Example sentences of "and [v-ing] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the houses stood out by dint of their brightly painted front doors but mostly the only sign of decoration was the washing on the lines and hanging from windows . |
| 2 | In the same way , it is possible to move forward in a free-wheeling way , making adjustments as required and recovering from mistakes . |
| 3 | I could n't look as I stood helplessly at the top of stairs listening to him bumping and thudding from step to step until he reached the bottom . |
| 4 | Tried soaking the matches in paint , he wrote , and firing from toy cannon . |
| 5 | This fragmentary evidence could not , strictly speaking , be regarded as cumulative , being based on a variety of different criteria and deriving from children with varying degrees of residence in Britain , to mention just two complicating factors . |
| 6 | There was a clear feeling on the part of some Councillors that , since the School was no longer under their sole control and since they now had their own Technical School to worry about ( they had been responsible for its organization and financing from March 1892 ) , they need no longer be too concerned about the Grammar School . |
| 7 | Harry demonstrated their strength by whipping off his shoes and walking from root to tip with neither give or wrinkling . |
| 8 | Arguably the most turbulent priest in the Anglo-Saxon experience , Wilfrid spent a great deal of his mature life entering into and returning from exiles imposed by English kings with whom he had quarrelled . |
| 9 | A special coach will run between Edinburgh Waverley to Hopetoun ( return fare , £1 ) , leaving Waverley Bridge at 8.45am and returning from Hopetoun at 5pm . |
| 10 | They decided to use the skills of their workers in making cloth and sacking from jute , which they imported from East Bengal , now Bangladesh . |
| 11 | But to her heart , already sore and aching from Alexander , this new blow , by comparison , seemed a mere trifle . |
| 12 | Regional Airlines : Established only this year , and operating from Jan Smuts with a former SAAF ‘ founding father ’ Dakota III 6871 ( on charge January 1944 , on to SAA in November 1953 and Namibair in 1978 ) ZS-DIW . |
| 13 | Yusuf ( Hocazade ) and dating from mid-Shawwal 877/mid-March 1473 to early Rabi " 1881/late June 1476 indicates that Hocazade may indeed have succeeded Molla Husrev , as the marginal note in Mecdi states ( while apparently giving an incorrect date , namely 872/1467–8 ) : only the signature of Molla Hamid b . |
| 14 | In Lewis Carroll 's Alice in Wonderland we encounter a large cat , lying on the hearth and grinning from ear to ear . |
| 15 | There was also a large cat , which was sitting on a chair and grinning from ear to ear . |
| 16 | Benjamin 's shoulders shook as he controlled the bubble of laughter , but Henry sat back , clapping his hands and grinning from ear to ear like some bloody cat . |
| 17 | They started ringing and writing from March offering titbits such as : ‘ Would you do a U-turn in a rally car dressed as Margaret T ? ’ |
| 18 | Prior to the Djibouti Agreement , on 12 May 1991 Mr. Qalib , describing himself as the ‘ Prime Minister of the Somali Republic ’ and writing from Riyadh , instructed Crossman Block to act on behalf of ‘ the Interim Government of the Somali Republic . ’ |
| 19 | The questions of theory and of hypothesis seemed wrong now , and looking from face to face , he wondered how much good the answers would do him . |
| 20 | She wanted to be noticed in all her finery and as she walked up the aisle she kept stopping to give a little cough on the back of her hand and looking from side to side . |
| 21 | A few years ago Glen Robins was unemployed and living from hand to mouth . |
| 22 | Once Tam darted a terrified glance over his shoulder and saw Kim sprawled across the writing-table ; white faced and trembling from head to toe , he had his eyes closed and his fists were clenched tight as he summoned up every last ounce of courage in his eleven-year-old body to endure his father 's beating without weeping or crying out . |
| 23 | It did not take them very long to get the hang of it , scraping carefully with the blade at an angle of forty-five degrees and pausing from time to time in order to wipe it clean . |
| 24 | We were entering woodland and , by the twittering and warbling from oak , ash and pine , were going to see more birds . |
| 25 | Prior to the mid-nineteenth century , magazines such as Youth 's Monthly Visitor aimed their moral homilies at an undefined audience covering both sexes and ranging from children to young adults . |
| 26 | Finally come three new systems — amplifier , tuner ( or receiver ) , cassette deck , CD player and loudspeakers — called System 1 , 2 and 3 and ranging from £699.95 to £849.95 . |
| 27 | These stylish reproductions are working pedal cars , complete with a personalised number plate , and costing from £595 . |
| 28 | In The Outsiders , the gang , their friends and rivals spend their time mugging and jumping people , stealing and robbing from shops . |
| 29 | All patient areas require alteration , decoration and cleaning from time to time . |
| 30 | He says getting into shops and going from floor to floor is often impossible . |