Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [adv prt] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many gardeners believe that an informal pool should be planted liberally , with waterlilies obscuring areas of the water surface , and reeds and rushes tumbling in from the garden . |
| 2 | The sea wall ended , steps going down from the promenade and burying themselves in sand . |
| 3 | And there are steps going down from the drawing room , and up from the dining room . |
| 4 | Initially , he had much sympathy from the British trade union movement , funds pouring in from the mainland , including almost £pound94,000 collected by the Trades Union Congress . |
| 5 | These rings could be the result of surface waves spreading out from the impact through the solid surface , or the result of a succession of wall slumps in a once deeper basin . |
| 6 | And then they had the adits coming down from the top . |
| 7 | Since the 1920's Berlin has been a city encountered through images : Doblin , Pabst and Isherwood ; the diabolic glamour of Nazism ; Year Zero ; the Airlift ; John Kennedy and spies coming in from the cold ; the generation of " 68 , the stylized desperation of the punk underground , and angels made corporeal . |
| 8 | The taut legs standing out from the body at all angles , some hideously broken like twigs thrown carelessly on a bonfire , others still moving feebly . |
| 9 | Under the scheme five main roads fanning out from the centre : Leith Walk , and Lanark , Calder , Corstorphine and Morningside Roads will become clearways with all parking banned during peak periods . |
| 10 | The man with the ‘ Go Dawgs ’ hat saw our rebel flag at the spreaders and let out an approving yell that sent two gulls squawking up from the garbage cans behind McIllvanney 's office . |
| 11 | The first three bays leading round from the W door are by Kryštof Dientzenhofer and the remainder of the nave to the crossing is the work of his son , K. I. Dientzenhofer . |
| 12 | The CPR created no fewer than 600 new communities with villages , towns , and farming settlements growing out from the railway stations . |
| 13 | And it 'll be a cool afternoon , temperatures around nine degrees celsius , that 's forty eight fahrenheit , with light winds coming in from the east . |
| 14 | He watched Maggie bump the tall girl with her hip , then add , ‘ There 's a gang of parched Arabs coming in from the desert ; see to them . ’ |
| 15 | Strong winds gusting up from the South . |
| 16 | At first , I thought it was spilt wine but then it spread and I noticed little splashes coming down from the ceiling above . |
| 17 | At the same time the building of what were to become bastions , towers standing out from the line of the wall , enabled defenders to fire all round , and in particular laterally , against approaching men or machines , as the design for Bodiam Castle in Sussex , which , like Cooling Castle in Kent , was built at the time of the French invasion scares of the 1380s , clearly shows . |
| 18 | Swanage suffered badly during the last war , chiefly from ‘ tip-and-run ’ raids by bombers swooping in from the sea . |
| 19 | It must be clear that the spatial location identified by here in each of these expressions could be interpreted as a series of concentric rings spreading out from the speaker and encompassing different amounts of physical space , but the interpretation of the spatial range of the expression here on any particular occasion of use will have to be sought in the context of what the speaker is talking about . |
| 20 | And in the middle of that , they thought that perhaps an ornamental lighting column with sort of , with lights coming out from the top of it just to make it a bit more fancy . |
| 21 | The smell was terrible , despite the fresh breezes wafting in from the river . |
| 22 | This Easter weekend proves it yet again , with traffic queues stretching back from the West Country halfway to London and Birmingham . |
| 23 | The erm the views coming back from the consultant were obviously er so follow occasions but not dramatically so . |
| 24 | Erm and we find in the office that we get lots of forms coming in from the Paymaster General asking us to confirm that mister X is employed you know on a on a part time basis . |
| 25 | Ships driven by revolving metal pillars sticking up from the deck sounds like Victorian science fiction . |
| 26 | ‘ or was likely to be caused to persons in or on that vehicle ( or trailer ) or on a road ’ 'Likely to be caused' means potentially dangerous such as sharp edges jutting out from the body of a motor vehicle ; a loose driver 's seat which could cause loss of control of the car ; projecting wheel wing nuts or mudguards that could strike a pedestrian ; and a loose rear bumper that might fall off and cause an accident etc . |
| 27 | These differences in land values ( which mean higher rents or higher prices for land or houses ) provide the mechanism by which different groups are distributed throughout the urban area , often in the form of circles radiating out from the centre . |
| 28 | No dugouts , though ; only the water hyacinths travelling up from the south , and floating away to the west , clump after clump , with the thick-stalked lilac flowers like masts . |
| 29 | The cars were slow with the cones curving out from the pavement . |
| 30 | The Vicar then took the text for his sermon from the second lesson , ‘ God loveth a cheerful giver ’ , and was so carried away by his own rhetoric that he absent-mindedly helped himself to most of the grapes hanging down from the top of the pulpit . |