Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [v-ing] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certain stock was missing from the infirmary , including a number of mackintosh sheets . |
| 2 | My wig was swinging from the hooks on the charm bracelet , my orange hair tumbled over my face like a pound of grapes in an egg-cup and one shoe-less leg stuck out of a semi-detached dress . |
| 3 | The Anarkali was dark and quiet and a lot of the light was coming from the candle between us . |
| 4 | Blood was pouring from the side of the Doctor 's face . |
| 5 | Dark , sluggish blood was running from the wounds made by the Elms and there was the gleam of whitish bone and of raw muscle . |
| 6 | The daylight was fleeing from the wilderness that he could not see but whose emptiness beyond the shuttered windows he understood . |
| 7 | It was raining hard now , and the wind was screaming from the back of the ship . |
| 8 | The sounds were inexplicable since the wind was blowing from the Glastonbury direction and the high ground shielded the quarry from it , as shown by the fact that the stunted bushes on the lip of the quarry did not move . |
| 9 | The wind was blowing from the sea and he instinctively opened his wings , leaned round into it and circled up and back , quartering the cliffs around him with his eyes to see what or who was there . |
| 10 | On this cold January afternoon , it was already dark outside , and a bitter wind was blowing from the north . |
| 11 | And the fire actually started beyond the North Wall , just by the North Gate , but the wind was blowing from the North , and it blew it down , and although it did n't burn the rather better stone houses , facing onto St Aldate 's , erm behind I think a lot of the poorer houses did suffer , and St Ebbe 's parish , next door , suffered a great deal , and because it was war , I think they just , the city council , city records lament that there how hard it is for people , and there 's no money to help them . |
| 12 | A wind was gusting from the sea , it clasped small stones and dust , and threw fistfuls at my head . |
| 13 | You knew the great winter was coming from the north . |
| 14 | The sun was falling from the sky , exhausted after its day 's work , and the approaching twilight made the school seem even larger . |
| 15 | The sun was sliding from the sky , streaking the clouds with vermilion as it went . |
| 16 | These revisions do not ask us to view the prewar Japanese peasant as a prosperous and independent cultivator , but they suggest that at least part of the rural sector was benefiting from the course of development . |
| 17 | Music and laughter was spilling from the grand chamber . |
| 18 | A dark stain was spreading from the crotch of his Levis . |
| 19 | By the time she reached the hall , it was clear the sound was coming from the study . |
| 20 | A slight breeze was blowing from the left , bringing with it the stench of a dead bloated cow that was lying against the five-bar gate leading to a field . |
| 21 | The perfume that had breathed sweetness over the cool stream was coming from the delicious brown girl . |
| 22 | Teacher was watching from the doorway when Frankie , the last child in his line , turned in time to see his mam move away from the school gate . |
| 23 | Manescu had the impression the apparition behind the opaque glass wall was drinking from an absurdly shaped vessel . |
| 24 | Outside the french windows , the last redness of the day was draining from the sky . |
| 25 | Already the warmth was draining from the air and he knew that it was time they were moving . |
| 26 | Everything was in perfect order , and although there was no coal in the house , the water was running from the taps , and there was a small electric cooker that proved most efficient . |
| 27 | A red glow was rising from the marsh . |
| 28 | The Titfords were more than lucky , in a sense , to have picked up their legacies from Benjamin 's will in that year , since the nation as a whole was suffering from a period of deep depression following a boom which had peaked six or seven years before . |
| 29 | However , evidence was accumulating from the study of microorganisms that DNA might have some genetic effects , and this forced a reconsideration of its chemical structure . |
| 30 | Early in the New Year the organisation was moving from the Dickensian building in the city centre which it had inhabited for over fifty years to a new purpose-built high-rise office block south of the river , an area not long cleared of old slum dwellings and deratinised . |