Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The peace and quiet of the morning was shattered by someone bellowing something from the direction of Brigade H.Q Suddenly into view comes the Brigadier , Derek Mills Roberts . |
| 2 | ‘ Are n't I keeping you from something ? ’ |
| 3 | I do n't think it matters whether or not we call this a case of my distinguishing myself from others . |
| 4 | He looked at Bernard , frowned , then glanced round sharply when he heard someone calling him from the end of the counter . |
| 5 | The risk of having you talk to me is balanced by my preventing you from blundering or delaying . |
| 6 | Lift a few leeks , parsnips and other overwintering vegetables and store them in a shed in case frost prevents you lifting them from open ground . |
| 7 | ‘ I saw you watching us from the window . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ And me buying it from a stall in the flea market only last week . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , but when he gave those orders , he did n't know what we know — about something stopping you from going in . |
| 10 | The trainer then has to decide whether the horse is being rather stubborn and refuses to work because he does not want to or because there is something preventing him from relaxing and settling down . |
| 11 | A spokesman from the Department said : ‘ There is nothing stopping us from asking for a total ban . |
| 12 | One surprising factor is that given a new case is only around £50 there is nothing stopping you from moving everything into a new box if the old one is n't big enough to take a standard size motherboard . |
| 13 | Even if you are running Windows there is nothing stopping you from using your machine as if it was working under MS-DOS . |
| 14 | Her voice was trembling ; he could hear the fear in her pushing it from her control . |
| 15 | Robbe-Grillet 's insistence upon the essentially ludic dimension of all of his fiction ( and cinema ) was also a means of escaping what might be termed the prison-house of reflexivity ; it was not uncommon to find him distancing himself from Ricardou , even during the conference devoted to his work in 1975 , at which he claimed that even his supposedly ‘ theoretical ’ utterances over the years should be construed as attempts to maintain plurality and mobility . |
| 16 | But the broken right shin and thigh bones did n't stop him discharging himself from hospital . |
| 17 | Songs and sketches find her playing anything from a charity ball organiser to a TV agony aunt ( Irish , like Dillie herself ) . |
| 18 | I 'd often watched her carrying them from the pile outside , spreading them out , fluffing them up . |
| 19 | Leonora whirled round , flushing as she found him watching her from the doorway . |
| 20 | Then the front door bell rang and while Rupert went to answer it a somewhat uneasy conversation started up between the two women and Everard Bone about his wife 's flu and the likelihood or not of his catching it from her . |
| 21 | Promoting it financing it from the . |
| 22 | But if you 're walking along with a bird on a jess , your movement disrupts it and stops it protecting itself from the wind as it would do naturally . |
| 23 | To calculate its fictional arm 's length profits , a firm is supposed to assume it pays the same price ( the ‘ transfer price ’ ) for those imported bits that it would have done were it buying them from an unrelated company . |
| 24 | One , the unforgettable ‘ incantation ’ , the ‘ melody ’ and ‘ tune ’ of the services — things which were deeply rooted in his soul , and would reappear with striking force through his music and songs ; and two , his distancing himself from its strictly religious aspects . |
| 25 | I suppose that was to fool anyone watching us from the river bank . |
| 26 | The rats had not shown themselves again , but I 'd begun to feel them watching me from shadowed hiding places . |
| 27 | It 's like me telling someone from India that they should n't write a book about the caste system , because we do n't have one ! ’ |
| 28 | It 's like me telling someone from India that they should n't write a book about the caste system , because we do n't have one ! ’ |
| 29 | My explanations of this foible have become increasingly baroque of late : I find myself announcing everything from a rare eye disease to undying homage to the early Auden . |