Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [v-ing] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Music and laughter was spilling from the grand chamber . |
| 2 | A few drops of rain were falling from the overheated sky . |
| 3 | The perfume that had breathed sweetness over the cool stream was coming from the delicious brown girl . |
| 4 | Early in the New Year the organisation was moving from the Dickensian building in the city centre which it had inhabited for over fifty years to a new purpose-built high-rise office block south of the river , an area not long cleared of old slum dwellings and deratinised . |
| 5 | A wisp of smoke was rising from the other side of a clump of bushes on the edge of one hayfield where the hay had been stacked . |
| 6 | Firstly the United States competition was changing from the old Bunch to a new collection of competitors targeted more at specific markets . |
| 7 | The music was coming from the closed door . |
| 8 | At independence in 1980 , the country was suffering from the limited coverage of the education system under the white minority regime . |