Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a few moments she stood watching him as with quick little movements he fed himself , his sharp eyes darting suspiciously from side to side . |
| 2 | The ginger tomcat glared up at her , its tail lashing furiously from side to side . |
| 3 | ‘ Ah telt ye that before , ’ he recalled , his boozed eyes gazing emptily from side to side . |
| 4 | He stood there in her crotch , weaving sinuously from side to side , hunching his shoulders , his flat little head squealing down into her face . |
| 5 | This means checking personally from time to time the output from your area , whether it be a shoelace , a bottle of beer , a written report , half an hour 's advice or a telephone call to a client . |
| 6 | Now to do that effectively I think it 's essential that I get you to participate in what 's happening so from time to time I 'm going to ask you to answer questions , sometimes by writing them down , sometimes by shows of hands erm sometimes by er reacting back erm to the questions that I ask . |
| 7 | But added to that , I can well remember staying at Kettleborough Chequers erm and er walking along from Kettleborough to Brandeston erm th the very next morning after I 'd come here and I think it was before I think it was quite likely before we had we had actually met , I do n't know whether it was the first day or the second |
| 8 | From there he easily caught a British Airways flight staging through from Mauritius to London . |
| 9 | In 1937 , 15 million people ( one-third of the population ) were holidaying away from home for a week or more . |
| 10 | Er it 's like kids or people walking through from Road to Road . |
| 11 | God knows I tried when I realised what was happening to us , although it was like a starving man walking away from food for me . |
| 12 | One reviewer slammed the 40-minute ‘ Blue Room ’ single as ‘ hippy excrement ’ , while the finale of ‘ UF Orb ’ finds the dolphins blasting off from Earth in a freshwater spaceship , leaving mankind to stew in his own toxic waste . |
| 13 | One evening at the end of May a middle-aged man was walking home from Shaston to the village of Marlott in the Vale of Blackmoor . |
| 14 | I remember one evening when we were returning home from Sitanarhi in the bullock cart . |
| 15 | Martin Clarke , 31 , of Witney , Oxfordshire , a ground worker , was returning home from work in December last year when he hit David Adams , killing him instantly . |
| 16 | Four minutes before the end of this game , Oxford United 's chances of returning home from Molyneux with any points looked distinctly bleak . |
| 17 | She and her husband were driving home from Eastbourne in Fanshawe 's Jaguar . |
| 18 | These arguments yield the curve in Fig. 6.1 , sloping downwards from left to right , becoming less and less steep and cutting the horizontal axis at the natural unemployment percentage . |
| 19 | Violette is driving up from Geneva with from what I can make out is her latest beau and two friends . |
| 20 | Driving back from Newhaven to Tunbridge Wells that afternoon , he had only to think of the empty house and the solitary evening awaiting him at Farriers to rebel against caution and risk a diversion to Ockham House . |
| 21 | Rufus , driving back from London with the hashish his dealer swore was genuine Indian charas and a package of best Colombian , picked her off the street — ‘ a piece of property that is found ownerless ’ . |
| 22 | From left : climbing out from Guernsey with a visiting training sailing ship below ; Trislander over Alderney , whose airport may be seen in the background ; the island of Herm on a hazy autumn day , with Sark in the background ; Trislander 's single-pilot-panel — very functional , with mixture knobs oddly set on top |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | They had been driving northwards from Copenhagen for half an hour along the beach road when Rune posed the question . |
| 25 | " Not to be mentioned in the same breath with … " she said , looking nervously from Frederica to painted signature . |
| 26 | There is no reason to suppose that these beautifully caparisoned vessels were in use only round the coast of Thera ; they were probably not intended for long voyages on the open sea , but we can imagine that very similar passenger ships plied round the coasts of Crete , gliding elegantly from bay to bay . |
| 27 | Looking keenly from side to side , she walked quickly along the path in the direction taken by the boys . |
| 28 | Lurching slowly from side to side , becoming faster and steadier , the Vimy rose into the air followed by cheers from the spectators and smiles from the Vickers team . |
| 29 | Onomatopoeic effects are generally of this kind , as we see from the opening sentence of D. H. Lawrence 's Odour of Chrysanthemums ( see 3.4 ) : The small locomotive engine , Number 4 , came clanking , stumbling down from Selston with seven full wagons . |
| 30 | From D. H. Lawrence , Odour of Chrysanthemums The small locomotive engine , Number 4 , came clanking , stumbling down from Selston with seven full waggons ( 1 ) . |