Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All these legislative changes have made it increasingly difficult for local authorities to avoid appearing to lurch from crisis to crisis . |
| 2 | In the pursuit of his fortune , he had deliberately travelled many long and distant journeys , always seeking to escape from memories of Beth and their time together . |
| 3 | Then I asked , as we were going to go from century to century , if I could be allowed to collect a few bits of paraphernalia as we went along — odd little items that had taken my fancy which would then turn up in other stories . |
| 4 | For those who are going to progress from reformation in faith to reformation in feeling Hilton brings into focus a vivid sense of the existential insecurity of the soul in the world . |
| 5 | Apart from the pure nostalgia generated among those of us who know the route well , it was enlightening to hear from Russell of the practical problems and time involved in making such a film — 200+ hours and many journeys , hoping to be at the right place at the right time — and , as always , the great unknown — the weather . |
| 6 | They were not going to escape from hell in the twentieth century craft . |
| 7 | We now , I think er , going to hear from members of the Management Team , more detailed information on working progress and priority issues . |
| 8 | Now it 's obviously going to vary from establishment to establishment , but do you feel that we perhaps still have some way to go ? |
| 9 | But we er are welcoming the fact that there is a recognition of the rising population of Wales er in giving us this er this additional seat er primarily the additional population has not come in industrial South Wales which er er which er people think of perhaps as the most typically Welsh area , it 's actually in two counties of Clwyd and Dyfed that are erm growing most rapidly because of lifestyle migration , retirement migration erm into those two areas and that is why the additional seat , if you can put it that way , er takes from all the other four of course , is is the mid and West Wales seat which has been compared by the honourable member for Cornwall er tonight and it has only got a population of four hundred and one thousand but on the other hand of course it is such an extensive seat because the population sparsity in that area is much , much worse than even in Cornwall and therefore it is going to stretch from South of Milford Haven to the Llanrwst area really within probably twenty miles of the North Wales coast , it 's a who it 's the whole of two counties plus one additional very badly populated constituency erm in in the county of Gwynedd , an awkward constituency but one that we are certainly looking forward fighting and winning to give us the five out of five er now that er the boundaries are going through tonight and obviously it 's all in line really er to look at the other , the third order of course , the question of the registration of overseas voters in the nineteen ninety two election overseas voters had their first opportunity to participate in Westminster elections . |
| 10 | Peter Eatherley , head of T&L 's speciality sweeteners division , admits that food and drinks customers are not going to switch from aspartame to sucralose overnight . |
| 11 | I was to have broken my leg attempting to get from bed to the top of the stars . |
| 12 | Indeed , for a country struggling to emerge from years of war , the election may be a mixed blessing . |
| 13 | The cab was , very gently , beginning to sway from side to side . |
| 14 | Above us the sky is beginning to turn from black to purple , and the walls of the canyon are faintly visible as immense dark shapes looming overhead . |
| 15 | It stood four square , its dark red walls half covered with large-leafed Virginia creeper just beginning to change from green to gold and russet colours . |
| 16 | By the end of the 18th century , however , the emphasis was beginning to change from fieldwork to excavation . |
| 17 | However , overloading of certain services remains a major problem , and reports have been received of passengers having to stand from Birmingham to Aberystwyth ! |
| 18 | I had taken to finishing off the flat beer left in cans by the members of Norris 's itinerant card school after its frequent visits chez nous , and was seriously considering starting to steal from bookshops in an attempt to raise some cash . |
| 19 | Now , having already risked a considerable outlay on refitting and storing the ship , he was faced with the possibility of having to sail from Polruan with several hands short of a full complement . |
| 20 | We also have to provide support for the A N C for thirty years a banned organization having to start from scratch in a country where the majority is supported but having no party officers or structures in place because if we suspend support to them or reduce it it will be like having no support of them all this time and just when the bird is about to fly you clip its wings . |
| 21 | Her eyes , threatening to turn from amber to gold as the two of them sat there over a casual dinner on her balcony , briefly dared him to develop the theme , just before she dropped them . |
| 22 | Learning to parascend from water-skis at fifty-nine ? |
| 23 | ‘ but an excess of out door ceremony tended and still tends to prevent the female from acquiring the proper use of her limbs , and of learning to bound from rock to rock with the celerity of the fleecy rangers of the mountains . ’ |
| 24 | He added , ‘ Michael Crawford , gangling , gauche and trying to escape from life through Oriental mysticism , achieves some really hilarious effects with his alternating bouts of unworldly chatter and inexplicable rage . ’ |
| 25 | The other religious groups were Old Believers ( that is , Schismatics ) trying to escape from persecution in Russia . |
| 26 | Many young people who carry on the habit on their own , after first experimenting with friends , are trying to escape from unhappiness at home , perhaps because their parents are quarrelling . |
| 27 | They had shot and killed Chris Gueffroy , the last person to die trying to escape from East to West Germany , as he attempted to cross the border to West Berlin on Feb. 6 , 1989 . |
| 28 | Aeroflot is also hoping to fly from Stansted to the United States later this year , now that traffic agreements between the two countries for the state airline have been agreed and when long range aircraft become available . |
| 29 | Since deregulation , buses are only trying to get from A to B as fast as possible in order to make as much profit as possible . |
| 30 | He says he set out last night and is still trying to get from Bristol to Bracknell . |