Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a few moments she stood watching him as with quick little movements he fed himself , his sharp eyes darting suspiciously from side to side . |
| 2 | The ginger tomcat glared up at her , its tail lashing furiously from side to side . |
| 3 | A visually outstanding picture book revealing the megalomania of Stalinist architecture both on paper and as realised with amazing diversity in popular palaces deriving most from Boullée , Piranesi and the Gothic cathedral . |
| 4 | ‘ Ah telt ye that before , ’ he recalled , his boozed eyes gazing emptily from side to side . |
| 5 | The division of the YJ Lovell group says the move leaves it better placed to cash in on work it is currently bringing in from South Yorkshire . |
| 6 | Who knows how much of the physical damage done to property and people arises out of the resentment and frustration smouldering on from school-days ? ( see Hargreaves , 1967 , and Lacey , 1970 , for accounts of the ‘ D-stream subculture ’ in secondary schools ) . |
| 7 | Soldiers , returning wearily from war , reach a village where they are warmly welcomed by maidens , and their leader succumbs to the charms of the Scarlet Woman . |
| 8 | Many more stories could be told of the effects of the bomb — of terrible burns and of people dying slowly from radiation . |
| 9 | In climbing down from Mount Olympus and passing over these concentric circles , you can imagine you are tracing the path of magma rising at the mid ocean ridges , eventually to spew through vents , producing large quantities of mineral ore . |
| 10 | He stood there in her crotch , weaving sinuously from side to side , hunching his shoulders , his flat little head squealing down into her face . |
| 11 | Hinged doors opening outwards from floor level facilitate easy cleaning and the hutch must be constructed to stand off the floor , preferably on legs , to ensure that urine and surplus drinking water drain away easily so that the floor remains dry . |
| 12 | This means checking personally from time to time the output from your area , whether it be a shoelace , a bottle of beer , a written report , half an hour 's advice or a telephone call to a client . |
| 13 | Now to do that effectively I think it 's essential that I get you to participate in what 's happening so from time to time I 'm going to ask you to answer questions , sometimes by writing them down , sometimes by shows of hands erm sometimes by er reacting back erm to the questions that I ask . |
| 14 | But added to that , I can well remember staying at Kettleborough Chequers erm and er walking along from Kettleborough to Brandeston erm th the very next morning after I 'd come here and I think it was before I think it was quite likely before we had we had actually met , I do n't know whether it was the first day or the second |
| 15 | Trading down from fillet steak to mince or sausages , from Cooper 's Oxford marmalade to supermarket own brand or from real coffee to soft-focus Gold Blend is as much a symbol of the 90s as lengthening dole queues and expanding cardboard box- dwelling communities . |
| 16 | Glendenen probably remembers the match best for having to face a 14-ball opening over from Essex 's former Hampshire paceman Steve Andrew , who currently has a fractured shoulder . |
| 17 | The only clue they have was provided by neighbours who reported seeing a silver or grey car driving away from Greta Avenue after gunshots were heard . |
| 18 | The picture of Christopher Court driving away from Church Row flashed into his mind . |
| 19 | They were driving away from Roxie Farmer 's house through Marlowe Street , one of the meaner streets of Greenwich . |
| 20 | Her main concern at the moment , though , is the difficulty of keeping away from cigarettes — her resolution to stop smoking is just four days old ! |
| 21 | I am driving over from Merseyside , so if the lad from Warrington is reading this , perhaps he 'd like to cadge a lift . |
| 22 | From there he easily caught a British Airways flight staging through from Mauritius to London . |
| 23 | In 1937 , 15 million people ( one-third of the population ) were holidaying away from home for a week or more . |
| 24 | Er it 's like kids or people walking through from Road to Road . |
| 25 | Walking away from Dudley — with the feeling that once again she was deserting her grandfather — she thought back to the moment on last New Year 's Day when she had looked down Nordale from her bedroom window , all eagerness for what 1848 would bring . |
| 26 | God knows I tried when I realised what was happening to us , although it was like a starving man walking away from food for me . |
| 27 | One reviewer slammed the 40-minute ‘ Blue Room ’ single as ‘ hippy excrement ’ , while the finale of ‘ UF Orb ’ finds the dolphins blasting off from Earth in a freshwater spaceship , leaving mankind to stew in his own toxic waste . |
| 28 | One July day in 1943 at Blaconsthorpe , Norfolk , a born-deaf farm labourer named Kenneth Andrews was walking home from work accompanied by his wife , and carrying his young baby when he saw a R.A.F. Typhoon fighter plane crash in flames . |
| 29 | When I first mentioned the subject of the shoes , as we were walking home from school that evening , he was n't sure what I was talking about . |
| 30 | ‘ I was walking home from school and a masked man grabbed me and hauled me into a car . |