Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [noun] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chemists encouraged people to have fun in the sun while protecting their skin from the harsh rays which can prove dangerous . |
| 2 | Whether she was star struck , or simply just ambitious for her daughter , Patsy failed in her primary duty of protecting her daughter from a confused and selfish man . |
| 3 | Hastily averting her eyes from the strong arched column of his tanned throat as he emptied his glass , she retraced her steps to the kitchen . |
| 4 | It means another big question mark against the Ireland future of Moran , the 37-year-old Blackburn Rovers defender who has twice made comebacks after announcing his retirement from the international arena . |
| 5 | ( The ‘ Editorial Assistant ’ apologises to Mr Hearse for omitting his name from the corresponding article in the last Journal . ) |
| 6 | This makes the cortex lie flat , hence giving a smooth shiny finish , protecting your hair from the harsh blastings of hot air at the same time . ’ |
| 7 | She was obviously under the influence of drugs , booze or both and as we approached , typically averting our eyes from the embarrassing spectacle , a girl of about 11 wiped a candle of yellow mucus from the woman 's nose and resignedly helped her to her feet , staring at us with old , resentful eyes as we passed , reminding me of myself and the Saturday afternoon rescue missions . |
| 8 | The administrators-of the Modular Course , particularly Watson , realized early that sustainable course quality depends crucially upon relevant feedback and that course development strategies based upon relevant evidence receive readier acceptance from staff than strategies deriving their credibility from the perceived wisdom of management . |
| 9 | This makes it very different from education , where only the supervisory responsibility is central , while direct responsibility rests with between one and two hundred executive bodies , deriving their authority from a local electorate . |
| 10 | But the character of Plas-yn-Rhiw is subtler than that , drawing its mood from the Welsh landscape and blending its colours with those of the wildflowers with are freely admitted through the gates . |
| 11 | Advocates of this approach based their practice upon the uniqueness of each individual , drawing their inspiration from a whole range of educationalists and philosophers ( Dewey , Montessori , Susan Isaacs , Marion Richardson , A S Neil , Froebel , the McMillans , Bertrand Russell , Pestalozzi , Edith Moorhouse , Robin Tanner and even Rousseau ) . |
| 12 | This pins the souls of the dead to these places , letting the ghosts guard the lands they love and saving their spirits from the terrible prospect of being devoured by the Gods of Chaos . |
| 13 | Eyeing her progress from a short distance Archdeacon Treadwell recognised his duty . |
| 14 | The speed gained by operating her rotors from a paltry 45 kW source was the equivalent to that obtained had another Diesel of 370 kW been coupled in series to the existing two . |
| 15 | The Santos coffees are the best , gleaning their flavour from the iron-rich soil in which they are grown . |
| 16 | Whilst some very local cult developed quickly , it spread only in the mid-fifteenth century , from which time come all the extant depictions of him ( complete with diabolical captive ) , in groups from Norfolk ( Cawston , Suffield , Gateley ) , Suffolk ( St Gregory 's , Sudbury , and possibly Bury St Edmunds Abbey ) and Devon ( Hennock , Alphington , and Wolborough ) ; two texts of a lengthy invocation to him ; and the prosecution ( in 1448 ) of the then vicar of North Marston for counterfeiting his head from an exhumed skull . |
| 17 | MONICA Seles pulled out of Wimbledon last night — only hours after confirming her withdrawal from the French Open , which starts in Paris next week . |
| 18 | An elderly lady who owned one of the bigger villas , Mrs Richards was a well-known figure on the complex , trotting along to the sauna with her parasol shielding her face from the hot sun , and eating paella regularly at Don Pedro 's restaurant before taking a dip in the pool . |
| 19 | A hundred metres of the emptiness-that-was-not still yawned , separating their ship from a ragged hole large enough to admit several armoured Terminator Marines abreast . |
| 20 | ‘ I did n't expect her to have a gun , ’ said Brian Kellerman , peering at the cottage , shielding his eyes from the driving rain . |
| 21 | By stating provocatively , at the beginning of the book , ‘ Je n'ai jamais parlé d'autre chose que de moi ’ ( 1984 : 10 ) , Robbe-Grillet could not be more ostentatiously exhibiting his departure from a textual materialist perspective . |
| 22 | Withdrawing his head from the open door he said : |
| 23 | " The Four Points were the most celebrated diplomatic achievement of the Crimean war " , but did not seem so at the time they were agreed because Nicholas had just begun withdrawing his forces from the Danubian Principalities . |
| 24 | Between the farmhouse mob and the purveyors of alcoholic lemonade is a hinterland inhabited by giants such as Dixie of Bristol , who used to travel West Country fairs selling his wares from a thatched Ford Transit van ; and Dunkertons which produces subtle , bright and preservative-free ciders that even the Boy Nigel admits are like the real thing , only better . |
| 25 | As ‘ social dirt ’ they become an affront to purity and possess the danger of the contagious and impure ( Douglas 1966 ) , requiring their removal from the public vision . |
| 26 | Ancestral gulls therefore probably learned to fly away from gulls pointing their bills from an upright posture ; the posture would then be acting as a threat signal . |
| 27 | There is an argument of increasing popularity with government and some of the advisers to government , that since comprehensive schools are widely seen to do worse for their pupils than selective schools in terms of examination results , and since so many people , if they can afford it , are removing their children from the maintained comprehensive sector to independent schools ( which are broadly speaking selective ) a way must be found for government to supply non-comprehensive schools , in the interests of the country as a whole . |
| 28 | The parent who shows strong disapproval , smacking the child or forcibly removing its hand from the offending area is sowing the first seeds of inhibition or sexual disorder . |
| 29 | They die out , you know , ’ she said without raising her voice or removing her attention from the crowding clouds . |
| 30 | The High Altar and those flanking it date from the 1690s and are decorated in polychrome with good quality sculpted figures , again by Jäckel . |