Example sentences of "[v-ing] from the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Knossos , the two main chambers of the Throne Sanctuary and the principal chamber of the Snake Goddess Sanctuary had bench-altars ; at Phaistos , there were two chambers with benches opening from the Central Court . |
| 2 | There were three doors opening from the little hall . |
| 3 | But Fen seemed quite happy , relaxing over his coffee which he kept replenishing from the large pot he had ordered , exchanging remarks with the landlord which revealed that he was a regular customer here . |
| 4 | ‘ Enjoying yourself ? ’ asked Constance , appearing from the back garden . |
| 5 | Low comfortable chairs had been set out in a square ; too comfortable for-some , because there was a distinct buzz of snoring from the other side of a rack of trade journals , broken only by the bats ' wing rustle of folding and refolding newspaper . |
| 6 | He was sobered to find that many Tahitians were already dying from the venereal diseases bequeathed to them on a previous visit . |
| 7 | ‘ I told the chap two minutes , ’ said Pooley , returning from the front door . |
| 8 | The ordeal began when Mr Arafat was returning from the Sudanese capital , Khartoum , to his headquarters in Tunis . |
| 9 | Six months after returning from the Soviet Union , Nizan spoke at the International Congress for the Defence of Culture of the possibilities in the current socio-political climate of establishing a genuinely human society freed from class divisions and class oppression . |
| 10 | It has indeed been a brilliant season for the Ward Park club , with Alex Lightbody returning from the British Isles championships in Worthing in July with the singles title under his belt . |
| 11 | It has indeed been a brilliant season for the Ward Park club , with Alex Lightbody returning from the British Isles championships in Worthing in July with the singles title under his belt . |
| 12 | A couple of bare-breasted girls in sarongs were returning from the communal laundry , the washing balanced on their heads , their breasts moving gently as they sauntered by , giggling at some private joke . |
| 13 | ‘ Thank you , General , ’ said the Doctor , returning from the quiet corner of the camp where he had been working . |
| 14 | Hed gone through a sticky patch but he was a good player , and was signing from the runaway leaders of the division . |
| 15 | Why else should I still be yearning after a man whom I knew to be a murderer while shrinking from the innocent Syl whose only crime was that I found him unattractive ? |
| 16 | He felt cold , his arms and legs aching from the rough ride of the previous day . |
| 17 | Her first impulse , therefore , when she saw the vicar 's sister-in-law , Penelope , walking from the underground station just in front of her was to hurry past and pretend she had n't seen her . |
| 18 | Walking from the Regimental Headquarters to the Mess there is time to reflect on the day and think about the future . |
| 19 | Climbing from the warm bed , she stood at the side for a moment to stare down at him . |
| 20 | It was even possible to scent resin oozing from the hot wood of a dock , the air of warmth and freedom . |
| 21 | The personality , something built up by interaction in the world , may become rigid and show signs of extreme wear — it is like a mask which is becoming stiff and cumbersome — but the spirit is becoming freer , disengaging from the normal functions of everyday life . |
| 22 | Overseas candidates who are applying from the following countries are advised to submit their applications to UCCA through the appropriate overseas students ' office in London as listed in an appendix to the UCCA handbook : Cyprus , Ghana ( private candidates only ) , Guyana , India , Luxembourg , Mauritius , Tanzania and Thailand . |
| 23 | Overseas candidates who are applying from the following countries are advised to submit their application to UCAS through the appropriate overseas students ' office in London listed in the UCAS handbook : Cyprus , Ghana ( private candidates only ) , Guyana , India , Luxembourg , Mauritius , Tanzania , Thailand . |
| 24 | This effect can vitiate scientific observation , as when seventeenth century experimenters , familiar with the concepts of post-Galilean mechanics but not of electrostatic attraction and repulsion , regularly reported observing chaff falling as though by gravitation , or mechanically rebounding from the electrified bodies which attracted them . |
| 25 | There is little great poetry that has not come from the frost of sorrow , and this is the supreme compensation that the creative man has this faculty of distilling from the very substance of sorrow , a beauty that transforms the world into paradise . |
| 26 | Music and laughter was spilling from the grand chamber . |
| 27 | They reared to an alarming angle , the tractor pointing to the roof , the wheels slipping in the juice cascading from the broken stalks . |
| 28 | Hitch could hear shouting from the other boat , though most of the words were indistinct . |
| 29 | Only when the ants are present , however , does the plant produce significant numbers of food bodies , which are lipid-storing single-celled ones developing from the adaxial surface of the petiole . |
| 30 | Although interest in soil erosion has developed in the late 1970s ( e.g. Morgan , 1979 ) it is a paradox that earlier work , for example developing from the Universal Soil Loss Equation ( Wischmeier , 1976 ) , did not materialize . |