Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pron] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of being cosily tucked up in her bunk near the bar , she surprisingly came walking towards me from the sleeping car forward of Filmer 's , her diamonds lighting small bright fires with every step . |
| 2 | Diamond Head was leaping at me from the right . |
| 3 | The lower tier would be known as the Board for Local Authority Higher Education , its membership consisting of Christopher Ball as Chairman ; six representatives of local authorities ; six from the DES ; six from institutions , made up of two from the Committee of Directors of Polytechnics , two from the National Association of Teachers of Further and Higher Education , one from the Association of Principals of Colleges , and one from the Standing Conference of Principals and Directors of Colleges and Institutes of Higher Education ; and three others , consisting of one from the Trades Union Congress , one from the Council of National Academic Awards , and one jointly from the Business and Technician Education Councils . |
| 4 | During the day we lay up in the desert , camouflaging ourselves with pieces of hessian sacking against the R.A.F. patrols who were out looking for us from the air . |
| 5 | Passing beneath it from the lay part of the church , the nave , to the chancel , where the priest celebrated , figuratively marked the rite of passage from earth to heaven . |
| 6 | The surety often takes the position from motives of friendship to the debtor , and generally not as a result of any direct bargaining between him and the creditor , or in consideration of any remuneration passing to him from the creditor . |
| 7 | ‘ The semi-detached pair on the right of yours , looking at them from the road , belong to one of the Oxford colleges . |
| 8 | As I did so I became aware of a youngish man with long hair looking at me from the pavemented walk on the Hammersmith side of the river . |
| 9 | She stood looking at me from the end of the bed . |
| 10 | I could tell that my father was looking at me from the other end of the table , swilling his juice round in his glass and staring at my head as I bent over my plate . |
| 11 | I could see I could see Li er Charlie and Pete looking at me from the other side of the room , Charlie smiled and I just did I just went like that , you know ? |
| 12 | But I am looking at something from the previous century . |
| 13 | Agnes started and went towards her mother , who was looking at her from the kitchen doorway . |
| 14 | She lifted a hand to shade her eyes and Martin Jackson 's face appeared on the backdrop of light , as if he were looking at her from the sun 's centre . |
| 15 | Looking at you from the other side of the desk I might feel you have misdiagnosed yourself . |
| 16 | Looking at it from the club 's point of view I can see how this ban arose in a situation like this . |
| 17 | Now we are looking at it from the point of view of anticipating a loss which will trigger the grief response . |
| 18 | Looking at it from the housewife 's point of view her phrasing of these questions would be : |
| 19 | Looking at it from the point of view revealed in their rhetoric , the pupils were not ignoring their teacher as such . |
| 20 | well I do feel that a car is looked at from a performance point of view , I mean I agree that a lot of bad drivers , but I still think you could help a lot by getting the design of the car right , because sometimes accidents do happen , even though nobody is really at fault and er I feel strongly that were looking at it from the wrong way round . |
| 21 | But looking at it from the other point , that 's the you know the word entitlement comes from you know , I I think I 'm entitled to twenty days ' training , but whether I need twenty days ' training to be |
| 22 | Eight years on Symphony Release 3 has just been launched and Janet Swift examines how it measures up to today 's standards — looking at it from the viewpoint of existing users and those who are contemplating buying new business software . |
| 23 | Maggie looked blankly at the face grinning at her from the queue , and as she pushed a cup of tea across the counter she said , ‘ You were saying ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I think when you go back to your desk you will find a letter waiting for you from the Commissioner . |
| 25 | And the one that had been writhing on the ground recovered itself , lunging towards her from the other side . |
| 26 | We are in an orchard with a sunken road leading into it from the main road . |
| 27 | It was planned as a pilgrimage church with a large crypt for the relics and with stairways leading to it from the aisles . |
| 28 | It was rather like going down into a horrid , dark , earthy hole , where dull crimson firs burned and where grinning creatures might be peering at you from the shadows . |
| 29 | I would admire any conductor just for getting through it from the first note to the last without too many disasters P there 's a pitfall a minute . |
| 30 | To ease a headache , lie down and place three of these crystals on your forehead — one pointing up to the crown and two pointing towards it from the left and right sides . |