Example sentences of "[v-ing] from [art] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | There were three doors opening from the little hall . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Enjoying yourself ? ’ asked Constance , appearing from the back garden . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Whe he has a chest infection you can hear him wheezing from the next room |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Natalie is dying from a rare form of cancer that has attacked her nervous system and is spreading to her bones . |
| 16 | After two years it was found that the fish eaters had up to 30 per cent less chance of dying from a second heart attack than those who had been told nothing about fish . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I have n't heard of anyone dying from a broken ankle — that 's if it is broken . ’ |
| 20 | We have not yet been sufficiently educated to realize that the risk of dying from the greatest killer disease in the Western world could be drastically reduced if only we took preventative measures by eating sensibly and looking after our bodies . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The Tomlins family were returning from a week-long holiday in England and Wales . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |