Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The four opposition parties announced on Nov. 13 that they were withdrawing from the parliamentary elections set for Dec. 8 in protest at the failure of their demand for a new voters ' register . |
| 3 | Mature beech trees were growing from the dry moat 's bed . |
| 4 | laughter so that by the time we came to do the five practical ev exercises you know everybody was in a very relaxed and jolly mood but I think that 's was it 's about but from the results that we were getting from the practical exercises clearly what he said had taken root you know roll key words , roll them around in your mind er try running through letters of the alphabet to match up with your key word chains and you know if if if the word is ball try roll see if you can get it to rhyme and ultimately the creme de la creme is if you can actually get the title of a song or |
| 5 | Splinters were radiating from the giant pool ; a crack appeared some twenty yards ahead of Karelius and his nearest companions . |
| 6 | The laughter and voices were coming from the closed rooms at the end of the corridor that Ruth had christened the west wing . |
| 7 | A few drops of rain were falling from the overheated sky . |
| 8 | They were retreating from the French attack , but they were not running . |
| 9 | Two pairs of hands were missing from the dutiful applause that greeted his speech . |
| 10 | Tory leader Coun Tony Richmond said yesterday Labour members were departing from the all-party agreement by blaming Mr Freeman for not having yet visited . |
| 11 | Daak was hanging from the rear platform , legs dangling , but he had embedded the teeth of the chainsword in one of the armour-plated side panels . |
| 12 | Charles E. ( Buddy ) Roemer , the Governor of Louisiana , announced on March 11 that he was defecting from the Democratic to the Republican Party . |
| 13 | Followers of the shotokai style broke away from the parent group of shotokan because they believed that it was deviating from the traditional teachings laid down by Funakoshi . |
| 14 | Hed gone through a sticky patch but he was a good player , and was signing from the runaway leaders of the division . |
| 15 | The ordeal began when Mr Arafat was returning from the Sudanese capital , Khartoum , to his headquarters in Tunis . |
| 16 | Ellen was grinning from the other couch , but I was in no mood to humour her amusement . |
| 17 | Music and laughter was spilling from the grand chamber . |
| 18 | and then they computer people , and it , both the firms have gone bust , and each one was suing from the other for , er , insurance |
| 19 | An Arab woman , a Palestinian , was peering from the upper balcony . |
| 20 | On Aug. 6 , the rival Independent National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( INPFL ) , led by Prince Yormie Johnson , announced that it was withdrawing from the interim government , accusing Sawyer of giving senior posts to people from parties " which have failed the Liberian people in the past " . |
| 21 | Early in the New Year the organisation was moving from the Dickensian building in the city centre which it had inhabited for over fifty years to a new purpose-built high-rise office block south of the river , an area not long cleared of old slum dwellings and deratinised . |
| 22 | A wisp of smoke was rising from the other side of a clump of bushes on the edge of one hayfield where the hay had been stacked . |
| 23 | Theda demanded , indignation warring with the hurt she was experiencing from the dreadful blow that had been dealt her , the vicious attack to which she had been subjected . |
| 24 | The music was coming from the closed door . |
| 25 | He chose the time carefully , lurked and caught Dersingham as he was coming from the stable yard after having driven himself out . |
| 26 | With her thoughts far away and her eyes fixed on the distant horizon , she did not notice where she was going — and as the tall , broad-shouldered man who was coming from the opposite direction was too deeply absorbed in his own reflections to be aware of his surroundings , there was a sudden abrupt collision . |
| 27 | The lorry , which was coming from the local gravel-pit , drew up , and the Arab driver put out his head : ‘ Where are you going ? ’ he asked in French . |
| 28 | The perfume that had breathed sweetness over the cool stream was coming from the delicious brown girl . |
| 29 | And William began to run from the approaching cart , which was piled high with the bodies of the plague victims , and as he ran the streets became the familiar streets of his childhood and he knew that all the time he was running from the terrible cart he was getting closer and closer to the dark house by the railway embankment with its shuttered windows and its locked door , and that this was more terrible to him than anything in his history books . |
| 30 | At independence in 1980 , the country was suffering from the limited coverage of the education system under the white minority regime . |