Example sentences of "and [v-ing] from the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The brave young woman , with hands blistered and bloated and bleeding from the venomous hair-fine spines of the prickly pear , opened the fruit , dried it in the sun , and spun it to a fine thread on a spindle . |
| 2 | RF325 was transferred to SMR , carrying the codes ‘ H–D ’ and progressing from the white/grey maritime colours to overall dark grey circa 1952 . |
| 3 | But we 'll all be so busy reading all this wonderful stuff , and learning from the big bad world about how to market it , that we wo n't have time to do anything else . ’ |
| 4 | erm sequences such as what happened yesterday , what happened today , what 's going to happen tomorrow — dyslexic people very often have great difficulty with this and transferring from the two dimensional to the three dimensional , like you might say to a dyslexic adult when he or she asks directions , ‘ Oh , well , it 's first right , second left and then there 's a tower on your right and you 've got to turn to the left after the tree ’ and so on , and a dyslexic person ca n't remember any of that at all , or transfer it from the map to the reality . |
| 5 | Since 1914 millions of Russians had been on the move — four to five million away from the advancing armies of the Central Powers ; at least twelve million fleeing into exile during and after the Revolution ; the largest land army in the world manoeuvring , dying , and deserting from the longest front-line in history — to give the major examples alone , with very approximate numbers . |