Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there was widespread despoliation of the woods by local landowners and by the charcoal-burners who produced the fuel necessary for the manufacture of iron — this despite Acts of 1559 and 1570 prohibiting them from using timber-trees needed to build ships . |
| 2 | An injunction was granted against USI prohibiting them from publishing the phone numbers of British abortion clinics in student union handbooks . |
| 3 | However , in December 1989 , the Irish Supreme Court , following an appeal from SPUC , granted an injunction against USI , prohibiting them from distributing information until the European Court makes its decision , which could take several years . |
| 4 | The first , and most obvious , is the desire to prevent the unjust enrichment of criminals by prohibiting them from exploiting their crimes . |
| 5 | Twelve interactive computer terminals allow visitors to take an ‘ electronic walk ’ through Pompeii 's forum , theatres , amphitheatre , villas and baths , seeing them from various perspectives . |
| 6 | She felt as though she was seeing them from under a great weight . |
| 7 | This simply means that instead of bending and scuffling around for saucepans stacked up in a dark base unit , try hanging them from hooks near the sink ( where you are going to fill them with water ) or near the stove . |
| 8 | Mr Mayhew 's costs , well into seven figures , were funded by Cazenove , which now stands a good chance of recouping them from tax-payers . |
| 9 | The older tendency to classify muscles according to their probable functions is giving way to a system of naming them from their positions , origins and insertions . |
| 10 | The Sutherland and Ross-shire county boundary runs down the middle of the loch , touching the coast at the outlet of Kirkaig River , and Fionn collects in waters from hundreds of square miles , gathering them from as far away as Loch Borralan , at Atnacealgach , Urigill , Cama , the ‘ crooked loch ’ , and long , windswept Veyatie , below Cul Mor . |
| 11 | As such , it is vital for getting the community involved , getting people on the side of wild-life conservation , and dissuading them from poaching . |
| 12 | ‘ Probates , ’ she said , producing them from her bag . |
| 13 | The lesson of that election was that only an alliance of all those who stood to the right of the Socialists could succeed in easing them from power . |
| 14 | Within months , some clients had in excess of 25 dealers contacting them from the same firm ; many were also being contacted from other licensed dealers . |
| 15 | The advantage of this is that the secretaries can be laid off during the summer recess , and MPs can avoid the cost of employing them from the ‘ expenses ’ allowance . |
| 16 | Ten minutes , fifteen at the most , and the wind would be on them , tearing them from the saddle . |
| 17 | How could the best interests of the children be served by tearing them from their beds and flying them away from their island home to be completely separated from everything dear and familiar . |
| 18 | Of course , such a device is doing more than protecting them from an over-exciting adventure ; it is also in a calmer way building up their anticipation of a real mystery . |
| 19 | Her young are born in the nest and she leaves them there , protecting them from predators by blocking the hole with soil , which she packs down quite tightly . |
| 20 | Operators who have their tachograph charts analysed by an outside agency need to be careful about exactly what it is they are buying and whether it meets their requirements in protecting them from breaches of the law by their employees and agents . |
| 21 | They lay comparatively few eggs but look after them carefully , protecting them from predators . |
| 22 | Now Koquillion claims he is protecting them from the wrath of his people . |
| 23 | In particular , one may need help to see that caretaking for other people , protecting them from damaging consequences and also doing everything one can to " help " , may be having the exact opposite of the desired effect . |
| 24 | He was dressed in close-fitting grey trousers that emphasised the length of his legs and a short-sleeved cotton-knit shirt , also in grey , a striped butcher 's apron protecting them from fat splashes . |
| 25 | As they returned to Swinbrook on Grye , the gipsy horse , the trees of Wychwood closed in about them and Carrie imagined the sadly diminished yet still proud forest was protecting them from the rest of the world . |
| 26 | In fact in its original Hebrew setting the shepherd referred to a totally different picture — one who actually cared for and was perhaps even prepared to give his life for the sheep , protecting them from very real danger from which they could not be expected to protect themselves . |
| 27 | They are responsible for the complete replication of the extreme ends of chromosomal molecules and contribute to chromosome stability in protecting them from exonucleolytic degradation and end to end fusion events ( 2 ) . |
| 28 | Nurturing confidence is one thing , but cosseting them from the harsh realities of top provincial competition could prove totally counter-productive come the two games the count against the New Zealand XV , who themselves will not include any of the All Black tourists in Australia for the Bledisloe Cup series . |
| 29 | He figured all the time he was talking he 'd be keeping me from smashing up his hand with the gun-butt . |
| 30 | I realize that he encourages it , it 's a means of keeping me from being as discontented as I should be . |