Example sentences of "[noun sg] be pouring [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The blood is pouring from his body , through the cracks in the table and onto the floor below . |
| 2 | And then the drawbridge was falling , with a clanking and a whirring of machinery and the light was pouring into the courtyard and the Gnomes were cheering and the giants were nodding to one another , and there was nothing for it but to ride away with Snodgrass , with Balor loping along at their side , with Fenella behind in the hands of the Gruagach . |
| 3 | His mouth was pouring with blood and his face was grey . |
| 4 | Carey had covered his face , but blood was pouring through his closed fingers . |
| 5 | ‘ Blood was pouring from him . |
| 6 | Blood was pouring from the side of the Doctor 's face . |
| 7 | Blood was pouring from th antique dealer 's chest . |
| 8 | The sun was pouring into the courtyard and his brawny arms glistened with sweat . |
| 9 | If annual incidence is equal to annual outcidence ( water is pouring into the sink at the same rate as it is emptying ) , then annual prevalence remains at a stable , unchanging level ( the water level in the sink is constant ) . |
| 10 | Finally , if incidence falls below outcidence ( water is pouring into the sink at a slower rate than it is draining off ) , there will be a decrease in annual prevalence ( the water level in the sink drops ) . |
| 11 | Now move in a little closer , and your next shot might show just one corner of the square which we can now see includes an attractive little feature : an ancient water-trough into which a cascade of water is pouring from the mouth of a gargoyle-like creature in stone . |
| 12 | There was a stage at one end , where the fountains usually were , over which water was pouring in a frothing cataract . |
| 13 | One morning she put all her clothes on — 14 T-shirts , socks , a hat — the sweat was pouring off her . ’ |
| 14 | Within a minute the sweat was pouring off him and his jacket sticking to his back . |
| 15 | The sweat was pouring from him when the ultimate moment arrived . |
| 16 | Hardly had the dust settled on the bomb damage when ambitious plans for large-scale rebuilding were pouring off the drawing boards of architects and town planners . |
| 17 | By the time she overlooked the quayside , the decks were vibrating and black diesel smoke was pouring from the funnel . |
| 18 | And by now the strongest following are pouring into the ground and the area known as The Cage is almost solid . |
| 19 | Love was pouring through her and she could not stop it , lying beneath him , helpless to prevent the tears which sprung to her eyes and rolled over her cheeks . |
| 20 | A green liquid was pouring from his broken and battered body . |
| 21 | The war took a potentially catastrophic environmental turn when it was revealed on Jan. 25 that huge quantities of oil were pouring into the Gulf . |
| 22 | Oil is pouring into the sea from a stricken tanker off the coast of Shetland . |
| 23 | Moonlight was pouring over the valley , black and silver , and presently Lugh was standing at the edge of the forest , looking down into the shallow dip that sheltered the great Manor of Tara . |
| 24 | Great pillars of stone swept up to a roof that seemed an infinity away , sunlight was pouring through the stained glass and falling through space to the floor below , and in one of the side chapels a group of French nuns were singing the Angelus by candlelight , their voices weaving round the stone pillars and the shafts of dark and light . |
| 25 | As soon as Tess was on her stool under the cow , and the milk was pouring between her fingers into the bucket , she really felt that her new life was beginning . |
| 26 | Every time I think about it I 'm either too busy or the weather 's too rotten , when I 'm not tired the weather 's pouring with rain or bitterly cold or . |