Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You have n't said whom you are protecting her from . ’ |
| 2 | Another possibility is that , by looking like a hawk , cuckoos are protecting themselves from predation — a hawk is less likely to attack another hawk than some other , easier prey . |
| 3 | whatever it is , deflate , and er guy come round , no problems , no problems with it , well I mean the head gasket 's gone and there 's a hole near the wing and bald tyre on it but mechanically it 's , this guy comes round to look at it , I mean he 's been driving it from Plymouth , he 's in the navy , up and down here , bloke comes round , yeah no problem , come on round mate , come and have a look at it , look round it , says yeah I like this can I just take it for a drive ? |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't start that again , Ruth , or I 'll manually wrench your other ankle after I 've spanked your backside for suggesting that I am keeping you from your work . |
| 5 | At the same time , Peachcake , if worries about the future are what 's been keeping him from showing his feelings for you and he 's as much in love with you as you appear to be with him , there 's to be no hasty wedding . |
| 6 | I mean , th that 's kind of you 're you 're seeing it from above as it were , why they should be forced out of the manifest if there 's some other reason ? |
| 7 | ‘ It seems to me that both you and Peter could have done with the friendly shoulder of a mother to pour out your troubles to — you 're reliving something from your past . |
| 8 | I was just going to say , I think what you say on full employment , erm , elsewhere they 're keeping wages and pay up is n't it , erm , and I 've known a couple in Telford again , that there 's work there , a new company it 's perfectly easy to take on all the good skilled labour they want , then they say they feel they 're very guilty because they 're poaching it from across the road , the British company has probably been two wages so that the jobs , it does mount up , so I do n't , I , I would like to know more about erm , what the low pay unit would really do to help us , and I look at this eight thousand two hundred and eighty pounds , and I think that would go an awful long way in the Mr Chairman , in helping to keep that going , which creates all the people who leave and get jobs , and good jobs , and get skills , and erm , I , I , it may be if there 's going to be a big budget , eight thousand pounds is not very much , but I , but when you think an individual project like that of course , any sort of traineeship , it 's a lot of money . |
| 9 | We 're robbing them from the wild , and including Africa with all this nonsense about saving them from culls , it 's it 's |
| 10 | part of the documentation I received , so I presume you 're extracting it from the H and T report of the second of July nineteen ninety two . |
| 11 | Well I do n't know where they 're getting them from , but I mean , that 's what they say . |
| 12 | Yeah , but we know where they 're getting it from , so we know what , we know what it 's costing them |
| 13 | The trick is to make them think you 're buying them from Harrods , not Woolworth 's at sale time . ) |
| 14 | Well we 're buying it from an ol elderly chap |
| 15 | Yes , you 're , you 're approaching it from er , a similar method to Sue over there , you 're saying how much would I need to , to survive and you 're talking small businessmen really , are n't you ? |
| 16 | Based on twelve thousand pound benefit , for the thirteen week deferred period , on the inflation proof plan , so it 's the best plan , you 're running it from , for thirty years , on a thousand pound a month guaranteed income if you 're off sick or ill . |
| 17 | So because we 're doing something from our normal end of the spectrum as it were right through to trying to involve everybody in the city , erm we 're hoping to get the issue across to a lot more people , and also raise money while we 're doing it . |
| 18 | so they 're doing it from the age of possibly eight or nine some people , certainly down right the way through |
| 19 | Tony , you 're joining us from Freeland , and your views . |
| 20 | Yes but this is where we 're taking them from and we 're putting them in here . |
| 21 | So the least , if fact I I 'm fairly safe in saying , that the least commission you can earn on an ad , providing it 's in our you know you 're taking it from our price system not discounted it , |
| 22 | Oh , 'cos they 're taking it from the East Coast feed . |
| 23 | If I 'm right , why you 're hiding yourself from me is a mystery . |
| 24 | I , I even everybo cos she even , she says , oh I know you 're hiding something from me ! |
| 25 | So you 're excluding it from your warranty and saying ‘ do n't bother us , go back to the trader ’ . |
| 26 | His father had been shielding him from the stones coming through . |
| 27 | As well as putting the finishing touches to their epic 20-track album ‘ Gorgeous ’ — ‘ the most diverse thing we 've ever done ’ — DJing 808 duo the Spinmasters have been spinning discs over in the US , while Graham Massey has been remixing everyone from the Sugarcubes to Future Sound Of London . |
| 28 | The problem 's been around for a long time , but what 's new is that in an age when women are releasing themselves from stereotypical roles of submission , it 's the men still locked into emotionally repressive macho fantasies who are having all the problems . |
| 29 | " The [ communist ] movement is starting to fade away , they are alienating themselves from the people , " Buscayno told an interviewer . |
| 30 | We 'd been feeding him from the hand like , oh . |