Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | But with his defence protecting him from any direct shots , Prudhoe steadily recovered , and he excelled himself after 69 minutes when Noel Blake powered a header goalwards from only six yards , but the indisputable player of the season somehow threw himself along his line to scramble the ball away . |
| 2 | One woman from Ollerton was imprisoned in Risley Remand Centre after joining a picket line in breach of a bail condition prohibiting her from doing so . |
| 3 | With a small , helpless moan she surrendered to the muscular arms tightening like a vice about her , gazing up at his hawk-like features thrown into sharp , dramatic relief by the pale moonlight , and trembling at the dangerous gleam in the eyes devouring her from beneath their heavy lids . |
| 4 | Up to then he had respected his old friend 's command abjuring him from creating the vortex . |
| 5 | His eyes searching hers from very close quarters , he chuckled when she hastily lowered her lashes . |
| 6 | A street market in the Rathausplatz selling everything from pottery to radios was too busy for comfort . |
| 7 | They now spontaneously assemble into rods which press against the membrane of the red blood cell deforming it from a rounded into a sickle shape . |
| 8 | Answering machine winks cheerfully , but it is only Mrs Body excusing herself from work tomorrow because of the funeral . |
| 9 | THE ISLE OF Ely , transformed into a notorious offshore tax haven , nevertheless houses an unequalled variety of shops selling everything from local crafts to electronics and consumer goods , all duty free . |
| 10 | Mr Wickins was one of several company directors of the Wimbledon-based Games Ltd firm , which owns a small chain of shops selling everything from board games to computer games . |
| 11 | Perhaps he walks on the right side , with just the metal grid fence separating him from the rolling fields of graves — in no hurry , since there is no class for him to make . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The US sample scores lowest for clarity of problem understanding and production involvement in design , probably representing the standing of the production function in the USA in this industry and the communication gap separating it from R&D , another cultural factor . |
| 14 | Fred , the eldest son , was never interested in the business , his homosexuality and leaning towards the arts alienating him from his conservative father . |
| 15 | The Gorges are narrow , in places improbably so , not more than ten yards across , and deep , with the walls either side rising anything from two to eight hundred feet . |
| 16 | This is a large pool , 6.5 ft by 39.5 ft , with a wide flight of steps entering it from one end . |
| 17 | Caroline paced her bedroom , her furious steps taking her from one end of the handsome room to the other . |
| 18 | Of the Enlightenment as Kant or Voltaire saw it ( see pp. 411ff below ) , as the human mind liberating itself from the self-imposed tutelage of centuries , a new birth of intellectual adventure , they had no inkling . |
| 19 | His glance had never left her as she 'd tapped towards him across the mirror-like floor , dark eyes sweeping her from head to toe to take in her black high-heeled shoes , black stockings and the stark simplicity of the black wool dress skimming her knees , with a sardonic half-smile . |
| 20 | PC Zissler said : ‘ We scoured the building until Tracey spotted two eyes watching us from behind a pile of papers . |
| 21 | He chose a place between two snoring servants and laid down to sleep , oblivious to the figure watching him from the shadows . |
| 22 | It is said to function through the mechanism of the take-over bid so as to allocate the assets of companies to those managers who can put them to their best use , thereby disciplining managers to maximize profits or face the threat of a take-over bid ousting them from their jobs . |
| 23 | She could see Dennis watching them from one of the stables behind Bill . |
| 24 | But those who participate have to sign a non-competition deal preventing them from leaving to work with a rival consortium . |
| 25 | Fish is something of a speciality with restaurants offering everything from grilled swordfish and lobster , to baby eels in garlic butter . |
| 26 | She was aware of those sapphire-hued eyes following her from time to time , resting on her , evaluating her . |
| 27 | ‘ At the last pre-inquiry meeting someone from the Department of Transport jumped up and said it was the first he had heard of the pylons , ’ she said . |
| 28 | It 's the usual imaginative , expensive production , in this case whisking us from London to New York to New Orleans . |
| 29 | An injunction was granted against USI prohibiting them from publishing the phone numbers of British abortion clinics in student union handbooks . |
| 30 | His Anglican faith was visible rather than assiduous ; he apologises in his diaries for his work keeping him from church on Sundays . |