Example sentences of "[n mass] [v-ing] [adv prt] from [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Entertainment would come in the form of the funfair , races and sports for the children , sideshows and tents packed with crafts and fancy merchandise , pleasure flights in light aircraft taking off from the company runway , and then , much later in the evening , the grand firework display that would wind up the day 's events .
2 Many of the stories were based on rumour , although others , like the ones about A&R men flying all over Europe to see them and high-ranking company staff jetting in from the States , were in fact true .
3 Chief Whip Richard Ryder anxiously counted the numbers of MPs trooping back from the lobbies .
4 It is the vision of people looking up from the depths , de profundis , from the ‘ dark shadow of death ’ and of despair , and seeing a new light : ‘ unlooked for , glittering and bright ; and the people of Middle-earth beheld it from afar and wondered , and they took it for a sign , and called it Gil-Estel , the Star of High Hope ’ .
5 People coming up from the beach were carrying their shoes , walking barefoot on the hot tarmac paths .
6 If people coming down from the North wearing British Coal Rugby League jumpers think they 're travelling away from home and the event is rather special , imagine the feelings of an Australian as he goes up that long concourse to the Vatican of the inflated rubber bladder .
7 I was able to talk to the German customer and the people on the floor , who are excessively worried about the number of people coming in from the East , not only East Germany but they 're very , very worried about people coming in from Eastern Europe , and secondly there was so much East European food that was for sale in Germany at very low prices and there 's food that used to go to the Soviet Union .
8 I saw people running down from the house , I heard some shots , but that was all .
9 I saw people springing up from the ground and letting down ropes out of the sky , boarding red buses , jabbering in English .
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