Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] from [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One morning I drove out on my rounds with the headlights blazing against the grey curtain ahead , seeing nothing from my tight-shut box . |
| 2 | He gave him a hand with a large oil drum , and then another , as Nell , tearing herself from her appointed task , dragged over a bench . |
| 3 | ‘ My dear Gwendolen , ’ he cut in impatiently , disengaging her from his new blazer . |
| 4 | Sweat dewed her lashes as she unbuttoned his white shirt , pushing it from his broad shoulders , running her hands over his flesh , pulling him closer , her mouth as hungry as his . |
| 5 | Our system of criminal justice demands that the government seeking to punish an individual produce the evidence by its own independent labours , rather than by the cruel , simple expedient of compelling it from his own mouth . |
| 6 | For the first time in his life Karelius realized how narrow was the gap separating him from his pagan ancestors , the Germanic warriors of a thousand years before . |
| 7 | But Coleridge soon discovered the shortcomings of Clevedon , and especially the inconvenient distance separating it from his literary friends in Bristol , and from the indispensable Bristol City Library . |
| 8 | Fred , the eldest son , was never interested in the business , his homosexuality and leaning towards the arts alienating him from his conservative father . |
| 9 | In it collided two incompatible forces , mental and emotional , alienating him from his own tradition — to which he was deeply fettered . |
| 10 | What does seem likely , at least in part , is that a practice which began in the Sixties — distinguishing themselves from their left-leaning peers through a pose of premature reactionism — has since become an indistinguishable part of their character . |
| 11 | operations of the enterprise may be jeopardised by the frequent attendance of executives at meetings , and by distracting them from their real duties ; |
| 12 | The actual nature of the game is not important so long as it focuses your attention effectively , distracting you from your negative thoughts or your symptoms . |
| 13 | So because we 're doing something from our normal end of the spectrum as it were right through to trying to involve everybody in the city , erm we 're hoping to get the issue across to a lot more people , and also raise money while we 're doing it . |
| 14 | Abruptly , she was engulfed by fierce indignation , flooding through her , rescuing her from her own weakness … |
| 15 | Ceauşescu 's distancing himself from his fellow countrymen , whether for reasons of security or hygiene , meant that his daily life involved him in regular contact with relatively few people . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , hello , Mrs — er — Machin , this is an honour , ’ said Dwight Kronweiser , uncurling himself from his protective position , then getting up with an attempt at expansiveness . |
| 17 | She knew he had an early appointment with one of his lawyers and hoped that that was what was distancing him from her this morning . |
| 18 | In analysing these three passages in terms of a selection of their stylistic features , we have no doubt lost a great deal by isolating them from their literary context . |
| 19 | Engaged in drowning the woman , Fedorov had been slow to respond to the sudden turn in events , but now he recognized the danger and grabbed Lefevre 's sword , wresting it from his feeble grasp as if he were a child . |
| 20 | The name was spoken with a malevolent hiss , as though he were spitting it from his blood-smeared mouth , so hateful was its foul taste to him . |
| 21 | The church hierarchy , which daily seems to see less that is Christian in the Christian Democrat party , is divorcing itself from its traditional allies . |
| 22 | Within minutes of slipping out of its mother 's body and freeing itself from its glistening birth membranes , it finds its mother 's nipple and is drinking her milk . |
| 23 | As announced in Pravda , the newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) , on April 24 , it insisted that stabilizing the country and extricating it from its present crisis was inconceivable without a " cardinal increase in the role of the republics " . |