Example sentences of "was [adv] [v-ing] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was constantly dashing from the shop floor to the offices , to his car , to his suppliers , to his customers and back again . |
| 2 | Joe played in every remaining Southern League match in that 1907–08 season and in our three FA Cup ties — and he was only missing from the Palace defence by reason of injuries during the next seven seasons . |
| 3 | ‘ After saluting him while he was eagerly drinking from the cup which had been presented , the dagger of an attendant pierced him through . ’ |
| 4 | This means that he did not consider that by taking the brahmacārya vow he was necessarily withdrawing from the life of society , which was one reason why he resented being called an ascetic . |
| 5 | Petty officer Dave Cockeram , who is in charge of the engines , said the crew averaging 50 men was easy going from the captain down , but definitely not laid back . |
| 6 | The black paint on the body was already peeling from the heat , though the Doctor guessed from the depth of the dust layer that it had n't been there more than a couple of days . |
| 7 | The Financial Times of Jan. 28 noted that the co-operative and private sector was already reeling from the previous week 's monetary reform , having " relied heavily on the large cash economy and soaring prices to fuel its takeoff " . |
| 8 | The half-hour was just ringing from the massive bell tower , there was a muffled sound of organ practice from the chapel , the light was burning in the porter 's lodge and the gate lay open — but not to me . |
| 9 | The Long Beach of those days was just emerging from the sleaze of being a naval base ; its downtown was full of porn-movie houses , run-down discount shops and ‘ boutiques ’ for the geriatric , who formed a large part of its population . |
| 10 | Brother Cadfael was just emerging from the door of the infirmary in mid-morning , after replenishing Brother Edmund 's stores in the medicine cupboard , when they rode in at the gatehouse before his eyes . |
| 11 | He was just turning from the sink , kettle in hand . |
| 12 | She was just walking from the building when she saw Paul Fisher . |
| 13 | This kind of ‘ motivational congruence between practitioners and clients ’ was generally missing from the studies in the first wave of effectiveness research , they suggest ( p. 338 ) . |
| 14 | Britain was still recovering from the long hard years of the second World War and the population had long felt the pinch of rationing and having to make do . |
| 15 | In contrast to the boundless optimism of the 1960s the country was still recovering from the traumas of Vietnam and Watergate and undergo-ing a crisis of confidence in both political leaders and institutions . |
| 16 | She was still recovering from the shock of that earlier bout of jealousy . |
| 17 | He smiled , his eyes taking in her shiny hair , silky dress and everything else about her , and , while Leith was still recovering from the ‘ darling ’ , he placed a firm , possessive hand on her elbow and guided her into the room . |
| 18 | The second shot , fired while the gun was still bucking from the recoil of the first , went wild . |
| 19 | One flow contaminated with metals was still gushing from the disused Wheal Jane tin mine into the River Carnon , Cornwall . |
| 20 | The passageway outside was still reverberating from the crash when he started in on the door of the next apartment . |
| 21 | She was still rocking from the unexpected power his kisses had over her when , looking down at her from his lofty height , he mocked , ‘ Now try and tell me you are n't just anybody 's ! ’ |
| 22 | That was in January 1950 , when Europe was still reeling from the revelations of the Nazi death-camps , opened less than five years before , and the voluminous confirmations of the Nuremberg trials of what war-criminals had done there . |
| 23 | The US was still reeling from the embarrassment of the Cuban Missile Crisis and needed to boost morale . |
| 24 | Quigley was still reeling from the impact of his great gesture . |
| 25 | Her mother Mary Ann Elsworth , 77 , was still reeling from the shock . |
| 26 | An element was still missing from the equation of Tatyana 's suicide and Blanche was more convinced than ever that Taczek possessed it . |
| 27 | She was still grimacing from the shock of it as Guido swept from the room , announcing over his shoulder , ‘ So , you 'd better deliver the goods — or else I will ! ’ |
| 28 | As he took his handkerchief out and wiped away the water that was still dripping from the front of his hair , a voice said , ‘ I would n't drink that if I were you ; the cows wash in it just round the corner . ’ |
| 29 | My lad said he was still suffering from the shock of seeing Gould 's leg in the iron . ’ |
| 30 | Edgar 's male chauvinism ( though this was a phrase not yet current ) and his expectation that his work was always , would always be of greater importance , than her own — these were aspects of their mutual dissatisfaction , no doubt , although both were , decades later , to concede that Edgar at this time was paying a high psychological price for having renounced his theatrical ambitions ( old Cambridge friends of his already had their names in lights in the West End , while he was a mere house officer ) and that Liz was still suffering from the trauma of confronting her mother with her total , final defection . |