Example sentences of "[v-ing] from a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a nice young man who wanted a bit of chivvying from a jolly girl-friend . |
| 2 | For me , going on a strict vegan diet where all animal products were banned , where there was no place for tea or coffee , where even fish , eggs , salt and sugar were forbidden , was like leaping from a warm bed into the icy seas of Antarctica . |
| 3 | In urging against the Aristotelian realists that ‘ general and universal , belong not to the real existence of things ; but are the inventions and creatures of the understanding ’ , he is , of course , reaffirming from a different angle his rejection of their ‘ forms ’ , and their talk of the possibility of there being ‘ real ’ definitions of things . |
| 4 | In we saw the Health Authority choosing not to purchase services directly from the N H S for their but purchasing from a voluntary stroke private , privately motivated organization . |
| 5 | They 're part of the changing retail scene which ranges from the modern shopping centres at one end of the spectrum to squat shops , short term let shops and car boot sales at the other , for the other less source of er retailing , source of purchasing from a decreasing number of people erm trade in car boot sales are subject to the same controls as high street traders basically be product safety , erm , but as well as those problems we are increasingly coming across other problems in particularly counterfeit goods , goods like that on sale at car boot sales , quite attractive , wholly illegal and it wo n't be out for about six or nine months yet . |
| 6 | Indeed , it is possible that clinicians would treat cases which they find particularly interesting or challenging from a clinical viewpoint , rather than those which offer the most returns ( in terms of health improvement ) in relation to the cost . |
| 7 | Whether we take the retail prices index minus mortgage interest payments or producer prices , the rate of inflation has declined sharply in the past year and I suspect that the underlying measures of inflation will continue to decline in the next year — I can tell the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) , who is interrupting from a sedentary position , that the underlying rate of inflation compares extremely well with the position under the Labour Government of which he was a member . |
| 8 | Although I do not wholeheartedly agree with the view the author takes of the mechanical world of the train being somehow better than that of nature , I can still find it interesting and thought inducing from a philosophical angle . |
| 9 | Natalie is dying from a rare form of cancer that has attacked her nervous system and is spreading to her bones . |
| 10 | On a stormy night at the beginning of May he watched by the bedside of his brother-in-law , Robert Lovell , as he lay dying from a putrid fever , and tried to comfort Lovell 's young wife Mary , who was listening frantically to her husband 's ‘ loud , deep , unintermitted groans ’ during his final hours . |
| 11 | Those aged above 60 have a pedestrian casualty rate per head of population which is nearly double that of the 20–39 age group , whilst their greater likelihood of dying from a particular accident gives them a fatality rate six and one half times higher . |
| 12 | I have n't heard of anyone dying from a broken ankle — that 's if it is broken . ’ |
| 13 | It would appear they carried on trading from a different address some time beyond that date , though exactly when they stopped has yet to be established . |
| 14 | If a pulse follows too hard on the heels of its predecessor it gets mixed up with the echo of its predecessor returning from a distant target . |
| 15 | The Tomlins family were returning from a week-long holiday in England and Wales . |
| 16 | It is perhaps possible that were Murad II returning from a great victory , Molla Yegan might have come from Bursa to greet him , but such seems not to have been the case . |
| 17 | There were opportunities to flirt with other passengers , moments when young American women returning from a long tour left mothers and aunts below deck , and , standing a few feet away from Edward , they stared out at the Atlantic . |
| 18 | Should a traveller , returning from a far country , bring us an account of men wholly different from any with whom we were ever acquainted ; men who were entirely divested of vice , ambition , or revenge ; who knew no pleasure but friendship , generosity , and public spirit ; we should immediately , from these circumstances , detect the falsehood , and prove him a liar , with the same certainty as if he ha[d] stuffed his narration with stories of centaurs and dragons , miracles and prodigies ( quoted in Freeman 1984 : 95 ) . |
| 19 | The tiny Great Britain scrum half , returning from a five-week absence after suffering a severe stomach muscle strain , guided Bradford to their seventh Trophy semi-final and a date with Castleford at Odsal on January 9 . |
| 20 | On returning from a recent trip to the States , one Telegraph staff member presented seven single-dollar bills culled from various back pockets to Lloyds ' branch on the Isle of Dogs . |
| 21 | Kenneth came across it while returning from a far-flung artist 's studio where he 'd been to purchase a John Miller watercolour for my birthday . |
| 22 | The most likely candidate was Bird Vincent , the Saginaw County , Michigan , prosecutor and first world war veteran who died of kidney failure , aged 51 , on 18 July 1931 , while returning from a congressional visit to Hawaii . |
| 23 | Returning from a five-day visit to Guinea on Feb. 23 , 1990 , Momoh declared that the smuggling trade between Sierra Leone and Guinea continued to be a stumbling block to the recovery of the fragile economies of the two countries . |
| 24 | Last season , in his first collection after returning from a lengthy absence to Chloe he re-established his presence with the prettiest reminiscences of the Seventies seen on Paris runways . |
| 25 | He and his wife were returning from a short break in Venice ( ’ no problems with public transport or with the plane ’ ) and arrived at King 's Cross station . |
| 26 | On Feb. 23 a Swedish parliamentary delegation returning from a two-week visit to South Africa recommended the maintenance of Swedish economic sanctions until the outcome of the referendum was known . |
| 27 | The tragic accident happened ten days ago at the family 's Regent Crescent home in Carrickfergus after returning from a seven-day holiday in Jersey . |
| 28 | Fifty-six hours in the relative luxury of a two-berth , soft-class compartment with Robert , an engineer , returning from a Siberian fishing trip . |
| 29 | Even so , with her suitcase as well , we look like holidaymakers returning from a wet week away . |
| 30 | I rather think that the RN instructors on my course must have suffered at the hands of the Customs on returning from a foreign tour as they really gave us a hard time . |