Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | And her outdoor boots were sticking out from under the bed . |
| 2 | The Australians were recovering again from the brink of disaster , although a ruthless reprisal raid by Portuguese against the natives who had helped the Japanese was storing up trouble for the future . |
| 3 | We , when we were dredging , we were dredging now from Cliff Quay and er used to get all this er grey mud and erm and the chalk and when we used to dredge , we got down to chalk er , more or less the depth we wanted to go and anybody dredging down there today if they dredge the chalk at Cliff Quay that 's the depth of water you want and erm then we dredged erm just below erm and then we went to Freston Freston we were dredging peat . |
| 4 | But yes , yes … now the Warlords were angling away from one another as they tramped thunderously towards the Marines — who could certainly see them now through veils of smoke in the darkness riven by the lightning of explosions . |
| 5 | I was coming south from England ; they were returning home from a factory in Germany . |
| 6 | I remember one evening when we were returning home from Sitanarhi in the bullock cart . |
| 7 | The redundant steelworker and a friend were returning home from a social club when they tried to stop a group of youngsters allegedly attacking traffic bollards . |
| 8 | In 1937 , 15 million people ( one-third of the population ) were holidaying away from home for a week or more . |
| 9 | As the chief of the Army of the South , Franco 's plan was to occupy the western provinces of Badajoz and Cáceres ; link up with Mola 's troops , which were driving south-westwards from Navarre ; and advance eastwards on Madrid , following the natural line of penetration provided by the valley of the River Tagus . |
| 10 | From the stack of suitcases strapped on the overhead rack and the fact that they were driving away from the coast I guessed they were returning from a holiday . |
| 11 | They were driving away from Roxie Farmer 's house through Marlowe Street , one of the meaner streets of Greenwich . |
| 12 | She and her husband were driving home from Eastbourne in Fanshawe 's Jaguar . |
| 13 | When we were driving down from the border towards Beni Abbes , we quaked every time we saw police or soldiers . |
| 14 | Then one evening — I must have been 12 or 13 at the time — we were driving back from visiting my nan in Kent . |
| 15 | Ten minutes later they were walking away from their hotel . |
| 16 | She was only dimly aware of the approach of the two boys who were walking swiftly from the street corner . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Jackie Lamb , prosecuting at Warrington Youth Court , said the girl , 13 , and two friends were walking home from Penketh High . |
| 19 | While they were walking back from the Huddersfield discotheque , it suddenly dawned on Fred and Arthur that they had eaten three main meals that day instead of two . |
| 20 | They were shrinking back from the basement door . |
| 21 | A report in the International Herald Tribune at the end of August suggested that the Khmers Rouges were keeping away from the UN disarmament process because their forces had grown so small that they would lose influence if the numbers were made public . |
| 22 | By the time they reached Abergavenny , Owen was at Cardiff , and while they were pressing hard from Usk to Caerleon , Owen was withdrawing in excellent order into the wilds of Brecknock . |
| 23 | Tribe caught them up as they were attacking a pair of two-seaters which were climbing away from the British Line , if there still was one , having just bombed an artillery position . |
| 24 | People were climbing down from the truck and seemed to be forming another queue . |
| 25 | The carts were turning off the road now , and people were climbing down from them . |
| 26 | with a s as we were picking up from last week , a c a c in , in a sense that land reform is , is already taking place , there is this sort of groundswell from the masses that to move beyond the , the moderate policy and that is then formalized in the May the fourth directive which marks like the return to land reform going back to and then y y y y you 've got the implementation of that May the fourth directive and then out of a very difficult position in nineteen forty seven when they , they are under attack from the Kuomintang and i in the spring of nineteen forty seven is actually taken by Kuomintang . |
| 27 | The troopers were scattering away from Christine , thrashing through the foam , well aware that although the executive transporter had no weight , it still had mass , and hence momentum . |
| 28 | This worked very well , but in 1988 people were pushing in from the sides instead of joining the queues , and tempers were becoming frayed and the situation somewhat dangerous as people trampled over the numerous electricity cables and water pipes . |
| 29 | She stopped and put her case down for a moment to try and collect herself ; her hands were trembling uncontrollably from the weight . |
| 30 | His head had an odd tilt or cock to it , set on the shoulders as if he were looking up from the bars of a drop-handled bike . |