Example sentences of "was [v-ing] from a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corporal Alan Furniss , commander of the Warrior , said they were driving through an area nicknamed Sniper 's Alley when he received a message there was firing from a cinema ahead . |
| 2 | He was tugging at a length of chain that was hanging from a hook in the wall . |
| 3 | His small son , age five , was hanging from a steel bar eight or ten feet above the ground while William 's , a year older , taunted him from a greater height and threatened to tread on his fingers to make him drop . |
| 4 | The foam lining was hanging from a split seam |
| 5 | The creature was hanging from a branch of a large dead oak tree , several hundred feet away . |
| 6 | The goat was hanging from a hook outside the restaurant door , under the awning . |
| 7 | Newman gave Tweed the name of the hotel he 'd stayed at during his earlier visit , said yes , he was phoning from a call box when Tweed posed the question . |
| 8 | Just as Marjorie stayed up all night while Lizzie was recovering from a womb infection , so Lizzie stayed by Marjorie 's bedside while she recuperated after a gallstone operation . |
| 9 | Farnham were without several of their leading players , including their captain G. Gooding , who was recovering from a broken leg . |
| 10 | At first , especially when she divulged that she was recovering from a nervous breakdown , I assumed that she merely desired a consoling chat with her sister 's old tutor . ’ |
| 11 | Tension heightened after family members claimed that Khoei , who was recovering from a heart operation in July , had died in " suspicious " circumstances . |
| 12 | Bill Warmington was recovering from a stroke . |
| 13 | I was returning from a hospital where I had been visiting someone , and I was last in a bus queue . |
| 14 | Early in January Caro and Bryony drove to Heathrow to meet Clare , who was returning from a year in the States . |
| 15 | He was returning from a night out celebrating his first wage packet after nine months on the dole when he was set upon at Didcot Parkway Railway Station . |
| 16 | Alison was returning from a night out with boyfriend Paul Reany , from Hemlington , Middlesbrough , and another friend , near the university when she was apparently shot from a passing car . |
| 17 | Bott was given huge amounts of space on the inside pages of Ink in December 1971 and January 1972 to set out the scrambled views on life which he was culling from a variety of standard left-wing and anarchist gurus . |
| 18 | A huge snake was unravelling from a tree , sliding along the forest floor . |
| 19 | The vapour was escaping from a valve which had been dismantled . |
| 20 | But he was writing from a world in which Riva only meant coastline and Best was something worn on Sundays . |
| 21 | Dust was pluming from a road in the centre of that landscape , but , even with the help of the battered old telescope , Sharpe could not tell what traffic made the dust rise , or in what direction it travelled . |
| 22 | She bustled out , and five minutes later Auguste was sipping from a willow-pattern cup with Edith 's and Egbert 's eyes on him . |
| 23 | In Francis [ 1982 ] Crim LR 363 , the accused had a stick with him when he demanded entry into a house , but not when he was stealing from a room . |
| 24 | Bukharin , in formulating his equations for extended reproduction , assumed that the ‘ economy ’ under consideration was moving from a state of simple reproduction to one of extended reproduction . |
| 25 | He was speaking from a mind full of ideas and images , which all offered insight in varying ways , which he sought to reflect on over several years . |
| 26 | She was speaking from a phone-box near the sea wall . |
| 27 | She was speaking from a call-box , he could hear the noises of the road , traffic , an aeroplane passing overhead . |
| 28 | As they got closer , they saw it was rising from a burning truck . |
| 29 | He was calling from a pay-phone in a pub at Burnham-on-Crouch in Essex . |
| 30 | A man could say he was telephoning from a clinic in Geneva and actually be in a hotel on Rhodes . |