Example sentences of "from [Wh adv] i be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From where I am sitting on the Rhine embankment I can see the Siebengebirge and the Drachenfels , named for the dragon which guarded the treasure-hoard of the Nibelungs . |
| 2 | The express leaves in five minutes — I can see it from where I 'm speaking . |
| 3 | well I 'm sorry but from where I 'm looking at it sixty two but not that I 've thought about it in any depth but |
| 4 | ‘ From where I 'm lying that sounds like another woman saying , it 's me or her or else . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Not from where I 'm lying , you 're not . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Mister , if you return from where I 'm sendin' you , ’ he said grimly , ‘ they wo n't call you a Prophet . |
| 7 | It 's up the side of the platform — I can just see the light over the door from where I 'm standing . |
| 8 | ‘ But from where I 'm standing I fear you 're right . |
| 9 | Perhaps you do n't want to know the truth — that 's how it looks from where I 'm standing . |
| 10 | ‘ But it 's no joke from where I 'm standing . |
| 11 | Even from where I 'm standing , you 're a different kettle of fish from Caroline . ’ |
| 12 | It does n't feel any damn different from where I 'm standing ! ’ |
| 13 | I thought have n't noticed from where I 'm standing ! |
| 14 | I can smell them from where I 'm sitting . |
| 15 | From where I 'm sitting ( in a Paris café as it happens , pal , limbering up for the days 500cl — I mean 500 word slog ) , a rest in that sense would take the form of a couple of shifts in a Bolivian tin mine — and Club Med do n't fly there . |
| 16 | The work looks like hell to me , it looks like loin-death from where I 'm sitting , but hospitals are erotic-that 's what they all say . |
| 17 | ‘ Even from where I 'm sitting . ’ |
| 18 | And so the issue the discussion has focused on , from where I 'm sitting , seems to have focused on is , you know can one afford to let loose a strategic policy and could such a policy be written in a way that it would work for inward investment attraction without being a a Trojan horse as you know letting in a lot of other nasty things . |
| 19 | Starting exactly two blocks down from where I was living , there is a Hispanic neighbourhood , run down and emptying out . |
| 20 | Perhaps I should have gone to London Irish , but they were a bit far away from where I was living ’ . |
| 21 | Hankin , who denied rumours that keeper Mark Prudhoe is about to leave the club , said : ‘ It certainly looked like a penalty from where I was watching , but typical of our luck we did n't get it . |
| 22 | From where I was standing I could see all the British athletes and supporters , cheering and celebrating . |
| 23 | I could view the progress of the race from where I was standing , just before the home straight , and I could see that Elliott and Daley had kept us in the hunt . |
| 24 | ‘ It was then that they released the Wheel and it came bowling down the hill not more than ten yards from where I was standing . |
| 25 | From where I was standing , far below me I could see a separate miniature fort linked to the mother fortress by an umbilical causeway . |
| 26 | We were in the sports hall and she flew right up on to the top of the climbing frame at the far end from where I was giving my little lecture . |
| 27 | I could see a bin from where I was sitting : it was made of wooden slats with a red-painted metal bin inside . |
| 28 | From where I was sitting , it all looked fine . |
| 29 | Loyal Norling praised the refereeing of the games ; but from where I was sitting in most of the games an unfit Norling with his flair and two good touch judges would have been preferable to most of the referees I saw . |
| 30 | From where I was sitting I could see one end of a cretonne-covered sofa , a table with a bowl of milky flowers on it . |