Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [pron] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of water lapping the romantic old stone walls of wharves and warehouses , palaces and towers , there is mud — a pallid dark grey mud , littered with the dunnage of long-dispersed cargoes , bits of broken packing cases , carried up with the tide and brought down again , the rusted frames of worn-out bicycles , the pathetic remnants of somebody 's pram , upside down , its upholstery all gone , motionless , futile wheels apparently beseeching something from the air . |
| 2 | In effect , they are making two claims , one of which I want to call the minor and the major claim , which are not logically necessarily following one from the other . |
| 3 | Somehow hearing it from the Duke 's own lips bestows upon his chosen occupation a form of royal blessing . |
| 4 | As we shall show in greater detail later , Descartes justified his principle of linear inertia by ostensibly deducing it from the immutability of God — a God who conserved the simplest kind of motion in the world . |
| 5 | Leeds played good football , nearly always playing it from the back . |
| 6 | The Communists were busily isolating themselves from the labour movement ; the Independent Labour Party was about to do the same . |
| 7 | The bronze weather-vane can be removed by simply unscrewing it from the metal assemblage holding it , which takes 2 rounds . |
| 8 | Firing the shutter can be equally basic , by mounting a lever on the card camera box and even pulling it from the ground by separate line . |
| 9 | The US side had hitherto accused the Soviet military of evading the impact of CFE force reductions , in particular by transferring tank units east of the Urals ( i.e. simply removing them from the area covered by the treaty , rather than destroying them — see pp. 38027 ; 38122 ; 38217 ) . |
| 10 | Pearl Heart struggled up , then stumbled forward , taking her sister 's arm as she went , almost dragging her from the room , her own tears flowing freely now , her sense of shame unbearable . |
| 11 | He was out of the car and round to her side , opening the door , almost dragging her from the seat and then propelling her up the path . |
| 12 | Had not his grandson Raymond V fulfilled his crusading obligation in his early youth , thereby freeing himself from the necessity of interrupting his career in the county , the principality of Toulouse might have disintegrated altogether . |
| 13 | The result is quite striking : the richer respondents claim to be more prepared to break the law than the poorer ones , despite their apparent lesser chances of actually breaking it from the conviction statistics . |
| 14 | Seconds later , when the Plymouth came screaming around the bend , Manville was safely observing it from the inside of a record store window . |