Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a scaly hollow a crowd of naked Perks fled squealing from the echo of their bounding feet . |
| 2 | The old Chinese now came shambling from the kitchen , agog to hear everything . |
| 3 | The mechanisms currently proposed attribute O 3 losses to perturbations induced by large increases in the stratospheric sulphate aerosol loading : these include enhanced heterogeneous chemistry on aerosols , enhanced scattering from the aerosols and radiative heating by the aerosols causing enhanced upwelling . |
| 4 | I could not believe my eyes as every film , one after the other , that I lifted dripping from the hypo , was totally and absolutely blank . |
| 5 | The second man , who was tall and lean , came running from the glade in which the car was parked . |
| 6 | Sarah came running from the parlour , her face colourless . |
| 7 | But before she could open her mouth another familiar voice came floating from the house behind him . |
| 8 | Then Finn came falling from the flies , as the leaves had fallen ; only the leaves fell soft . |
| 9 | Yet more sweet scent came wafting from the generous drifts of white alyssum that softened the open areas of stone chippings in Cheshire Pink shade — a surface that makes a practical alternative to the conventional lawn and can be defined and contained by brick edging . |
| 10 | I 've imagined myself in situations like this , made up speeches in my head , speeches about truth and freedom and protection of sources , speeches I imagined delivering from the witness box just before the judge sentenced me to ninety days or six months or whatever for contempt of court , but I was kidding myself . |
| 11 | A big bimbo in cool pants and bra came swaying from the shadows of the rear corridor . |
| 12 | Heads came bursting from every doorway to see them pass , and the warm hum of excitement and eagerness span after them in a golden thread , the voice of the brightness that flashed like sparks from face to face . |
| 13 | Gwyn Parry of Greasby , however , observed such an excursion when the motive power throughout comprised of a Collett 0–6–0 and Dukedog No 9028 , which he photographed departing from the Down passenger loop platform on the return working . |
| 14 | However , a worthwhile innovation here was to begin with a conference conversation whereby small mixed national groups were asked to produce a list of the key questions that they saw action research as needing to answer , and a summary of how the group envisaged moving from the question to an appropriate answer . |
| 15 | She raced sobbing from the room . |
| 16 | Peninsulas , ripped screaming from the land , |
| 17 | ‘ There ! ’ he said abruptly and threw the plane straight again , but this time dropping the nose , and I saw a jeep churning dust from the dirt road which ran the length of the island 's long shank , between the golf course and the houses , and just as I saw the jeep so the red tracer bullets began climbing from a machine-gun mounted in the back of the vehicle . |
| 18 | My breath began wheezing from the exertion . |
| 19 | Elderly men clammed up when Barley asked questions in the presence of his assistant , who was felt to be too young ; men rushed howling from the room when he casually asked about circumcision in a sister 's presence . |
| 20 | At midday an unseasonal wind began gusting from the east , and our calm anchorage was transformed into a choppy lee shore . |
| 21 | After half an hour 's question-and-answer , Mr Yeltsin suddenly began reading from a prepared text : |
| 22 | For much of the broadcast he was answering questions put by two interviewers , but as it was drawing to a close he suddenly began reading from a prepared text , declaring : " I warned in 1987 that Gorbachev has in his character an aspiration for absolute personal power . |
| 23 | As we watched , a leathery doglike head began extending from the fissure on a seemingly interminable , peristaltically moving neck . |
| 24 | She began sliding from the chair towards the gaping hole in the floor . |
| 25 | Sunshine 855 began broadcasting from a farmer 's barn in the late seventies . |
| 26 | Some British armoured cars came and began shooting from a distance , and in the chaos I shouted out to four or five brother officers and we drove off in a truck . |
| 27 | Advice was hurled up at her , but smoke began seeping from the window behind the servant and she needed no urging . |
| 28 | The broken twigs flew crackling from the fall they took together . |
| 29 | The board was replaced by a Medical Office within the Privy Council — that refuge for unpopular branches of government which needed shielding from the glare of parliamentary scrutiny . |
| 30 | We suspect , Janet , that you started washing from the top and that as you worked down , any drips streaked the dry , dirty wall below , making it harder to clean . |