Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [pron] [noun] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They die out , you know , ’ she said without raising her voice or removing her attention from the crowding clouds . |
| 2 | Sir David , 53 , said that receiving his knighthood from the Queen was an ‘ awe-inspiring and thrilling experience ’ . |
| 3 | recognising reimbursable expenses attributable to jobs , categorising them correctly and maintaining their separation from the operating costs of the business ; |
| 4 | This pins the souls of the dead to these places , letting the ghosts guard the lands they love and saving their spirits from the terrible prospect of being devoured by the Gods of Chaos . |
| 5 | The system works by emitting a series of signals to orbiting satellites , timing the return signal and computing its position from the resulting ‘ fixes ’ . |
| 6 | He watched silently and impassively , chewing his overdone steak , and retrieving his cigarette from the ashtray between courses . |
| 7 | At last he joined her , shaking the water from his hair and grabbing his towel from the rails where he had left it . |
| 8 | They now practically set upon her , pulling off her hat , her coat , and unbuttoning her dress from the back . |
| 9 | This line reached a crossing of the Mid Wales Line , of the Cambrian Railway , at Builth Road in April 1867 , then known as Llechryd but taking its name from the high level station which still survives . |
| 10 | But taking our morality from the Bible does not necessarily mean merely taking it on trust and authority , and abandoning all thought of moral knowledge . |
| 11 | To pan a camcorder smoothly , hold it normally while rotating your body from the hips to mimic the action of a pan-and-tilt head on a tripod . |
| 12 | The chemists encouraged people to have fun in the sun while protecting their skin from the harsh rays which can prove dangerous . |
| 13 | Why not be honest and admit it , ’ he jeered while blocking her exit from the doorway . |
| 14 | It means keeping Northern Ireland in the UK state for the foreseeable future while banning its citizens from the politics of the state . |
| 15 | At this point in the theory , the Nirvana principle is conceived of as deriving its energy from the death instincts , and the pleasure principle serves these too sometimes , and therefore it loses its former primacy in the unconscious life of man . |
| 16 | Smiles quoted Benjamin Haydon as dating his decline from the day he first borrowed money . |