Example sentences of "was [adv] [v-ing] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the most inspiring experience of my life and the visit provided food for my hungry spirit which by then was slowly dying from malnutrition . |
| 2 | He was basically gloating from what I could gather . |
| 3 | Jeff was obviously calling from a public place . |
| 4 | He got round in par figures , but was obviously playing from memory . |
| 5 | He was constantly dashing from the shop floor to the offices , to his car , to his suppliers , to his customers and back again . |
| 6 | He was only missing from Palace line-ups from that time as a result of injury or illness , though his playing record demonstrates that he was prone to neither , and it was while we had Billy Callender in goal that Palace came closest to returning to Division 2 in 1928–29 , when we finished as runners-up to Charlton on goal average . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Grandfather was only suffering from a nagging cough and mild flu but he was , after all , somewhat of a grandee in the town because of his wealth . |
| 9 | ‘ After saluting him while he was eagerly drinking from the cup which had been presented , the dagger of an attendant pierced him through . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Uncle Hamish was already rising from his seat , looking positively twinkly with health and good cheer . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She had hoped for Pascoe 's sake that the MacQuillan affair would fade from his mind , but perhaps his memory was already concealing from him the truth about the killing . |
| 15 | The Prime Minister was already reeling from a savaging inflicted in the Commons by Labour leader John Smith . |
| 16 | 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 " . |
| 17 | Alina looked out to where the wagon was already disappearing from sight ; and she nodded , barely perceptibly . |
| 18 | They had a point , I was forced to admit , since I was already suffering from frostbite in the toes . |
| 19 | Cracks in the temple of Hibis in the el-Kharga oasis in the Libyan desert have widened , giving urgency to the plan to move the temple which was already suffering from underground water seepage . |
| 20 | In Phillips v Grampian Health Board ( 1989 ) The Times , 9 March a widow was held entitled to recover damages even though she married the deceased when he was already suffering from a fatal disease and she knew that his death was inevitable within a few years . |
| 21 | A mercer in a fur-trimmed coat was already emerging from a small crowd of bystanders . |
| 22 | And we just lay on the floor laughing because it was just getting from bad to worse . |
| 23 | The tip of the envelope was just protruding from her bag . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Theresa had a transplant in 1989 and was just recovering from that ordeal when she had a brain haemorrhage and went into a coma for three months . |
| 26 | The city was just recovering from one of the usual bouts of plague which come in late winter ; its citizens , however , sensed the worst was over and the streets buzzed like an overturned hive . |
| 27 | It was just going from one to the others , if you got fed up you just , when you left the school you put your name in them all and |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | When he joined Littlewoods in 1983 the company was just emerging from a disastrous turn in fortunes that had seen profits plummet from £49 million in 1978 to £11.5 million two years later . |
| 30 | 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 . |