Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pers pn] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | part of the documentation I received , so I presume you 're extracting it from the H and T report of the second of July nineteen ninety two . |
| 2 | so they 're doing it from the age of possibly eight or nine some people , certainly down right the way through |
| 3 | Oh , 'cos they 're taking it from the East Coast feed . |
| 4 | His father had been shielding him from the stones coming through . |
| 5 | We 'd been feeding him from the hand like , oh . |
| 6 | When the Juntas were thwarted in their organization of a war effort by the spiky legalism of those local organs of the ancien régime which survived in unoccupied Spain , they could defend their authority only be deriving it from the elections of ‘ a free people who did not wish to perish ’ . |
| 7 | And then I 'm pulling you from the bed and him . |
| 8 | What might be watching him from the shadows ? |
| 9 | BIG Brother will be watching you from the end of this week when spy cameras start to operate in north-east Essex . |
| 10 | No , I would have had to have been snatching them from the cradle then . |
| 11 | In the centre of the piece was a carving of a shoemaker resisting four shaggy devils who were dragging him from the embraces of what at first Athelstan thought was a young lady but , on looking closer , -realised that with his tail and close-cropped hair , it was a depiction of a male prostitute . |
| 12 | ‘ And you were fighting me from the moment we met again . ’ |
| 13 | I had suffered from these cramps four years before and in Tokyo they were bothering me from the start . |
| 14 | It was frightening to walk through the Barkhor , where Chinese soldiers with machineguns were watching us from the roofs . |
| 15 | She turned her back on him , praying that he would not touch her , her throat so tight now with tears that it seemed to be closing , her chest feeling as if frantic hands were hammering it from the inside , bursting it — in several raw , sore places — wide open . |
| 16 | Now Koquillion claims he is protecting them from the wrath of his people . |
| 17 | But he can only get a hundred pound back if he 's get it from the bank . |
| 18 | The wholesaler 's only sanction against non-cooperating members is to expel them from the group , whereas in the case of the variety multiples a recalcitrant manager can be quickly removed . |
| 19 | All you 're doing is taking them from the objection , which is , well , we 're not prepared to give a decision , take them from that objection to where you want them do it with me , can you do it ? |
| 20 | He 's taking us from the airport to what is locally down as the Darth Vader Hotel . |
| 21 | It 's to remove you from the source of this , and that is the school you 're working in . |
| 22 | Perhaps the most important point to be made about postverbals is to distinguish them from the adjectives in the last remaining position , the extraclausal adjectives , which occur in an identical sequence of syntactic elements , but which correspond to a different surface structure as in : ( 45 ) the two reformers persevered undaunted two stagehands appeared , breathless They have the different intensional structure : |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Oh , I was writing it from the board actually . |
| 25 | Oh it was bought it from the Christmas , two ninety nine from . |
| 26 | I dreamt that my mother was calling me from the bottom of a deep , deep well . |
| 27 | Later I thought it through and decided a big part of it was that , although he was coining it from the teds , I think he felt he was seen — by his peers — as an artistic cretin . |
| 28 | Someone was watching them from the top of the stairs . |
| 29 | At the beginning of September , 1715 , the mission left St. Petersburg on an incredible journey that was to take it from the shore of the Baltic Sea in the west , almost to the Pacific Ocean in the east , crossing the full width of European Russia , much of Siberia , Mongolia 's Gobi Desert and deep into China . |
| 30 | She was to collect it from the church house in the morning . ’ |