Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Australians were recovering again from the brink of disaster , although a ruthless reprisal raid by Portuguese against the natives who had helped the Japanese was storing up trouble for the future . |
| 2 | I was coming south from England ; they were returning home from a factory in Germany . |
| 3 | The redundant steelworker and a friend were returning home from a social club when they tried to stop a group of youngsters allegedly attacking traffic bollards . |
| 4 | From the stack of suitcases strapped on the overhead rack and the fact that they were driving away from the coast I guessed they were returning from a holiday . |
| 5 | When we were driving down from the border towards Beni Abbes , we quaked every time we saw police or soldiers . |
| 6 | She was only dimly aware of the approach of the two boys who were walking swiftly from the street corner . |
| 7 | While they were walking back from the Huddersfield discotheque , it suddenly dawned on Fred and Arthur that they had eaten three main meals that day instead of two . |
| 8 | They were shrinking back from the basement door . |
| 9 | A report in the International Herald Tribune at the end of August suggested that the Khmers Rouges were keeping away from the UN disarmament process because their forces had grown so small that they would lose influence if the numbers were made public . |
| 10 | Tribe caught them up as they were attacking a pair of two-seaters which were climbing away from the British Line , if there still was one , having just bombed an artillery position . |
| 11 | People were climbing down from the truck and seemed to be forming another queue . |
| 12 | This worked very well , but in 1988 people were pushing in from the sides instead of joining the queues , and tempers were becoming frayed and the situation somewhat dangerous as people trampled over the numerous electricity cables and water pipes . |
| 13 | She stopped and put her case down for a moment to try and collect herself ; her hands were trembling uncontrollably from the weight . |
| 14 | His head had an odd tilt or cock to it , set on the shoulders as if he were looking up from the bars of a drop-handled bike . |
| 15 | But now the men were sprinting back from the ramparts . |
| 16 | People were turning away from the dance spectacle to watch , with varying degrees of amusement , the small drama being enacted in their midst . |
| 17 | We were heading away from the Fraxilly sector , so Famlio could search in that area all they wanted . |
| 18 | Greeting us sleepily , they began immediately to cast off The engine started and a moment later we were pulling away from the other barges in a wash of white water . |
| 19 | The fire tenders were pulling away from the doomed building as the two men pounded towards them , waving them down . |
| 20 | At least if they kept going towards the sunset they were going away from the Ridgery and would arrive somewhere . |
| 21 | They were going away from the house towards the sea . |
| 22 | At a time when many socialists were moving away from a naive faith in the prospects for revolutionary change and towards uneasy respect for democracy , Labour in office was doing little to justify belief in the viability of their vision of the road to socialism . |
| 23 | They were moving away from the fire door when there was a loud report , like a large cannon going off . |
| 24 | They were getting away from the busyness and bright lights . |
| 25 | Other main activities related to accidents were getting up from a chair , walking unaided and getting into bed . |
| 26 | People were drifting away from the house , moving into the garden . |
| 27 | Alexei glanced idly down , and he saw that a company of troopers of the guard — C'zaki by their dress , under the command of a Yek officer — were marching up from the direction of the gate , picking up the sentries who had completed their tour of duty , dropping off the night watch . |
| 28 | Three rugby fans who were flying back from a match in Dublin were killed in the accident . |
| 29 | Three rugby fans who were flying back from a match in Dublin were killed in the accident . |
| 30 | Black rain clouds were riding up from the south , killing the light and making the day seem almost over . |