Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I am driving over from Merseyside , so if the lad from Warrington is reading this , perhaps he 'd like to cadge a lift . |
| 8 | From there he easily caught a British Airways flight staging through from Mauritius to London . |
| 9 | Er it 's like kids or people walking through from Road to Road . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But at the eleventh hour I heard that Nigel 's stepbrother would be attending , driving up from Somerset and coming straight to the crematorium . |
| 12 | Violette is driving up from Geneva with from what I can make out is her latest beau and two friends . |
| 13 | Driving back from Newhaven to Tunbridge Wells that afternoon , he had only to think of the empty house and the solitary evening awaiting him at Farriers to rebel against caution and risk a diversion to Ockham House . |
| 14 | Rufus , driving back from London with the hashish his dealer swore was genuine Indian charas and a package of best Colombian , picked her off the street — ‘ a piece of property that is found ownerless ’ . |
| 15 | So you 're driving back from Nottingham |
| 16 | The barrister Anthony Hope Hawkins was walking back from Westminster Crown Court to the Temple on 28 November 1893 , having won his case , when the idea of Ruritania came into his head : |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll see if I can get tickets , ’ was all he offered before kissing her sweetly on the mouth and going inside to get some paperwork together for the meeting with his lawyer who was driving out from Palma to see him . |
| 18 | From left : climbing out from Guernsey with a visiting training sailing ship below ; Trislander over Alderney , whose airport may be seen in the background ; the island of Herm on a hazy autumn day , with Sark in the background ; Trislander 's single-pilot-panel — very functional , with mixture knobs oddly set on top |
| 19 | Onomatopoeic effects are generally of this kind , as we see from the opening sentence of D. H. Lawrence 's Odour of Chrysanthemums ( see 3.4 ) : The small locomotive engine , Number 4 , came clanking , stumbling down from Selston with seven full wagons . |
| 20 | From D. H. Lawrence , Odour of Chrysanthemums The small locomotive engine , Number 4 , came clanking , stumbling down from Selston with seven full waggons ( 1 ) . |
| 21 | He makes use of verbs which are intrinsically onomatopoeic , like clanking , thumped and rapped , as well as words which are phonaesthetic in a less direct sense , such as stumbling and clumsy , clutch and claw , in which the similarities of sound connote similarities of meaning In the description of the train , regularities of rhythm ( clanking , stumbling down from Selston " , " one by one , with slow inevitable movement ) are interspersed with the clogging effect of juxtaposed heavily stressed syllables ( loud threats of speed " , " The trucks thumped heavily past " ) , to which consonant clusters add vehement emphasis : Elsewhere , the short vowel /æ/; combines with repeated stop consonants to intensify hard , uncompromising features of the landscape : " jolting black waggons " , " black headstocks " , " rapped out its spasms " . |
| 22 | His bust , crowned with fresh bay leaves , presides at the side of the stage , and if he is looking down from Valhalla , let us hope he is pleased to be proved wrong . |
| 23 | Jones revealed how a half-time dressing down from manager Ian Porterfield transformed Chelsea after David Hirst had struck twice to put Wednesday 2-0 up . |
| 24 | N.W. the level had been driven 110 fathoms , and was almost to a sump sinking down from Taylor 's above . |
| 25 | This year he has a perfect excuse — his wife is expecting their first baby during the time the Three Wise Ladies are picking up from police , local authorities , and others information about weather , congestion , and danger points , and relaying it to the media . |
| 26 | Picking up from St Paul the idea that the Old Testament law was a kind of ‘ tutor ’ , Irenaeus saw the relation of the Testaments as a progressive education of humanity . |
| 27 | Entering it he could imagine her sitting there in the summer days and evenings , working on the papers which she occasionally contributed to ornithological journals and looking up from time to time to gaze out over the headland to the sea and the far horizon , could see again that carved , weather-browned Aztec face with its hooded eyes under the grey-black hair , drawn back into a bun , could hear again a voice which , for him , had been one of the most beautiful female voices he had ever heard . |
| 28 | ‘ To a terrific Sloane called Sukey , ’ said Perdita , not looking up from Horse and Hound . |
| 29 | Down from Chalk Farm tube , shivering , stumbling up from Camden Town , past a then-deserted lock , to be confronted by the soon-to-be-familiar queue . |
| 30 | Through their hold over the nine main lines fanning out from Moscow to all points of the compass they had succeeded in cutting off one White force from another in the Civil War . |