Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [adv prt] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Judging by the front of it , the house was quite large , for it showed three windows each side of the front door , the same above them , and a row of small windows jutting out from the roof . |
| 32 | Many have multiple thin trunks growing up from the ground — they 've obviously been coppiced in the past . |
| 33 | EPRDF forces moving in from the west began to reach the suburbs of Addis Ababa on the weekend of May 25-26 . |
| 34 | It is possible to find the origin of the synapses ending on cells of the type Hubel and Wiesel recorded from , and it is an amazing fact that 80 per cent or more of their excitatory input comes from other cortical cells , and less than 20 per cent from the nerve fibres coming up from the eye . |
| 35 | Two men crouched against each other , bums stuck out , arms swinging up from the grass to the grip in salmon-like curves . |
| 36 | This mill was built of brick instead of stone like the Old Mill in the village , and the original six-storey building survives among the extensions built around it , with Arkwright 's peculiar staircase projection with Venetian and small semi-circular windows standing out from the sea of square-headed windows on either side , and with a cupola above . |
| 37 | There is a comfy lounge , a bar and a stylish TV room and the traditional style dining-room boasts an amazing rococo fantasy of cherubs and angels looking down from the building 's original ceiling . |
| 38 | They other kind of soldier was black with little white florets growing out from the head . |
| 39 | The first sailing from the port after midnight on the New Year was taken as the official start of the Single Market ; the first piece of freight on board was actually an unidentified light van and trailer — the driver no doubt blissfully unaware that he had made history — which , along with several vehicles turning round from the inbound convoy , sneaked back on board the 01.00 return sailing of the Pride of Kent while the official welcoming party was still in progress at the other end of the port . |
| 40 | There were several hot-water pipes leading off from the stove , heated rails where wet clothes were hung to dry and plates of food were left to keep warm after serving . |
| 41 | The sun comes out , and each boy is cartooned by his ironic shadow , and the willows become black hands clutching up from the snow . |
| 42 | As the church clock struck twelve , they listened to the heavy notes ringing out from the church tower . |
| 43 | The engine compartment had to be outside the cockpit for acoustic and thermal insulation so we introduced a vertical backlight for good rear visibility and blended it into the fins sloping down from the roof , which gave a certain lightness to the rear pillars , This solution has become a constant feature on all Pininfarina Ferraris up to the Testarossa . |
| 44 | The eastern states say they badly need an extra 4,500 judges , 1,000 state prosecutors and 1,300 lawyers — not least to deal with the hundreds of thousands of property claims flooding in from the west . |
| 45 | Six Broadstairs matrons attempting to shop at Marchesi 's the confectioners , two errand boys buying bloaters from Mr Goodman the fishmonger , a few afternoon revellers strolling out from the Dolphin Inn and an eager group from the Tourist Cycling Club staying at the Balmoral Bijou Hotel found themselves swept along with the crowd as they pursued their leaders down Harbour Street under the ancient York Gate ( which being without specific Dickensian associations hardly received a glance ) . |
| 46 | That chill in the air : there were black clouds moving over from the left . |
| 47 | The stain lightened slowly to reveal lowering clouds moving in from the north ; the sea became less ink-like too , and showed itself as a mess of enormous and ever-moving swells picked out here and there by off-white skeins of spray . |
| 48 | I have an army of women coming in from the village to do all that . |
| 49 | She was leaning by the window , watching the first clouds creeping up from the horizon to challenge the sun , when the door opened . |
| 50 | All things have drawbacks , however , and the sulphurous fumes wafting down from the crater were distinctly smelly , and the occupants of the tunnel awoke in the morning with headaches and mouths that tasted like the bottom of a parrot 's cage . |
| 51 | When it came to practice , the weather was appalling , with low clouds streaming in from the sea and rain falling constantly . |
| 52 | The likeliest explanation is that Greek settlers moving in from the south gradually came to dominate the many hill tribes of the region — much as , a little later , Chinese moving into what is now Vietnam came to dominate the local tribes there . |
| 53 | It was neat and clean , the smell of paint and thinners taking over from the smell of straw and apples . |
| 54 | 4 THE MOTHERBOARD : These are usually connected to the PC by a couple of screws and plastic standoffs poking up from the bottom of the case . |