Example sentences of "[v-ing] from [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the street outside the Marriott , in the rather rum section of town the locals affectionately have dubbed Pigalle Place , we had encountered Malgosia , a twenty-three-year-old prostitute , disembarking from a car . |
| 2 | We had arrived at Orange a week previously , and after disembarking from the coach had been ordered into the barrack rooms by our Corporals , who were waiting outside on the parade ground . |
| 3 | Within minutes of disembarking from the boats and starting the search we all found to our disappointment that the good weather still had n't dried out the long grass of the islands , and we were all soon soaking . |
| 4 | CLEVELAND police are today hoping to interview a man thought to have made an attempted suicide bid by leaping from a Stockton bridge . |
| 5 | I held her to me as we fell across the bed , feeling her lithe life-force twitching against me as beautiful as a rainbow trout , leaping from a mill race into my outstretched arms . |
| 6 | But he went for it : two dolphins leaping from a sea turned dark red at sunset . |
| 7 | He was a boy again , leaping from a rock into one of the sweet rivers of Yorkshire . |
| 8 | A BUXOM woman stunned pensioner Jack Cookson — by leaping from a car and flashing her boobs . |
| 9 | Silas gritted , leaping from the bed and straightening his shirt by tucking it into his trousers . |
| 10 | Leaping from the bed , Seb put his bad foot to the floor and cried out in agony , but he continued hopping towards the window . |
| 11 | Leaping from the window sill she fell directly on top of a passer-by walking along the pavement below . |
| 12 | Bring history leaping from the pages of those boring , old textbooks — Battle of Hastings , 1066 — Magna Carta , 1215 — Great Fire of London , 1666 . |
| 13 | I am so used to leaping from the sensation , the flat circle , to the judgement , a globe , and do it so quickly , that I do not notice I have done it . |
| 14 | Leaping from the cabs , Rocky and his fellow trucker ran to the back of their rigs and threw open the rear doors . |
| 15 | A splashy Belle-epoque tableau literally bursting at the edges with tumbling patrons leaping from the stage , frantic dancers , several pairs of identical twins and top-hatted gentlemen consorting with masked beauties , it was most entertaining decoration , and seemed reasonably estimated at $100–150,000 , though it sold to an American collector ( widely believed to be Iris and Gerald Cantor ) for a stunning $650,000 ( £373,500 ) . |
| 16 | In these circumstances , rape by a husband might very well be thought to be more disturbing in its effects than rape by that classic stranger leaping from the shadows . |
| 17 | Also under examination is the feasibility of a 35 to 40 knot inshore lifeboat , launching from a slipway , davit or off a beach . |
| 18 | The pleas were entered at an earlier court which heard the charges arose out of the removal and subsequent sale of gents clothing from the store as well as what was described as the ‘ creaming off ’ of cash from sales at the counter . |
| 19 | Small daughter polyps can be formed by budding from the base of the parent . |
| 20 | Behind the scenes Pilger , still fuming from the Kennedy Hotel showdown , was working separately . |
| 21 | Opening from the bedroom was a bathroom and lavatory — the flat was entirely self-contained . |
| 22 | The bichir and other primitive freshwater fish have a pouch opening from the gut to enable them to breathe air . |
| 23 | They had heard loud banging from the boxcars , as if someone was trying to attract their attention . |
| 24 | Moreover , the car is hideously noisy with the hood up , and it has the effect of filtering out some of the nice engine sounds and replacing them with rattles from the differential , whines from the gearbox and banging from the suspension . |
| 25 | Plagiarizing from the Miracles of St Martin at Tours , Breton produced material to turn Fulk into the conventional saintly layman who , assisting a leper , found that he had helped Christ . |
| 26 | Laughing from the depths of his shaking frame , he explained , ‘ Mollie Green . |
| 27 | This means that there is no significant reordering of the chain conformation when crystallization takes place after cooling from the melt , which would be required if a regularly folded chain structure was to be constructed in the lamellae . |
| 28 | Shevardnadze stunned the Congress by announcing from the podium on Dec. 20 that he was resigning in protest at the ascendency of reactionary forces , and what he called the " onset of dictatorship " . |
| 29 | The basic purpose of this filter is to smooth out the chopped waveform appearing from the switch and so provide a steady output voltage across a load resistance R L , though it does this job in an unconventional way . |
| 30 | The development strategy can be further controlled by specifying a parameter and temporarily removing nodes satisfying from the list of active nodes . |