Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe that what we are seeing from President Moi and members of his Government is all going in the right direction . |
| 2 | About one hundred years ago the EMMS directors were given the responsibility of running the Hawthornbrae Trust which currently exists to provide holiday grants to Edinburgh residents who are recovering from illness and who would not otherwise be able to afford even a short holiday break . |
| 3 | We pray for those who are ill , or are recovering from illness , especially for Jim Jackson and Doreen Parris . |
| 4 | The house is being inspected by surveyors to make sure it 's structurally safe … the girls and their mother are recovering from shock . |
| 5 | Many are dying from starvation before they reach safe havens in Northern Kenya . |
| 6 | I have patients with real illnesses — patients who are dying from cancer . ’ |
| 7 | Civilisation is now threatened with possible destruction : the atmosphere is heating up and the seas are rising , trees are dying from acid rain , a hole in the ozone layer appears over the South Pole . |
| 8 | Shrubs , which had been dying from lack of water since the supply had been cut off , were suddenly green and straight again in a brief moment of health before the rising waters overwhelmed them . |
| 9 | Only in his more recent work The Power of the Center , published in 1988 , has he been looking from art to the resources offered by psychology . |
| 10 | Like hundreds of other child victims of the bloody Yugoslav war , Natasha had been sheltering from gunfire in the Sarajevo orphanage , when Mike found her . |
| 11 | BT went a stage further in its experiment , just completed , involving ten staff from its directory enquiries centre at Inverness who over the past year have been operating from home . |
| 12 | She has been wandering from post to post for six years , having left her home in , I suspect , scandalous circumstances . |
| 13 | A lightweight chiffon shirt ( right ) is the perfect cover over swimsuits or bodies when you 're gliding from beach to bar . |
| 14 | She made to close the door on them when Mrs Phipps added , ‘ We 're gooin' from dower to dower ter get a collection up for a few flowers . |
| 15 | Now having been discharged they 're convalescing from surgery with a family in Oxfordshire away from the glare of publicity . |
| 16 | I felt I knew what addicts ' lives are like and what they think they 're getting from dope . |
| 17 | If you think about the problems that there are with mathematics , whereby it 's not just a question of scanning print from left to right , but that you were involved in processes where sometimes you 're moving from left to right and sometimes from right to left , sometimes vertically . |
| 18 | ‘ Tell Corps we 're flying from dawn to dusk . |
| 19 | Now you 're speaking from experience are n't you ? |
| 20 | It 's as unlike the usual fish-and-chippery as it 's possible to get if you 're buying from Magnet Southern 's : the lad 's even blown his brass on carpets and chandeliers . |
| 21 | If you 're starting from scratch , what do you really need ? |
| 22 | years so we 're starting from scratch . |
| 23 | Check with a doctor to see if your tiredness has a physical cause , or if you 're suffering from depression . |
| 24 | ‘ Because you 're suffering from amnesia , Leonora , ’ he said brusquely . |
| 25 | If you 're suffering from holiday diarrhoea , you 've probably got food poisoning . |
| 26 | Now that she 's vented her spite for the evening , she wo n't even notice you 're missing , but if anyone asks I 'll tell them you 're suffering from toothache . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ The nice thing about fighting a seat like this is that we ca n't lose since we 're coming from rock bottom . |
| 28 | The person who is out in the front teaching the class , or directing the piece of work they 're doing , they do , and everybody in it does … the kind of work we do is to do with a group of people … getting into a drama studio , and you know the set-up here ; there 's no uniform , there 's no ‘ Sir ’ or ‘ Miss ’ , it 's all Christian names , and that means that the holds are broken down a lot , so what is done in the end is to produce work which we hope makes statements which come from the pre-occupations , the beliefs , the honestly held beliefs of the people involved , whether they 're working from a text , an interpretation of a text , or whether they 're working from improvisation , doing their own work … so they get constant assessment from that . |
| 29 | But the chain was trading as usual and Mr Chapman 's outlook remained buoyant : ‘ The business has been going from strength to strength . ’ |
| 30 | If you are using a Brother machine you need to take care when you are going from lace to a tuck stitch row and vice vera . |