Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] from [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ BEST decision I 've ever made in my life , ’ said Des Walker , gazing down from the terrace of his Genoese apartment at sunlit rocks and ocean . |
| 2 | Ember , thumping down from the sunflower against the bitter chocolate of the Martian sky . |
| 3 | Scotch Whisky is inseparable from Scotland … of all the spirits mankind has distilled , refined and enhanced from nature 's huge store of goodness , Scotch Whisky is the noblest … a distillation of the natural riches with which Scotland is so abundantly endowed … clear waters tumbling down from the hills and across the moors , though peat and over granite … fields of golden barley … the cool , pure air . |
| 4 | Dyson let the clutch in with a belated jerk which brought some hard and heavy object tumbling down from the dashboard to hit Bill Waddy on the knee and roll away out of sight beneath the front seats . |
| 5 | As he entered the paved courtyard the rain came whipping in from the sea , lashing against the car and obliterating everything . |
| 6 | A midwinter day … the wind to the north , the sky in rags , hail whipping in from the islands in dark squalls . |
| 7 | And , every twenty minutes or so , a storm broke : thunder rumbled , lightning flickered , and tropical rain came crashing down from the showerheads fitted in the ceiling . |
| 8 | ‘ Because he believed that Charles just is n't going to make it — and the sovereign 's relationship with her heir has always been difficult — Prince Philip urged her to assert that she had no intention of stepping down from the throne , that she must and will remain for the duration . ’ |
| 9 | It was definitely time to say farewell and stepping down from the canal at that point I found myself on the very street of my son 's house . |
| 10 | Many gardeners believe that an informal pool should be planted liberally , with waterlilies obscuring areas of the water surface , and reeds and rushes tumbling in from the garden . |
| 11 | The Vicar then took the text for his sermon from the second lesson , ‘ God loveth a cheerful giver ’ , and was so carried away by his own rhetoric that he absent-mindedly helped himself to most of the grapes hanging down from the top of the pulpit . |
| 12 | She liked the moss-covered cobbles of the yard , and appreciated the random design of the shaggy tufts of grass hanging down from the eaves of the ancient stable blocks ahead . |
| 13 | Route II came in 1943 with Brian Kellet climbing on from the chimney rift of Route I to cross the upper slabs . |
| 14 | People were climbing down from the truck and seemed to be forming another queue . |
| 15 | When we were driving down from the border towards Beni Abbes , we quaked every time we saw police or soldiers . |
| 16 | The character of the whole place is best assessed by walking down from the castle rather than climbing east to west . |
| 17 | Considered as an institutional bridge , Schloss Hartheim was part of my winding down from the experience of the KZ . |
| 18 | In a gallery of stalactites , baobab roots seeking water winding down from the roof , we asked Sapan what the island was called . |
| 19 | Many of the stories were based on rumour , although others , like the ones about A&R men flying all over Europe to see them and high-ranking company staff jetting in from the States , were in fact true . |
| 20 | Suddenly I stared in amazement , for below me , sloping down from the church , was the Fair field , a broad sweep of land entirely covered with tinkers , caravans , and horses . |
| 21 | It had a long entrance passage sloping down from the east . |
| 22 | The engine compartment had to be outside the cockpit for acoustic and thermal insulation so we introduced a vertical backlight for good rear visibility and blended it into the fins sloping down from the roof , which gave a certain lightness to the rear pillars , This solution has become a constant feature on all Pininfarina Ferraris up to the Testarossa . |
| 23 | He lifted a hand off his cup in weary salute to one of his sergeants. a very dark Scot in a crumpled grey suit who was walking over from the counter , and the man altered course to sit opposite him . |
| 24 | Drinking at a pavement café on Ben Yehuda was for each of them a way of signing off from the mission . |
| 25 | You could hear them squeaking off from a distance . |
| 26 | Every time we struck a chord people would come tearing up from the bar to tell us to turn that fucking racket down . |
| 27 | Nearer , a blur of smoke and mist is simmering up from the snow , among all the spikiness of spire and steeple , chimney-stack and telegraph pole , the pinnacles of chapels and ventilators of schools . |
| 28 | The streets ran in a regular criss-cross pattern sloping up from the Railway Works which lay behind a high camouflaged wall . |
| 29 | The next minute she was leaping up from the bed , striding across the room and snatching the door open . |
| 30 | Somehow she 'd imagined Penry leaping up from the sofa at the sight of her , angry at her intrusion . |