Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before long England were benefitting from the first of a string of catches dropped by both sides , and their total of 263 was over a hundred more than it would have been had Boycott , Woolmer and Botham not had a second chance . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In addition to changes in existing trades , such as engineering and boot and shoe manufacture , new trades were developing from the 1880s : sewing-machines , cycles , and motor and electrical manufacture . |
| 4 | Although we both knew that we were acting from the best possible motives , I argued , other people were always ready to place a malicious interpretation on their neighbours ' doings and it might therefore be better to wait before breaking the news . |
| 5 | The , we did er our baths were dating from the nineteen fourteen period and they were getting rather old the , the , the boiler was n't too good and we were afraid that it might burst at some time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Mature beech trees were growing from the dry moat 's bed . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | Splinters were radiating from the giant pool ; a crack appeared some twenty yards ahead of Karelius and his nearest companions . |
| 10 | They also worked towards and in alliance with the landed interest in the context of a low-profile , informal , state where there was a shared unease about the pressures for change that were coming from the lower social orders . |
| 11 | The laughter and voices were coming from the closed rooms at the end of the corridor that Ruth had christened the west wing . |
| 12 | However , in this case , it would not be necessary to determine that all the quanta came from the same direction : it would be enough to observe that they all arrived within a very short time interval to be reasonably confident that they were coming from the same burst . |
| 13 | And there 'd been quite a number there , obviously in that burns unit , who were suffering from the same type of er injury . |
| 14 | A few drops of rain were falling from the overheated sky . |
| 15 | They were retreating from the French attack , but they were not running . |
| 16 | Two pairs of hands were missing from the dutiful applause that greeted his speech . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Charles E. ( Buddy ) Roemer , the Governor of Louisiana , announced on March 11 that he was defecting from the Democratic to the Republican Party . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Hed gone through a sticky patch but he was a good player , and was signing from the runaway leaders of the division . |
| 22 | The ordeal began when Mr Arafat was returning from the Sudanese capital , Khartoum , to his headquarters in Tunis . |
| 23 | Ellen was grinning from the other couch , but I was in no mood to humour her amusement . |
| 24 | Music and laughter was spilling from the grand chamber . |
| 25 | and then they computer people , and it , both the firms have gone bust , and each one was suing from the other for , er , insurance |
| 26 | An Arab woman , a Palestinian , was peering from the upper balcony . |
| 27 | 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 " . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |