Example sentences of "was [v-ing] from the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daak was hanging from the rear platform , legs dangling , but he had embedded the teeth of the chainsword in one of the armour-plated side panels . |
| 2 | The ordeal began when Mr Arafat was returning from the Sudanese capital , Khartoum , to his headquarters in Tunis . |
| 3 | Ellen was grinning from the other couch , but I was in no mood to humour her amusement . |
| 4 | Music and laughter was spilling from the grand chamber . |
| 5 | An Arab woman , a Palestinian , was peering from the upper balcony . |
| 6 | On Aug. 6 , the rival Independent National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( INPFL ) , led by Prince Yormie Johnson , announced that it was withdrawing from the interim government , accusing Sawyer of giving senior posts to people from parties " which have failed the Liberian people in the past " . |
| 7 | Early in the New Year the organisation was moving from the Dickensian building in the city centre which it had inhabited for over fifty years to a new purpose-built high-rise office block south of the river , an area not long cleared of old slum dwellings and deratinised . |
| 8 | A wisp of smoke was rising from the other side of a clump of bushes on the edge of one hayfield where the hay had been stacked . |
| 9 | Theda demanded , indignation warring with the hurt she was experiencing from the dreadful blow that had been dealt her , the vicious attack to which she had been subjected . |
| 10 | He was bleeding from the lower body and moaning . ’ |
| 11 | The music was coming from the closed door . |
| 12 | He chose the time carefully , lurked and caught Dersingham as he was coming from the stable yard after having driven himself out . |
| 13 | With her thoughts far away and her eyes fixed on the distant horizon , she did not notice where she was going — and as the tall , broad-shouldered man who was coming from the opposite direction was too deeply absorbed in his own reflections to be aware of his surroundings , there was a sudden abrupt collision . |
| 14 | The lorry , which was coming from the local gravel-pit , drew up , and the Arab driver put out his head : ‘ Where are you going ? ’ he asked in French . |
| 15 | And William began to run from the approaching cart , which was piled high with the bodies of the plague victims , and as he ran the streets became the familiar streets of his childhood and he knew that all the time he was running from the terrible cart he was getting closer and closer to the dark house by the railway embankment with its shuttered windows and its locked door , and that this was more terrible to him than anything in his history books . |
| 16 | At independence in 1980 , the country was suffering from the limited coverage of the education system under the white minority regime . |
| 17 | I understood that he like everyone else was suffering from the atmospheric blight cast by Angela Brickell , he perhaps most because the strain of his own trial and conviction was so recent . |
| 18 | Stella could n't tell whether she was acting or not — she looked dreadful , as if she was suffering from the worst sort of headache , and yet she kept watching herself in the glass , turning her face this way and that , peering forward to follow the track of a tear rolling down her cheek . |
| 19 | He was smarting from the clerical opposition that had been marshaled against his nonsectarian charter for Cornell University . |
| 20 | Firstly the United States competition was changing from the old Bunch to a new collection of competitors targeted more at specific markets . |
| 21 | In the area of youth policy , as in many other areas of welfare , the philanthropic tradition was incorporated into the social service state which was emerging from the Liberal reform programme . |
| 22 | The next time he saw her she was emerging from the very lift he was waiting for . |
| 23 | It came to be replaced by the view that a ‘ new despotism ’ was arising from the growing practice of vesting legislative and judicial powers in the Executive . |
| 24 | And you 'd covered the acid house and you 'd covered AIDS and you 'd covered all the social issues , 'cos that 's was missing from the British press — it 's all like conventional politics as usual , or you get the |