Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun pl] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In front of Roshanara 's litter , which was open , sat a young , well-dressed female slave , with a peacock 's tail in her hand , brushing away the dust and keeping off the flies from the Princess … |
| 2 | It is the perfect name for you , ’ as they lay on the grass in the Boboli Gardens , sheltering under the trees from the fierce afternoon sun . |
| 3 | The effect would have been to distance even more those living in the territories from the decision-making machinery of the PLO outside . |
| 4 | Water was soon cascading down the stairs from the top storey . |
| 5 | Grooms came at once , and briskly , to take the bridles , and a spruce page came bounding down the steps from the hall door to greet the newcomers and discover their business here , but he was waved away by an older steward who had emerged from the stables . |
| 6 | You can make a little money selling off the thinnings from the Norway spruce as Christmas trees . |
| 7 | er , there 's talk about the er , government waiting for the recommendations from the Food Advisory Committee , when are they due ? |
| 8 | Pedestrians going down the steps from the bus stop are hidden by trees and shrubs and have to either walk in the road or cross over to find a pavement . |
| 9 | If the Queen 's telescope had been able to reach into Patrick 's classroom , there would have been a surprise in store for her — but not for Patrick , who at least affects to believe the story that Orwellian minders are peering at the punters from the screens of the punters ' television sets . |
| 10 | On his arrival , he had asked for hot water to be brought up to his room at nine sharp the next morning , but the sight of one of the young servant girls struggling up the stairs from the kitchen with the huge kettle of boiling water had made him feel so guilty and ashamed he had not asked again . |
| 11 | Holmewood 's ‘ whistling ’ bridge ( it made noises if the wind was blowing through the rafters from the right direction ) has just been passed by K3 No. 60896 as it heads a southbound coal train up the 1 in 100 in about 1961 . |
| 12 | A man had once weighed his daughter in the huge scales used in the port for the cargoes coming off the ships from the East , he had promised that the suitor his daughter chose would take her weight in gold for a dowry , she was so virtuous . |
| 13 | These initiatives were designed to co-ordinate spending within the Partnerships from the key departments — the Departments of the Environment , Employment , and Trade and Industry — spending that by 1988–9 amounted to about £850 million per annum . |
| 14 | Exciting stories emerged the next day of many killed and , particularly , the whisky running in the gutters from the warehouse many claimed to have collected the whisky in jam jars and all kinds of handy vessels . |
| 15 | The Prime Minister was coming down the stairs from the first floor flanked by Burke Trend , the Cabinet Secretary , William Armstrong , Head of the Home Civil Service , and Robert Armstrong , then his Principal Private Secretary — all three Treasury men . |
| 16 | They asked me in for tea , and we all listened to the morning news on Radio Tonga , crackling over the miles from the aerials down in Tongatapu . |
| 17 | The others — Rodney and Veronica in the lead — were straggling up the steps from the cove . |
| 18 | We in the PAC have not been fighting for the crumbs from the master 's table . ’ |
| 19 | We 're talking about the answers from the professionals in the field . |
| 20 | Money flowing into the territories from the Gulf nations and from remittances had fallen dramatically as a result of the war . |
| 21 | Jostling , thumping , grunting , slapping , guffawing , raspberrying as the lads from the nail factory got fell in . |
| 22 | The smells wafting up the stairs from the kitchen were making her stomach churn , and she ran down , taking them two by two . |
| 23 | Teenagers at Haughton Comprehensive are working with the professionals from the Phoenix Dance Company as schools throughout the country prepare to teach dancing for the first time . |