Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] from [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She has been wandering from post to post for six years , having left her home in , I suspect , scandalous circumstances . |
| 5 | A lightweight chiffon shirt ( right ) is the perfect cover over swimsuits or bodies when you 're gliding from beach to bar . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Now having been discharged they 're convalescing from surgery with a family in Oxfordshire away from the glare of publicity . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Tell Corps we 're flying from dawn to dusk . |
| 10 | But the chain was trading as usual and Mr Chapman 's outlook remained buoyant : ‘ The business has been going from strength to strength . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | WHILE a growing number of British companies are switching from petrol to diesel-engined cars to improve fuel consumption and cut costs , one company , originally at the vanguard of the diesel movement , has dumbfounded the experts by reversing its decision and going back to petrol . |
| 13 | Each year , about half-a-million workers are switching from cash to payment through a bank account . |
| 14 | George Bush has been swerving from side to side as Jekyll battles Hyde for command of the president 's soul . |
| 15 | So if you are moving from punchcard to electronic ( of the same gauge ) , your ribber , rib transfer carriage , colour changer and so on , will all fit your electronic machine . |
| 16 | I thought that , instead of speaking from his notes that he 'd been speaking from year after year , he was reassessing what he was doing . |
| 17 | Policewoman , Leslie Harrison , who was stabbed in the heart , has been speaking from hospital about her ordeal . |
| 18 | Also in the reckoning could be young defender Sean Gregan , who has been suffering from tendonitis in the ankle , and according to Tait , ‘ would n't be far away . ’ |
| 19 | Taylor wo n't know until tomorrow whether David Batty of Leeds is fit , while Paul Gascoigne , despite his wonder goal in Seville , has been suffering from 'flu for more than a week . |
| 20 | The people , on the other hand , are suffering from famine at a time when the patricians are hoarding the grain-harvest but are themselves easily manipulated by the Tribunes . |
| 21 | Obviously , if you have a heavy cold , a headache , are suffering from lack of sleep or are jet lagged , you should not be flying . |
| 22 | The core businesses are still profitable , but are suffering from lack of investment , McErlain said . |
| 23 | The US spokesman declared that " we are starting from zero to fashion a new kind of relationship " . |
| 24 | If they 're gon na be driving from village to village , they might as well work from a police station and drive from village to village in a transit van or a police vehicle . |
| 25 | However , Mrs Knelle seemed to be driving from house to house to exchange news , and I thought the old Ireland persisted around Lough Corrib as well as might be expected , or better . |
| 26 | ‘ Today , let's imagine that I 'm a prisoner and I 'm escaping from prison by boat , ’ said Anne . |
| 27 | Not that you did much , you 'd be going from class to class entertaining the kids with your dances and stories . |
| 28 | The Cowley based company Unipart appears to be going from strength to strength despite the gloom in the rest of the industry of the last three years . |
| 29 | Money was the issue , because he used to spend his money on hobbies and I 'd never know what I 'd be getting from week to week and some weeks I 'd not get anything . |
| 30 | He appears to be moving from place to place , and we want to speak to Mr Chaudhry about abduction |