Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stepped inside and got behind her and tried pushing her from that side . |
| 2 | ‘ If the Europeans fight like hell over new investment and where European headquarters should be , maybe we should consider running everything from here in Detroit , the way it used to be . |
| 3 | The F-A will now decide whether it should take action against the men which may include banning them from football for life . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She was buoyed up suddenly on the wave of amazement and admiration that she could feel enveloping her from across the whole room . |
| 6 | Stop expecting anything from them . |
| 7 | In Lobophytum species , the process is not particularly dramatic ; the polyps withdraw , the body of the animal will deflate , looking as though it has collapsed , and then when it takes in fresh water to stiffen up again , a thin , transparent layer of mucus can be seen detaching itself from the surface of the coral , to be swept away by water currents , the whole process usually taking a few hours . |
| 8 | Scuffles ensued when the demonstrators tried to break through a police cordon preventing them from marching to the tomb of the unknown soldier . |
| 9 | Your brother perhaps will not mind fetching them from the Commissariat . |
| 10 | Would you mind getting it from the car ? ’ |
| 11 | As there is no ‘ use by ’ date on these kits at the moment , it is probably best to avoid buying them from shops which have a very low turnover of stock . |
| 12 | If the therapist had approached the problem in this way she may well have avoided alienating herself from both the patient and her parents and thereby becoming largely ineffective . |
| 13 | You 've er got a copy of my written statement and I 'll try to avoid repeating anything from that document , but it leans heavily on this which is the Richmondshire local plan interim statement . |
| 14 | Holly asked Rain whether Sniffy had named names yet and she admitted getting nothing from him . |
| 15 | But social services decided they did not have sufficient information to justify removing him from the Roberts ' care . |
| 16 | But social services decided they did not have sufficient information to justify removing him from the Roberts ' care . |
| 17 | Iran on April 6 denounced , in a letter to the Security Council , Iraq 's toleration of the operation of " terrorist mercenaries " , and demanded that Iraq should stop supporting them from inside Iraqi territory . |
| 18 | Between the embarrassment of frank sleaziness , the vicious campaigns of Il Sabato against Mr De Mita ( then a serving prime minister ) and the evidence of its own eyes , the Italian church began distancing itself from both Communion and Liberation and Mr Sbardella . |
| 19 | He started accusing everyone from Sam Gristy to Jan Treffry himself of meddling with his fish barrels , and insisted on one of Sam 's barrels being opened as well ; but when it was found to be brim full Martha told him in plain terms that as far as she was concerned , he had lost the contest . |
| 20 | Do n't try distancing yourself from me by calling me Mr Calder . |
| 21 | Still , the dream had felt so real that he could n't resist ringing her from the office to ask if she had a sixteen-year-old sister he could meet . |
| 22 | ‘ If there 's not a properly controlled Government cull , fishermen are going to start shooting them from open boats and you are going to end up with injured seals . |
| 23 | When you 're not out walking around this lovely area of the Borders try seeing it from the back of a horse — the Westertoun Riding Centre will take you out on anything from an hourly ride to a half day trek through the Lammermuir Hills . |
| 24 | This simply means that instead of bending and scuffling around for saucepans stacked up in a dark base unit , try hanging them from hooks near the sink ( where you are going to fill them with water ) or near the stove . |
| 25 | This may also mean protecting us from the seamier side of Chinese life . |
| 26 | If an arrangement is on a glass table try lighting it from underneath with an uplight . |
| 27 | To learn to juggle , take one ball and practise tossing it from hand to hand in an easy arc . |
| 28 | But unable to find the right person , Nikki has now decided to take the children with her , although it means uprooting them from home and friends . |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't expect he liked it , darling , but you are on holiday , and though it was very naughty of that boy to risk ringing you from a ward , you can scarcely be held responsible . ’ |
| 30 | We sat facing him from the customer 's end of a leather-topped desk . |