Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The imagination must be fed ; we should not expect children to go on drawing from imagination or memory without directing his attention to the things he does and sees , and tries to imagine . |
| 2 | The keys crashed to the floor next to Gedanken ; the piece of paper followed , slowly fluttering from side to side like a snowflake . |
| 3 | It was the most inspiring experience of my life and the visit provided food for my hungry spirit which by then was slowly dying from malnutrition . |
| 4 | In the indictment Bunyan was accused , among other things , of ‘ devilishly and perniciously abstaining from coming to Church to hear Divine Service ’ . |
| 5 | In 1754 Ramsay was again in Italy , where he remained for three years , developing the wonderfully delicate style of his maturity , and constantly drawing from life with all the avidity to learn of a student . |
| 6 | ‘ It is an achievement to play games at the moment , as we are literally living from hand to mouth . |
| 7 | I am reduced to sitting staring out of the window with nothing much to look at but a young man , presumably a salesman or political canvasser , patiently going from door to door down the street . |
| 8 | A general fining of the material and better sorting from east to west is the result . |
| 9 | At the same time the emphasis is quite naturally shifting from production for broadcast to production for use on video in the classroom . |
| 10 | Not all people who use enforced vomiting as a method of avoiding the consequences of overeating ( or who use it simply as a method of slimming in order to follow the dictates of fashion ) are necessarily suffering from bulimia . |
| 11 | ‘ We 're both obviously suffering from jet-lag , and we 'll feel a lot better after a decent night 's sleep . ’ |
| 12 | Two other girls had been grazed and bruised , and were obviously suffering from shock . |
| 13 | They are also the largest single source of income , and so spending from wage packets is a key source of markets . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , I think Freud 's view was that er the erm , if it was a really long complicated dream , you were recalling a previous fantasy rather than er necessarily creating from scratch because of this particular stimulus . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , the banks can only be advanced , so selecting from bank five to bank four means the pedal has to be pressed four times . |
| 16 | He got round in par figures , but was obviously playing from memory . |
| 17 | Another consequence of reorganization apparently detracting from job satisfaction has been a depersonalization of relationships within the organization . |
| 18 | The superintendent had fallen asleep during the journey , her head gently rolling from side to side against the car seat , her front teeth prominent in her open mouth as she breathed through her nose . |
| 19 | He was only missing from Palace line-ups from that time as a result of injury or illness , though his playing record demonstrates that he was prone to neither , and it was while we had Billy Callender in goal that Palace came closest to returning to Division 2 in 1928–29 , when we finished as runners-up to Charlton on goal average . |
| 20 | The study of housework as work is a topic entirely missing from sociology . |
| 21 | My husband , just recovering from hospital treatment himself , must now care for me , entailing 24-hour supervision . |
| 22 | His simple , understandable but rich symbolism and clever technique show someone who has put his whole heart into the character of his poem , if indeed he is not writing from experience . |
| 23 | It 's a very difficult time , we 're just living from day to day . |
| 24 | Ride are just going from strength to strength — one of the bands that are really cutting through at the moment . |
| 25 | On the M twenty five clockwise the traffic is very heavy and slow moving from junction thirteen for Staines as far as junction eighteen for Chorleywood , that 's due to earlier accidents and the volume of traffic . |
| 26 | Because Xtradrive requires a device driver , which means that it is a system level device , bypassing DOS and the BIOS to go straight to the hard disk would result in the swap file not benefiting from compression . |
| 27 | There was something in his voice that made her believe he was not speaking from malice himself . |
| 28 | Its found some doctors walk up to eighteen miles every day just getting from patient to patient . |
| 29 | We are not starting from square one ! |
| 30 | We are not starting from square one ! ’ |