Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [v-ing] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two other girls had been grazed and bruised , and were obviously suffering from shock . |
| 2 | Many were already suffering from pellet wounds inflicted by the shotguns of Chuck 's hunters , and the last dregs of their resistance crumbled before the menacing line of armed men . |
| 3 | They all got totally zonkers and were like running from machine to machine making and Benguiat the , not Benguiat , Brillo , was yelling it should be like this all the time . |
| 4 | The Methodists were nonetheless going from strength to strength , and noting that they listened to ‘ hearty , racy , cutting and unctuous speeches which surely would never be forgotten . ’ |
| 5 | As of late February Monrovia was said to be calm , with emergency food and other supplies flowing in , and some shops reopening , although relief agencies emphasised that people were still dying from starvation . |
| 6 | According to a WHO report published on Oct. 16 , almost 3,000,000 people were still dying from tuberculosis every year . |
| 7 | His mouth was wet and his eyes were still flicking from side to side . |
| 8 | They were clearly suffering from jet-lag . |
| 9 | The report added that almost half of the total number of people infected with the AIDS virus were also suffering from tuberculosis and that the time taken for an HIV carrier to develop AIDS appeared to be " dramatically " shorter among people also infected with tuberculosis . |
| 10 | I think we were also suffering from jet-lag . |
| 11 | Why this 1% of 17 year olds still had a non-retractile foreskin was not stated , but data from a subsequent study suggest that they were probably suffering from balanitis xerotica obliterans . |
| 12 | Amina and Miriam were continually wandering from house to house in the compound , searching for something new to amuse themselves . |
| 13 | It was the most inspiring experience of my life and the visit provided food for my hungry spirit which by then was slowly dying from malnutrition . |
| 14 | He got round in par figures , but was obviously playing from memory . |
| 15 | He was only missing from Palace line-ups from that time as a result of injury or illness , though his playing record demonstrates that he was prone to neither , and it was while we had Billy Callender in goal that Palace came closest to returning to Division 2 in 1928–29 , when we finished as runners-up to Charlton on goal average . |
| 16 | Alina looked out to where the wagon was already disappearing from sight ; and she nodded , barely perceptibly . |
| 17 | They had a point , I was forced to admit , since I was already suffering from frostbite in the toes . |
| 18 | Thus , the JanSport backpacks which were once Lo Life standard issue are now widely derided , as Moet and his friends turn to more sophisticated techniques : ‘ The way me and my friends do it now is to wear a suit and tie like we was just comin' from work , and carry a travel bag to carry another suit . |
| 19 | The back of the blue van was just vanishing from view . |
| 20 | Well the difference was like moving from purgatory into heaven really , because er in the Nissan hut I had one tap of cold water , that 's all , every bit of water had to be heated on a gas stove , and every bit of water for a bath had to be heated in an old fashioned er boiler in which you lit the fire under and of course when you came here we had a ni an electric cooker , er straight away |
| 21 | His face was blackened , he was bleeding from the head and was possibly suffering from shock . |
| 22 | Moreover , Europe was still recovering from wartime devastation , and had achieved neither political coherence nor a sound enough military/ industrial base to provide a viable alternative to the North American connection . |
| 23 | Bardot was still recovering from shock after narrowly missing being shot earlier this year by hunters killing her pets . |
| 24 | He was still suffering from jet-lag but opted to plunge in at the deep end against Monaghan . |
| 25 | Despite admitting she was still suffering from jet lag she was forced to spend lunchtime with Prince Charles at the official home of Prime Minister Hyun Soong-Jong and his wife . |
| 26 | Maybe she was still suffering from jet lag or , possibly , from the deeply upsetting and traumatic visit to the hospital this morning . |
| 27 | This landlord was clearly profiting from involvement in the market in basic foodstuffs : a market which stray references in contemporary chronicles and letters show to have been lively in the Seine basin during the ninth century . |
| 28 | The woman , who was probably suffering from haemophilia , felt it was necessary to approach Jesus secretly because her illness made her ‘ unclean ’ according to the Law . |
| 29 | With a tragic stroke of luck that set venereology back many decades , the patient from whom he collected the pus was also suffering from syphilis , and Hunter went on to develop both gonorrhoea and syphilis . |
| 30 | Arthritic and near blind , he found he was also suffering from cancer and in human years would have been aged around 90 . |