Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] from the [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scotch Whisky is inseparable from Scotland … of all the spirits mankind has distilled , refined and enhanced from nature 's huge store of goodness , Scotch Whisky is the noblest … a distillation of the natural riches with which Scotland is so abundantly endowed … clear waters tumbling down from the hills and across the moors , though peat and over granite … fields of golden barley … the cool , pure air . |
| 2 | People were climbing down from the truck and seemed to be forming another queue . |
| 3 | Noise was already filtering through from the lounge and the veranda , where the house guests had gathered . |
| 4 | Alerted by a grapevine of unparalleled efficiency to the presence of honkies with money , hitherto undiscovered talents began swarming in from the ghettos and down from the hills , bearing tape-recordings , even guitars , for impromptu auditions . |
| 5 | One can picture Hoskyns looking down from the skies and being grateful for his pupil ; and Bethune-Baker looking down and thinking that he always knew where Hoskyns might lead the Churches . |
| 6 | His voice is high-pitched and breathless , floating in the back of the mouth , instead of pushing up from the throat and chest . |
| 7 | People like Sherman ( 1985 ) now argue that there are three separate streams or channels of information passing up from the retina and through the visual cortex . |
| 8 | The sea wall ended , steps going down from the promenade and burying themselves in sand . |
| 9 | It was a bright day with thin sunshine burnishing up from the snow and men blinked and rubbed their eyes as they crossed the open space between the two compounds , tramping over the road running down to the village and the railway line that stretched far the other way to Pot'ma . |
| 10 | The woman and children burst out laughing again , getting up from the table and crowding round me . |
| 11 | Three days later I was limping back from the village and was about half a mile from home when I saw a movement in the hedge . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There , gazing out from the balconies and look-out points , they imagined they were on board frigates and corvettes and that they had cannons and decks . |
| 14 | Practise this also in reverse mode , stepping back from the attack and simultaneously moving out of line . |
| 15 | Ian had been travelling down from the States and through Mexico . |
| 16 | And Francis almost made it five on the stroke of half-time , cutting in from the right and curling a left-foot shot just wide . |
| 17 | ‘ I think they know what 's to be done , Mrs Crumwallis , ’ said Hilary Frome , coming in from the sitting-room and taking immediate charge . |
| 18 | God knows how much there still is down there ; I 've seen great stacks and bales of it still with the Royal Navy markings on it , and I 've dreamed up any number of ways of getting at it , but short of tunnelling in from the shed and taking the cordite out from the back , so that the bales looked untouched from the inside of the cellar , I do n't see how I could do it . |
| 19 | But now I 'm just deciding I 'll live off invalidity benefit for a wee while longer , leaving that in the hands of my my managing director and somebody else and the money that 's coming through from the Queen and whatever I 'm just gon na live on invalidity benefit , I 'm only drawing invalidity benefit , I 'm not gon na get any more money than invalidity benefit . |
| 20 | The sky had clouded over ; the cloud coming up from the desert and spreading over the whole wide sky in a matter of minutes . |
| 21 | A row of thatched cottages is strung along the lane coming up from the sea and opens into a forecourt in the front and at the eastern side of the house . |
| 22 | ‘ I was coming back from the shops and saw Frankie dodging between parked cars , ’ Monica said yesterday . |
| 23 | An NCO clutching a grenade marched up to the barrier and Kahane told him that they were coming back from the front and were in a hurry . |
| 24 | Cor you 're a long time coming back from the Rose and Crown , do n't forget that 's where we were |
| 25 | I saw people springing up from the ground and letting down ropes out of the sky , boarding red buses , jabbering in English . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , dear me , ’ he said , standing back from the window and dusting himself down , wiping his face with a handkerchief . |
| 27 | Standing back from the lane and slightly below it , at the bottom of a weed-covered drive . |
| 28 | Huge black clouds were rolling by from the south and the ghastly light that preceded the storm disappeared under an advancing curtain of rain . |
| 29 | Anyway , I have no access to it , and have to cart metres of black metal piping back from the town and sweat and labour over it , bending it and cutting it and boring it and crimping it and bending it again , straining with it in the vice until the bench and shed creak with my efforts . |
| 30 | When it came to practice , the weather was appalling , with low clouds streaming in from the sea and rain falling constantly . |