Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [pron] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | so they 're doing it from the age of possibly eight or nine some people , certainly down right the way through |
2 | Oh , 'cos they 're taking it from the East Coast feed . |
3 | We 'd been feeding him from the hand like , oh . |
4 | They cover topics including goods selling in and out ( which stores are buying what from the manufacturer in what quantity , and how quickly consumers are then buying that product ) or what type of product consumers are buying , and they give comparisons between brands in particular categories , for example soft drinks , analgesics , breakfast cereals , and almost anything in fact . |
5 | And then I 'm pulling you from the bed and him . |
6 | Ryzhkov made no mention of a referendum in his address on May 24 , however , and subsequently officials appeared to be distancing themselves from the idea . |
7 | BIG Brother will be watching you from the end of this week when spy cameras start to operate in north-east Essex . |
8 | No , I would have had to have been snatching them from the cradle then . |
9 | ‘ And you were fighting me from the moment we met again . ’ |
10 | I had suffered from these cramps four years before and in Tokyo they were bothering me from the start . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Now Koquillion claims he is protecting them from the wrath of his people . |
13 | 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 ? |
14 | He 's taking us from the airport to what is locally down as the Darth Vader Hotel . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Oh , I was writing it from the board actually . |
17 | I dreamt that my mother was calling me from the bottom of a deep , deep well . |
18 | For all the tact of his dealings with the army , his words and policies in the summer of 1958 plainly showed that de Gaulle was disassociating himself from the ideology of integration — i.e. integration of Algeria into France — that many officers favoured . |
19 | She was lowering herself from the tip-toe that she needed to look over the panelled backing of the window display when something else caught her eye , further down the road . |
20 | Someone was watching them from the top of the stairs . |
21 | Kersey was briefing himself from the paperwork so far . |
22 | Sue was beckoning her from the till . |
23 | Something too fierce was attacking her from the inside . |
24 | She was clocking me from the corner of one bleary eye . |