Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] from the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it , as I have suggested , the structures of identity formation at work here are fundamental to our existing cultural forms , they can not be considered as stemming only from the psychoanalytic tradition . |
| 2 | Has the building been changed from the original by additions and alterations , and are these cracking away from the main building ? |
| 3 | Tribe caught them up as they were attacking a pair of two-seaters which were climbing away from the British Line , if there still was one , having just bombed an artillery position . |
| 4 | He collapsed after returning home from the latest run-in and , sadly , died several days later . |
| 5 | Walking up from the main road we passed the camel drivers squatting round their early morning fires . |
| 6 | She had drifted unhappily around the estate , dragging her feet and shrinking back from the noisy pack of children which romped around the gardens . |
| 7 | Ideally the Civic Society would like to see far more drastic policy change , possibly thinking in terms of forty hectares but we realize the minimum possible would be the thirty point five hectares which is hanging over from the first phase of the structure plan , and so that must of course be regarded as committed . |
| 8 | Ruth , looking down from the upper deck , her hand clasped around Anna 's , lifted her clear soprano voice with the rest , though it was difficult to sing because of the tight aching in her throat and the tears which pricked at her eyes . |
| 9 | The Gardon was so full of silt ( plus the occasional dead sheep or cow ) that looking down from the third floor of the Pont du Gard it looked more like a flow of molasses than a river . |
| 10 | They stayed in Aberdeen from the night of Saturday , 21 August , to the morning of Tuesday the 24th , venturing forth from the New Inn to see and be seen , to be entertained and , in Johnson 's case , to be honoured by the body municipal . |
| 11 | It stands like a phallic exhortation to the newly-weds living around it , but was a hive of industry once , dating possibly from the seventeenth century . |
| 12 | Michael stared at the tie pin glinting up from the red velvet lining . |
| 13 | North of the town centre on the Stroud road , several old stone-built mill buildings survive , of which the largest is Dunkirk Mills , dating partly from the eighteenth century . |
| 14 | In the grounds of Mapledurham House , where Alexander Pope visited the Blount sisters , is a brick and timber water mill , dating partly from the fifteenth century , with later additions , the oldest surviving mill on the River Thames . |
| 15 | The sequence of pictures in Figs. 22.3–22.8 shows convection patterns occurring at Rayleigh numbers ranging upwards from the critical value . |
| 16 | So , Slon , how do you feel about Zagrat , looking back from the freak time ? ’ asked the bimbo interviewer . |
| 17 | Likewise , the purpose of introducing science into the secondary schools was never in doubt to such leading advocates as H. E. Roscoe , the first President of the Association of Public School Science Masters ( the precursor of our Association for Science Education ) ; school science was , for Roscoe , as Layton quotes him , to be ‘ the means of sifting out from the great mass of the people those golden grains of genius which now are too often lost amongst the sands of mediocrity ’ . |
| 18 | How are things going on from the other point of view ? |
| 19 | He was peering down from the leaning tower of Pisa like Galileo testing his theory of gravity . |
| 20 | He swerved past it , stopped and , looking back , saw Bigwig come racing in from the opposite side . |
| 21 | It will require a miracle for Bedford to retain their status , even allowing for their few plus points — a top New Zealand coach , the arrival of a useful looking New Zealand scrum-half , and the fact that if the three national divisions are expanded , as proposed , next season , only one team will be going down from the First Division . |
| 22 | The fire tenders were pulling away from the doomed building as the two men pounded towards them , waving them down . |
| 23 | Heads low , they pressed on , galloping whenever there was a moment 's calm and heat , turning away from the ice-laden wind when the ferocious shards of the glacier came at them like insects . |
| 24 | We were heading away from the Fraxilly sector , so Famlio could search in that area all they wanted . |
| 25 | ‘ After the quarantine period 's over , ’ he went on , with an air of simplifying an impossibly complex process , ‘ the containers are transferred into the decanning cave through a series of sub-ponds leading off from the main storage pond . |
| 26 | Sampling directly from the pancreatic duct provides a more proximate sample for cytological diagnosis and may improve the diagnostic sensitivity . |
| 27 | The high marble steps curved upwards , paralleling the flight leading up from the front door . |
| 28 | They took the corner in a skidding turn , and rocketed into the dark mouth of the alley only a few yards ahead of the second police car , which was racing up from the opposite direction . |
| 29 | Jim Perrin , interviewing the climber John Gill , refers to how some hypnagogic states have their parallels in situations of action and describes how , on easy routes , Gill ‘ could feel himself weaving in and out of the rock , peering out from the other side of its surface ’ . |
| 30 | Ann was already half-way up the primitive stairway , a series of flat stones jutting out from the inner surface of the highest section of wall . |