Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [v-ing] [adv prt] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The functional association of two domains can then be interpreted through a hierarchical search extending down from the initial checking for the intersection of geometric domains , through an entity or edge condition check , into that for the relationships of the sub-surfaces contained within the spatial intersection . |
| 2 | The plates are not permanent : they are constantly being replenished by liquid rock gushing up from the Earth 's mantle ( the subsurface layer ) at the long submarine mountain ranges known as the mid-ocean ridges . |
| 3 | I sat at the kitchen table , staring at the blind white blankness in front of me , and slowly , like a clear spring welling up from the common earth , the poem rose and spread and filled me , unstoppable as flood water , technique unknotting even as it ran , like snags rolled away on the flood . |
| 4 | There are two periods of Romanesque in Spain : the basic Spanish product , of buildings erected before the great southward expansion in the late eleventh century and a transitional style of Late Romanesque of twelfth and thirteenth century work , resulting both from this expansion and from the French influence coming in from the north-east . |
| 5 | He flicked the light on , and the greenish glow reflecting back from the tiled interior showed it to be empty of human occupation . |
| 6 | The vertebrate fossils could thus be arranged in a historical sequence running through from the most ancient to the most recent geological periods . |
| 7 | It is a gargantuan language spilling out from the talker who once he opens his mouth has no intention of shutting it again . |
| 8 | She could feel tears of pure joy welling up from the tightness in her chest . |
| 9 | She had a picture of sooty red brick , quiet , empty streets with grey winter haze at the end of them , little corner shops with paper decorations left over from Christmas , gritty smoke blowing down from the chimneys . |
| 10 | It 's a strange sensation levelling out from the climb at six hundred feet and trimming into the glide before passing the end of the runway . |
| 11 | Wherever army ants go , they leave a chemical trail for other ants in their group to follow , creating a huge foraging column radiating out from the nest . |
| 12 | And now , Ian Wharton , now that you are no longer the subject of this cautionary tale , merely its object , now that you are just another unproductive atom staring out from the windows of a branded monad , now that I 've got you where I want you , let the wild rumpus begin . |
| 13 | Connie Winn , an old inhabitant , was once in the dining-room of her home and there was a terrible noise coming up from the kitchen : saucepans appeared to be clattering unduly and there was an occasional crash of broken crockery : |
| 14 | New York was swathed in sunlight and the heat would have been stifling had it not been for a gentle easterly breeze blowing in from the Atlantic . |
| 15 | Anyway , I have no access to it , and have to cart metres of black metal piping back from the town and sweat and labour over it , bending it and cutting it and boring it and crimping it and bending it again , straining with it in the vice until the bench and shed creak with my efforts . |
| 16 | It was like a ‘ ghost ship ’ — he used those words — the three masts standing black against the white of the low , snow-mantled line of the shore opposite and that enormously long bowsprit jutting out from the wooden hull of the ship ‘ like a lance ’ . |
| 17 | I suddenly saw a burning plane coming down from the sky … with its nose pointing towards the apartment buildings . |
| 18 | Cor you 're a long time coming back from the Rose and Crown , do n't forget that 's where we were |
| 19 | He stood silent beside the sofa , the black disc of the revolver trained on her , his face half in shadow from the harsh light shining down from the ceiling . |
| 20 | Dyson let the clutch in with a belated jerk which brought some hard and heavy object tumbling down from the dashboard to hit Bill Waddy on the knee and roll away out of sight beneath the front seats . |
| 21 | There was a nice cool breeze wafting up from the river as she settled herself in the shelter of the huge willow tree , at the water 's edge . |
| 22 | The following morning there was a cool breeze blowing down from the hills ; the sky was the colour of attar of roses . |
| 23 | Next time he found his mark ; an incautious infantryman looking out from the window he had recently left . |
| 24 | The apple sat on a small ledge jutting out from the wall . |
| 25 | For example , a neutral statement following on from the sentence about Mary and her teacher was Mary heard some birds singing outside the classroom window . |
| 26 | Mick Miller , Marketing Director of the Museum , said : ‘ We have been privileged to have provided facilities for this prestigious project following on from the successful completion of our own N7 . |
| 27 | The wedge of light lying on the open stairway leading down from the hatch fanned out and a voice draped in icicles called : |
| 28 | With a fair breeze blowing in from the sea , we kept the majestic peninsula in sight as we headed along the coast path . |
| 29 | Below it flows the Dorn , known to the Saxons as the Milk , from the cloudiness of its water after rain : and one still sees it as the Saxons saw it a thousand years ago , as I saw it a few minutes ago in the thin rain drifting down from the Cotswolds . |
| 30 | The streets ran in a regular criss-cross pattern sloping up from the Railway Works which lay behind a high camouflaged wall . |