Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [pers pn] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a time DeVore simply watched her , following her every movement with the hidden cameras , switching from screen to screen , zooming in to focus on her face or watching her from the far side of the room . |
| 2 | Philip French wrote in The Times , ‘ Once again , the considerable talent of Michael Crawford is squandered on feeble material , and he is excusably incapable of convincing us of the irresistible attraction of an insipid newcomer called Genevieve Gilles , who delivers her lines as if reading them from the small print of an oculist 's chart ( from which they might well have derived ) . |
| 3 | Twenty years later , after including a pledge to abolish the Lords in the 1983 manifesto and dropping it from the 1987 manifesto , the Labour party again committed itself to reform of the Lords : now they planned to replace it with an elected chamber designed more to reflect the diversity of the nation and the regions , but with less legislative power . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The only principle abandoned in 1857 was the propriety of making legal remedies for marriage difficulties available for the aristocracy while withholding them from the growing upper middle class . |