Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [v-ing] [pron] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can score points for the number of ceramic divisions you can move the butt over ( with extra for actually getting it down the hole and extra for doing it from the far end of the gutter from the hole ) , for the amount of destruction caused — apparently it 's very hard to get the little black cone at the burned end to disintegrate — and , over the course of the evening , the number of fag-ends so dispatched . |
| 2 | Since the firm he works for won the contract for the Statue of Liberty , it has been responsible for protecting her from the ravages of harsh Atlantic weather . |
| 3 | Lucenzo had been hell-bent on intimidating her from the beginning . |
| 4 | This strategy is capable of converting them from the least profitable product group to the most profitable — for a time . |
| 5 | Although Dicken 's Barnaby Rudge was a historical novel , set several decades before the period in which it was written , few modern readers are capable of distinguishing it from the author 's non-period writings . |
| 6 | Under the guidance of Nehemiah and his successors the Jews were intent on isolating themselves from the surrounding nations . |