that they were coming back from the front and were in a hurry . |
| 15 | One evening when they were coming back from the hunt , he pretended to be someone else and , all alone , jumped on Albuin pretending that he was going to steal by violence the horse Albuin was mounted on . |
| 16 | Yes , worried folk were coming along from the Tower to Billingsgate , some carrying a few possessions . |
| 17 | And they had also made guesses as to what might be possible if the deuterium and oxygen gases that were bubbling off from the cell could be recombined and their latent energy recovered and used as heat . |
| 18 | Thick fingers of the viscous substance were reaching up from the surface towards her starsuit 's hips . |
| 19 | Huge black clouds were rolling by from the south and the ghastly light that preceded the storm disappeared under an advancing curtain of rain . |
| 20 | But Seb was struggling up from the table . |
| 21 | He lifted a hand off his cup in weary salute to one of his sergeants. a very dark Scot in a crumpled grey suit who was walking over from the counter , and the man altered course to sit opposite him . |
| 22 | The next minute she was leaping up from the bed , striding across the room and snatching the door open . |
| 23 | The blood was oozing out from the tip of his boot and his face had turned the usual grey colour of the soldier who had been wounded . |
| 24 | ‘ I was driving back from a conference in Norwich , and I wanted to see the church in any case . |
| 25 | Although a fair breeze was picking up from the south-east , the harbour was aquarium calm , and the poignancy of this departure from a fairytale kingdom in our pirate prahu was marred , alas , by making so little headway that an hour and a half after cast-off we were still within spitting distance of the dock . |
| 26 | Late in the night , towards moonset , Hazel was looking up from a cut where they were crouching to a little bank above . |
| 27 | Sitting safe in the big tree , hidden within the protective myriad of bough , branch and leaf , he was submerged in a greenish half-light filtered through layer upon layer of natural growth , and he was looking out from the dimming or dappling shelter of his high cave into the dazzle of a rare summer brightness beyond . |
| 28 | She saw what was going on from a school bus . |
| 29 | She timed this operation very carefully , applying the glue just as her father was getting up from the breakfast table . |
| 30 | Three days later I was limping back from the village and was about half a mile from home when I saw a movement in the hedge . |