Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] from [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She was so aware of him that he seemed to be touching her from a long way off . |
| 32 | At home many people have a personal medication routine such as taking medications orally ; inhaling them from a nasal spray ; applying them to the skin ; putting medicated drops or ointment into the eye ; injecting them from a syringe ; inserting them in the form of a suppository into the rectum or in the form of a pessary into the vagina . |
| 33 | Philip French wrote in The Times , ‘ Once again , the considerable talent of Michael Crawford is squandered on feeble material , and he is excusably incapable of convincing us of the irresistible attraction of an insipid newcomer called Genevieve Gilles , who delivers her lines as if reading them from the small print of an oculist 's chart ( from which they might well have derived ) . |
| 34 | The first I knew about it was a massive gaoler dragging me from the Common side up to the turnkey 's lodge . |
| 35 | For men such as Sidonius Apollinaris ( c. 431– c. 480 ) , the Gallo-Roman aristocrat who became bishop of Clermont , saw his inherited traditional culture as an integral part of his Roman Christianity , distancing him from the barbarian heretic . |
| 36 | After a roof-top walkabout on the terraces we viewed ‘ Towards 2000 ’ a promotional video describing the dramatic changes that are taking place at the £500m investment site of Terminal 2 , part of a complex that employs over 10,000 people ( 30,000 projected for the year 2005 ) and is set to expand with a second runway taking it from a regional role into the top 20 of world airports . |
| 37 | 2 oranges ( one to eat , one for when children say : ‘ What happened in an orangery ? ’ so that one can say ; ‘ They grew oranges — oh , look here 's one ! , taking it from a Greek statue 's ear ) |
| 38 | The present appearance of the bridge owes much to the Counter-Reformation , its famous gallery of sculpture transforming it from an ordinary thoroughfare into a via sacra ( see p. 55 ) . |
| 39 | He was seeing it all so differently from Gabriel ; he was seeing it from the other side of the mirror . |
| 40 | A cry escaped her as her face became scratched by the sharp ends of broken fern fronds , and the next instant she felt Silas lifting her from the damp ground . |
| 41 | She had met her connection in the usual place but the moment the deal was struck they were busted by three plainclothes policemen who had been watching them from an unmarked car on the opposite side of the road . |
| 42 | The others were trying to drive the protesters away , and a fight seemed likely to break out at any minute , until a pair of uniformed police constables appeared , and stood watching them from the other side of the street . |
| 43 | I have the impression that the novels of Phyllis Bottome are now little read , though I remember my mother borrowing them from the local library in Barnsley in the 1930s , and speaking of them with respect . |
| 44 | He sat watching her from a deep armchair , legs crossed at the ankles , hands lightly clasped . |
| 45 | For a time DeVore simply watched her , following her every movement with the hidden cameras , switching from screen to screen , zooming in to focus on her face or watching her from the far side of the room . |
| 46 | Josey was watching her from the other side of the fireplace . |
| 47 | So much so that even her ‘ father ’ would have had difficulty telling her from the real thing . |
| 48 | It was the question that had been tormenting her from the very moment she had seen him enter the room . |
| 49 | Enlightened bureaucrats sought to put it in the hands of a newly created ministry ; conservatives proposed transferring it from the liberal Ministry of Education to the Ministry of Internal Affairs . |
| 50 | As Woodroffe recounts , he was watching it from the opposite bank of the narrow stream and was so close that he was worried the vole would hear his receiver pulsing loudly . |
| 51 | Taking a tent obviously gives a lot more flexibility , freeing you from the near necessity of booking accommodation in advance . |