Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] from [art] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Microsoft Corp staffer is reported to have told Sun Microsystems Inc that Microsoft would make Windows such a moving target that Sun , with its WABI Windows Application Binary Interface , could not keep up ( CI No 2,147 ) : if the tale is true and Microsoft means it , it means that the company has learned a little too well from its long cohabitation with IBM , and that the seeds of its own destruction are now being sown — for years , IBM added features and tweaked its mainframes with no thought of improving them from the user 's point of view , but simply to trip up competitors , and once a dominant company starts resorting to such tactics , it fatally injures the regard with which it is held by the outside world , and is embarking on the slippery slope that leads to the debacle IBM finds itself in today . |
| 2 | They have passed through the flasks electric sparks simulating lightning , and ultraviolet light , which would have been much stronger before the Earth had an ozone layer shielding it from the sun 's rays . |
| 3 | We sat facing him from the customer 's end of a leather-topped desk . |
| 4 | But social services decided they did not have sufficient information to justify removing him from the Roberts ' care . |
| 5 | But social services decided they did not have sufficient information to justify removing him from the Roberts ' care . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The character has a base 20% chance each round of dragging it from the skeleton 's grasp . |
| 8 | Somehow hearing it from the Duke 's own lips bestows upon his chosen occupation a form of royal blessing . |