Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [adv prt] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Seb was struggling up from the table . |
| 2 | He lifted a hand off his cup in weary salute to one of his sergeants. a very dark Scot in a crumpled grey suit who was walking over from the counter , and the man altered course to sit opposite him . |
| 3 | The next minute she was leaping up from the bed , striding across the room and snatching the door open . |
| 4 | The blood was oozing out from the tip of his boot and his face had turned the usual grey colour of the soldier who had been wounded . |
| 5 | Although a fair breeze was picking up from the south-east , the harbour was aquarium calm , and the poignancy of this departure from a fairytale kingdom in our pirate prahu was marred , alas , by making so little headway that an hour and a half after cast-off we were still within spitting distance of the dock . |
| 6 | Sitting safe in the big tree , hidden within the protective myriad of bough , branch and leaf , he was submerged in a greenish half-light filtered through layer upon layer of natural growth , and he was looking out from the dimming or dappling shelter of his high cave into the dazzle of a rare summer brightness beyond . |
| 7 | She timed this operation very carefully , applying the glue just as her father was getting up from the breakfast table . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A brisk wind was blowing up from the Tail of the Bank . |
| 10 | The spring sunshine was almost warm and a soft breeze was blowing in from the sea . |
| 11 | It was coming over from the Empire , the colonies , as you know , and masses of grain coming in from America and Canada . |
| 12 | At the end of the third car , just past George Burley 's office , he stopped , because someone was coming out from the station to meet him : a gaunt man in a padded short coat with a fur collar , with grey hair blowing in disarray in the wind . |
| 13 | I was coming back from the labs at Menelaus , after some work detail or other . |
| 14 | In fact , it was coming back from the Tadcaster job that the old Atlas van that we had , blew up — the big ends just blew out of it and we had to dump it there and go . |
| 15 | She was the first to get to get to know about the lady whose husband was coming back from the Forces . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's funny you should ask because I bumped into her just as I was coming back from the loo . |
| 17 | Vocals went straight down with only the minimum of top end EQ to keep them sharp , and when I went for the final mixdown I have to say I was amazed at how big a sound was coming back from the monitors . |
| 18 | ‘ I was coming back from the shops and saw Frankie dodging between parked cars , ’ Monica said yesterday . |
| 19 | I was coming back from the shops the other day when I saw him get out of his car . |
| 20 | They had got into conversation one evening when Ianthe was coming back from the library where she worked , and it had reassured her — coming as a stranger to this rather doubtful neighbourhood — to meet somebody whom her mother would have described as a ‘ gentlewoman ’ . |
| 21 | As Roberto was coming down from the top of his back-swing , the spectators leaned forward on to the fencing causing a crack like thunder . |
| 22 | ‘ A harvest wagon was coming in from the field when suddenly the horses stopped and refused to go any further . |
| 23 | A breeze was coming in from the water , stirring the branches overhead and sending a low , unearthly moan through the woodland . |
| 24 | The night was dark and a fog was coming in from the river , but she hesitated . |
| 25 | Posi then told me that a comm-call was coming in from the Famlio ship , but I told her to ignore it . |
| 26 | Earlier on this week all that cloud was coming in from the north-west , now you can see it coming across from the west and as the weekend goes along , it will come in more from the south-west , so it will warm up a little bit . |
| 27 | Led by a small boy in shorts and singlet and over-large wellingtons , a herd of cows was coming in from the fields . |
| 28 | He was looking neither to the right nor the left but out to sea , where a round ship was coming in from the south-east , her sails shuddering , her course designed to intersect with the Genoese just outside the harbour . |
| 29 | The fog was creeping up from the marsh towards the house . |
| 30 | Dan Ashton had come forward , and was leaning over from the side of Smith 's desk , whispering something into his boss 's ear . |