Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [v-ing] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The night had strewn a carpet of dew-beaded cobwebs across the lawn and mist was rising from the river . |
| 32 | The mist was rising from the trees and the sun was gleaming through . |
| 33 | The mist was shearing from the hillsides like a fleece , the air lightening and warming . |
| 34 | The foam lining was hanging from a split seam |
| 35 | I became aware that feet were scuttling down the stairs , and my father was bellowing from the regions below , ‘ For God 's sake , come down ! ’ |
| 36 | Smoke was rising from the top of the tower when we fell into the round kitchen exhausted . |
| 37 | A wisp of smoke was rising from the other side of a clump of bushes on the edge of one hayfield where the hay had been stacked . |
| 38 | There was a standing arrangement : if no smoke was rising from the chimney of Low Birk Hatt by eleven o'clock in the morning the Fawcetts should come to investigate . |
| 39 | Station Officer Ron Carr , of Middlesbrough Fire Station , said : ‘ Smoke was bellowing from the roof of number 14 the end terrace house when we arrived . |
| 40 | By the time she overlooked the quayside , the decks were vibrating and black diesel smoke was pouring from the funnel . |
| 41 | The carpet was threadbare and innocent of pattern , paper was peeling from the walls but there were pictures in gilded frames . |
| 42 | Paint was peeling from the shop fronts , some premises were derelict . |
| 43 | After a few days had passed , an old woman was walking from the Doon bridge into Alloway village and passing the partially ruined Kirk Alloway , when she heard a loud bellowing sound coming from the church . |
| 44 | The creature was hanging from a branch of a large dead oak tree , several hundred feet away . |
| 45 | Once , when stationed at Pulham in Norfolk , his commanding officer told him that a naval airship was drifting from the North Sea entirely out of control , as both its engines had broken down . |
| 46 | The riskier loan was disappearing from the market . |
| 47 | Alexei thought , but did not voice the opinion , that possibly the man was suffering from the effects of too much wine . |
| 48 | Morthen was running from the enclosure , slapping the taut hides on their frames as she passed them , her clay-streaked hair flying free . |
| 49 | Plaster was falling from a small hole in the ceiling ; there was smoke in the air . |
| 50 | Firstly the United States competition was changing from the old Bunch to a new collection of competitors targeted more at specific markets . |
| 51 | A cold draught of air was coming from the kitchen and I found the back door to be wide open — and then my horrified glance fell upon Aunt Louise . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | The music was coming from the closed door . |
| 54 | The remaining Panguna employees were later evacuated by road , and it was reported that the PNG Army was retreating from the countryside in order to concentrate upon defending the island 's towns . |
| 55 | By now the Emperor 's army was approaching from the south , led by one of his most able generals , Marshal Otto Blucher . |
| 56 | Indeed , only one voice was missing from the chorus . |
| 57 | And it was done like this , this was done at a period when this church was changing from a Roman Catholic church The the window the original glass in this was a massive stained glass window of the crucifixion , and that had been put there in the fifteenth century by a Lord Mayor of York who was very wealthy and very religious and he wanted to show how wealthy and religious he was by pu er donating this window to the church . |
| 58 | A different ship was departing from a different world . |
| 59 | Nutritionists believed ( mistakenly , they now admit ) that human health was suffering from a lack of animal protein . |
| 60 | When they reached the house a letter was waiting from the asylum . |