Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [noun] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The willingness of the Western democracies , led by the USA , to endorse Ceauşescu 's rule was based upon the view that his regime was pursuing independence from Moscow and that such a ‘ nationalist ’ line must involve domestic reform and liberalization . |
| 2 | Herr Kohl acknowledged that the far Right was gaining support from people opposed to the EC 's Maastricht agreement , which they saw as an anti-nationalist pact to give up the Deutschemark . |
| 3 | I was walking north from Golden Square |
| 4 | As she did so , she felt him greedily lapping her love juice as if she was oozing nectar from heaven . |
| 5 | Darren started going to a special school , but in ‘ 84 my drinking did start getting out of hand and I was pushing Darren from pillar to post . |
| 6 | Ten minutes after we put the ‘ phone down , I was getting calls from carrier company executives from their car ‘ phones . |
| 7 | Milkman Phil Bridges could not understand why he was getting complaints from customers on his round in Ackworth , West Yorkshire , saying that their milk had been stolen . |
| 8 | In August , 1944 I was flying Mustangs from Grimbergen , through to the Arnhem campaign , and my memories are that we were the first RAF Squadron to be based near Brussels , and only a matter of a few days after our armies had liberated that City . |
| 9 | He started to realize that he was experiencing sensations from parts of his body which he had thought had ceased to function . |
| 10 | The Interior Minister , Wu Po-hsiung , said that the government was considering demands from victims ' families and the opposition Democratic Progressive Party for an official apology and compensation . |
| 11 | From Alan , Steward of the King of Scots , who was holding Bute from King William I the Lion around 1200 , is descended by one line Charles , Prince of Wales , the present Duke of Rothesay , and by another John Crighton Stuart , Sixth Marquess of Bute and the present Captain and Keeper of Rothesay Castle . |
| 12 | HISTORIAN David Irving , who claims the Nazi holocaust was exaggerated , was facing deportation from Canada last night . |
| 13 | A meeting between him and Louis XIV was not a great success , but the young man made a generally good impression and though they had missed the ideal moment , when Prince Charles was threatening London from Derby , the French do seem to have been in earnest , as a letter to Prince Charles from the French Minister of Marine , the Comte de Maurepas , dated December 1745 , confirms : |
| 14 | I was coming south from England ; they were returning home from a factory in Germany . |
| 15 | It appears , from later information , that she was travelling light from London to Blackburn . |
| 16 | In the year 1669 , a peasant was taking grain from Reblingen to Nordhausen . |
| 17 | I suspected she was taking lessons from Springsteen . |
| 18 | They said she was fond of visiting the countryside and coast and appealed for property owners to check outbuildings in case she was taking refuge from January 's cold weather . |
| 19 | Sir Stephen Brown , President of the Family Division , was hearing arguments from lawyers representing the 14-year-old girl , who can not be named , her parents and the mother of the 18-year-old boyfriend who she has been living with . |
| 20 | Actually I was flitting people from Gedling to Blidworth with this horse and dray . |
| 21 | Later on during the Civil War the Major was carrying dispatches from Bridgnorth to Shrewsbury when he was captured by Cromwell 's troops . |
| 22 | This was fighting pride from Nigel Benn of Britain , who produces the sort of middleweight action the punters want to see : knockout punching . |
| 23 | Here we berthed ahead of a small German coaster which was discharging timber from Finland on a regular run . |
| 24 | At the time of going to press , the ITF confirmed that it was awaiting papers from Slovenia so that it could process its application to become an associate member . |
| 25 | In August 1989 it was assessing results from tests at sites in the Galtee and Comeragh mountains in Munster . |
| 26 | The Israeli press had reported on March 23 that several hundred Israeli military advisers were now in Ethiopia ; this involvement also prompted radical Arab regimes to support the EPLF , which was receiving artillery from Syria and Iraq , and weapons including SAM-7s from Libya . |
| 27 | On the one hand he was receiving advice from Cardinal Barberini ( later Pope Urban VIII ) that he should steer clear of theological issues ; on the other he was advised that Cardinal Bellarmine would welcome his comments on a passage in Psalm 18 that appeared inconsistent with Copernican doctrine . |
| 28 | Professor Slavin estimates that Sir Ralph Sadler was receiving £600 from fees and gratuities in connection with his work in Chancery , £900–£1,000 from the Secretaryship and the Signet . |
| 29 | Opponents claimed that HDZ policies were reminiscent of the fascist ustasha government which had ruled Croatia during the Second World War , and that it was receiving funds from ustasha emigré organizations . |
| 30 | But although the name Roath is an ancient one — it means , in Irish , the forest and therefore dates back to a time when Welsh was borrowing words from Irish , around the 5th century — there was little that surrounded the young Cottle which was in fact medieval . |