Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] from the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was planned as a pilgrimage church with a large crypt for the relics and with stairways leading to it from the aisles . |
| 2 | It was rather like going down into a horrid , dark , earthy hole , where dull crimson firs burned and where grinning creatures might be peering at you from the shadows . |
| 3 | He caught a glimpse of two red faces staring at him from the depths of the kitchen behind the head of this strange boy turned girl who was forever crossing his path . |
| 4 | ‘ You said they were always yelling at you from the fields , and brandishing sticks . ’ |
| 5 | Even while it was registering on her from the newspapers in his hands that he was no lie-a-bed but was up and had been out for his paper , he was taking in the damp , startled look of her and , feigning surprise himself , ‘ It 's a mermaid ! ’ he declared . |