Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [adv prt] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we 'd squared it up once before because there was wires hanging all over from the sp not from the radio , from the speakers . |
| 2 | Tabitha hung her bag on her shoulder and came walking nonchalantly down from the cockpit , not even glancing up to see the great cables gliding rapidly down towards her head . |
| 3 | Ryker guided the Orion into traffic , keeping well back from the Fiesta . |
| 4 | Slopes which are visible from a thousand feet looking straight down from above are far too steep for an easy or safe landing . |
| 5 | Rooks protested the disturbance by flapping angrily up from the roadside . |
| 6 | Below us sparkled the Garbh Uisge , bouncing noisily down from the melting snows over jumbled slabs . |
| 7 | The cloudburst switched itself off as abruptly as it had started , and the moon , peering momentarily out from an ink-black cloudscape , showed a coastal desert of pure white sand backed by low hills of chemical-green and violent reds , cactus everywhere and trucks parked on the dirt verge , most of them painted in livid crimson on white — Optimista , Primero de Mayo , La Virgen . |
| 8 | Her mother was already clambering laboriously down from the seat beside the driver , displaying a lumpy mass of grey woollen stocking and woollen knickers in the process . |
| 9 | No but I mean I I I was planning on having a break in the middle but y most of you voted and you wanted a break at the start but perhaps it would 've , but then you you 'd have been going straight on from s w phonetics |
| 10 | It was right at the very beginning when you had to ask him about the introduction , I thought you were going straight off from the business card and all the rest of it and what you actually had was your C C Q in front of you because it took you all that time to get round to it . |
| 11 | The candelabra were brought out and , with her tongue jutting anxiously out from between her teeth , Annie carried the good plate into the dining room . |
| 12 | Ellwood walked down the row of trees , then circled the house , staying well back from the lighted windows . |
| 13 | But surely their successor will hear faint strains of a Chopin ‘ Nocturne ’ drifting softly out from Number Eight across the canals of Little Venice . |
| 14 | You see , coming right up from coal boy and lamp-man you know , porter , signalman and parcel porter , leaving parcel porter , yard foreman and then shunter , guard foreman . |
| 15 | He dreamed of a multitude of chandeliers , all lit up with candles , coming slowly down from the ceiling , while he and his sister Mary watched . |
| 16 | It is an easy walk down from the church of Sauveterre to the riverside , where the stump of the old fortified bridge still stands , starting hopefully out from one bank but no longer reaching to the other — a disappointed bridge , to borrow James Joyce 's perfect description of a seaside pier . |
| 17 | Erm if you look at a river that 's working run running quickly down from the mountains |
| 18 | Coming on duty , on what must have been the third morning for our ‘ C ’ cases I met Sister Hancock coming unsteadily down from the theatre . |
| 19 | This is nowhere more apparent than in the leafy avenues of middle-class suburbia , among the 2CV owners and Guardian readers , the teachers and social workers , where family life is pictured tumbling happily among Early Learning Centre climbing frames , glowing cosily out from safely bohemian pine-scrubbed kitchens . |
| 20 | You could you could n't feel it if you 're standing on the middle of the floor but when you went up to the grating with your chest on the grating you could feel the tower swinging away back from you I do n't know what er distance probably maybe twelve inches maybe more I do n't know . |
| 21 | The Butter Tubs Pass links Swaledale and Wensleydale , snaking airily up from Hardraw , crossing the saddle between Lovely Seat and Shunner Fell at 1100 feet before dropping down to Thwaite . |
| 22 | There are a surprising number of villages between Arreau and Saint-Lary , but curiously , only the first of them , Cadéac , is on the river , all the others , on either side , standing somewhat back from it , towards the high ground , on terraces deposited there by the glacier . |
| 23 | And it must have stirred memories for his father , Colin , sitting just along from Venables in the Maine Road . |
| 24 | Also standing well back from the grave , Mike Treloar , the printing works foreman , supported himself on a stick . |
| 25 | Hope gazed intently on its red wings , black spots , a large butterfly , he thought , and a very easy life too , bumping gently along from one of those mauve flowers to another . |
| 26 | Steering fishily up from an unknown floor . |
| 27 | Then , sliding carefully out from under his outstretched arm , she slipped out of bed . |