Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] [adv prt] from [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even as I write , my heart is being ‘ roasted ’ because of the pounding music beat coming down from the flat above me . |
| 2 | As he entered the paved courtyard the rain came whipping in from the sea , lashing against the car and obliterating everything . |
| 3 | A group of shaven-headed yobbos , with tattooed cheeks and nationalistic leanings , observed this from the upper deck and came swarming down from the bus . |
| 4 | Well , your mother came rushing in from the car with a rare display of energy and snatched it from the fellow 's hands . |
| 5 | Connon 's voice came drifting in from the hall . |
| 6 | Mrs Joyce , the cook , came panting up from the kitchen with the two maid-servants behind her , her hands and wrists covered in flour , while Uncle Walter and his sister peeped wide-eyed from behind the curtains . |
| 7 | Some of the children came running over from the village . |
| 8 | He came running in from the dispensary , pulling up his trousers , still held up by his MCC tie , the end of his stethoscope bouncing off his fat tummy . |
| 9 | As the 22 men in the three boats had just taken their respective stations , a young girl came running down from the village to the shore in breathless haste . |
| 10 | He came running back from the grave the day we reached here , saying someone had been tampering , and we could scarcely believe it . |
| 11 | The heavy sound of the door-knocker came beating up from the bottom of the house . |
| 12 | Red flares began coming up from the airfield , but the first bombers were committed : they had nowhere to go but down . |
| 13 | It began counting down from a starting position of 30:00 . |
| 14 | As he stood on the stage he felt pouring out from the audience that most British of reflexes : the will for the underdog to win . |
| 15 | He remembered staring out from the nest site on a clear cold morning and seeing a line of grey-blue a few miles to the north which they said was the sea . |
| 16 | I squelched across tiny burns running in black channels of peat , and stood looking down from the hillside on to the grey roofs of Scaup Farm . |