Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The keys crashed to the floor next to Gedanken ; the piece of paper followed , slowly fluttering from side to side like a snowflake . |
| 2 | Jack was very much in the groove , rarely deviating from the fairways and the centre of the green , but was a mere one shot under par , while Miguel was one shot better . |
| 3 | It looks as if Mr Honecker , 77 and only slowly recovering from a gall-bladder operation , is incapable of grasping the situation in his country . |
| 4 | That was where Luch silently led Marion Maclean , slowly recovering from her shock during the four-mile walk . |
| 5 | Redmond , now with Oldham , is slowly recovering from the misery of his final few months at the club he joined as a boy . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It took ten minutes of brisk walking to get my blood flowing again , my consciousness slowly returning from a journey beyond my body . |
| 8 | Andy ( Sharon 's twin brother ) and Keith ( who fancies Sandra ) jump on James ( who fancies himself ) to the accompaniment of loud cheering from everyone else . |
| 9 | In the indictment Bunyan was accused , among other things , of ‘ devilishly and perniciously abstaining from coming to Church to hear Divine Service ’ . |
| 10 | In 1754 Ramsay was again in Italy , where he remained for three years , developing the wonderfully delicate style of his maturity , and constantly drawing from life with all the avidity to learn of a student . |
| 11 | We 're grateful to those who provided them , not least the Cleveland chap who wrote on the back of a particularly unamused picture postcard of Queen Victoria , apparently eating from a box of Huntley and Palmer 's biscuits . |
| 12 | Gracie Fields had a tremendous faculty of projection , perhaps stemming from her old Music Hall days , and she never needed a microphone for her ringing voice ; either belting out ‘ Its the Biggest Aspidistra in the World ’ , or singing gently ‘ Sally ’ , each syllable was heard in every corner of the huge auditorium . |
| 13 | Monica asked , already sullen and hopeless , apparently seeing from Alice 's face that there was no news . |
| 14 | During employment the employee may damage his employer 's business in the following ways : ( a ) working for a competitor during his hours of employment ; ( b ) working for a competitor in his spare time ; ( c ) making preparations in order to compete with his employer after he has left ; ( d ) disclosing or using the employer 's business secrets ; or ( e ) failing to disclose information which may be of use to his employer and in some instances personally profiting from its use . |
| 15 | It is when we reach the realm of ‘ abnormal deviance ’ that the teacher 's problematic really emerges , for here pupils are not only deviating from the ‘ good pupil ’ role , but may be denying or over-exaggerating their gender image as well . |
| 16 | This effect can vitiate scientific observation , as when seventeenth century experimenters , familiar with the concepts of post-Galilean mechanics but not of electrostatic attraction and repulsion , regularly reported observing chaff falling as though by gravitation , or mechanically rebounding from the electrified bodies which attracted them . |
| 17 | They had heard loud banging from the boxcars , as if someone was trying to attract their attention . |
| 18 | But there is still enough talent available , including that of Menzel and Forman ( who is apparently returning from Hollywood to make another film at the Barrandov Studios ) to push the Czech cinema into the limelight again . |
| 19 | ‘ It is an achievement to play games at the moment , as we are literally living from hand to mouth . |
| 20 | The bowling alley , which is part of a Karachi fairground , is very old — perhaps dating from the 1950s — and seems to have been imported from the US , commented Faye Ashton who organised the event during HMS Chatham 's recent goodwill visit . |
| 21 | The price alterations are a study in themselves , an example being the First Return from Craven Arms to Eaton , the original fare perhaps dating from the last century , crossed out and altered by some unfortunate clerk , by gas light , with a fine nib pen and a bottle of railway ink. , round about 1915 . |
| 22 | On the former Johnson wished for accuracy of representation , by which means the portrait painter also creates a piece of history ; on the latter he applauded developments in which historians had begun to consult and interpret factual record instead of merely culling from other histories . |
| 23 | Furthermore , in the aggregate we stand to be robbed of far more by these fine gentlemen acting in the good name of their corporation than by the common rogues apparently acting from some morally worthless motive . |
| 24 | However , if we also add the timings of such movements from two more manuscripts of Lalande motets , F-Pn , H387 , a reduced score of the Miserere a grand choeur ( illus.4 ) , and F-Pn , Rés. 1363 , a reduced score of Dominus regnavit , both being copies apparently dating from the 1740s and probably prepared for the Concert Spirituel , we begin to notice the familiar syndrome of some slowing down in some tempos , compared with those of the earlier H400D . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He was constantly dashing from the shop floor to the offices , to his car , to his suppliers , to his customers and back again . |
| 27 | Because you just seem to have chosen the things by looking , not by actually randomly sampling from the tumours . |
| 28 | I am reduced to sitting staring out of the window with nothing much to look at but a young man , presumably a salesman or political canvasser , patiently going from door to door down the street . |
| 29 | Lancaster grunted , as if suddenly waking from a reverie . |
| 30 | They 're only paying from the top branch up to the last branch on the tree . |