Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] from [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1987 Mr Keyse was disabled in a road accident while returning home from a day 's work at Llanfair Caereinion station . |
| 2 | Stopping would 've been like looking away from a hypnotist 's swinging silver watch . |
| 3 | Different people in the group will be given specific roles such as time keeper , secretary ; and there will be explicit rules of behaviour such as only speaking through the chair , considering one idea at a time , recapping frequently from the secretary 's minutes and so on . |
| 4 | He is now living apart from the children 's mother , but can not be named for legal reasons . |
| 5 | Art-B was said to have arranged huge loans from Poland 's two biggest financial institutions , the National Bank of Poland ( central bank ) and the PKO ( the state savings bank ) , and was accused of illegal manipulation of bank deposits and loans , profiting illegally from the country 's 60 per cent interest rates . |
| 6 | The first , deriving also from the Council 's first major text , and with little doubt the most decisive for the life of most Catholics , was that to make far greater use of the vernacular in the liturgy ( Sacrosanctum Concilium 36 and 54 ) . |
| 7 | The effects of hypocrisy in Macbeth , compared to Richard III , are far greater , spreading outwards from the king 's murder , creating correspondent perversions in the whole realm of nature . |
| 8 | As a first approximation , we may note that ( 81 ) He 's coming seems to gloss as " he is moving towards the speaker 's location at CT " , while ( 82 ) He 's going glosses as " he is moving away from the speaker 's location at CT " . |
| 9 | ‘ It was as we were coming away from the assassin 's apartment . |
| 10 | Staring balefully from the 30-year-old 's office wall are pictures of his six predecessors . |
| 11 | I hate that , I really do , thank God I 'm at boarding school cos I hate , the worst bit is like when they get , I remember when I was at day school and them coming home from the parents ' evening and I was |
| 12 | They say they 'll use the information happy in the knowledge that it 's coming straight from the horse 's mouth . |
| 13 | Without taking away from the association 's present main activities in forming international teams and organising international events — mirrored by the clubs ' heavy orientation towards racing — it was agreed that the whole base of the sport needed widening . |
| 14 | Sales agent Lindsay Wright was driving to the village supermarket with his wife Sally and sons Daniel , 10 , and Thomas , 7 , when he spotted the thief roaring away from the jeweller 's shop . |
| 15 | WOW ! looks at learning firmly from the student 's point of view . |
| 16 | The adverbs here and there are often thought of as simple contrasts on a proximal/distal dimension , stretching away from the speaker 's location , as in : ( 72 ) Bring that here and take this there But this is only sometimes so , for although there basically means " distal from speaker 's location at CT " , it can also be used to mean " proximal to addressee at RT " . |
| 17 | Before the 1979 election the party took advantage of the Winter of Discontent to toughen its manifesto proposals , promising to curtail flying pickets , or picketing away from the pickets ' place of work , and provide funds for pre-strike ballots of union members and for the election of union officials . |
| 18 | Then , quoting directly from the TUC 's report : Here then is the quantum leap : not consultation , but control . |