Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] they from " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're robbing them from the wild , and including Africa with all this nonsense about saving them from culls , it 's it 's |
| 2 | Well I do n't know where they 're getting them from , but I mean , that 's what they say . |
| 3 | The trick is to make them think you 're buying them from Harrods , not Woolworth 's at sale time . ) |
| 4 | Yes but this is where we 're taking them from and we 're putting them in here . |
| 5 | seemed to be holding them from better place from the springs we could n't find are n't they ? |
| 6 | It could be argued that if these children were not getting their ‘ dangerous ’ ideas from television , they would be getting them from films , comics and magazines , not to mention their parents ( not that that is an argument for unlimited viewing for children ) . |
| 7 | They are taking them from one list and putting them on another . ’ |
| 8 | No , I would have had to have been snatching them from the cradle then . |
| 9 | I ca n't quite imagine where they were getting them from . |
| 10 | Respondents were asked to describe how they would like to expand their training programmes : this elicited needs that libraries perceived as significant but which were not being satisfied , and information about the factors that they felt were preventing them from undertaking ‘ enough ’ training . |
| 11 | European pressure on the USA to extend its trade liberalization policy grew after reports on April 11 that some West German companies including the Volkswagen car manufacturing company had complained that COCOM regulations were preventing them from supplying machinery to their newly acquired factories in East Germany . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | You have been casting them from that very first night when the gods sent you to haunt me ! ’ |
| 14 | Just one goal in their favour is keeping them from relegation . |
| 15 | Now Koquillion claims he is protecting them from the wrath of his people . |
| 16 | All you 're doing is taking them from the objection , which is , well , we 're not prepared to give a decision , take them from that objection to where you want them do it with me , can you do it ? |
| 17 | The solution to these problems is anticipation , that is preventing them from developing by thinking ahead and taking action early . |
| 18 | Very young babies show rage , turning scarlet in the face and screaming , but only when they become toddlers can they hit out at whoever is preventing them from doing what they want . |
| 19 | I immediately saw an increase in the size of my mushroom polyps compared to their pre-crisis dimensions ; obviously the low concentration of phosphate in my water ( which is otherwise good , with zero nitrate ) had been preventing them from fully expanding . |
| 20 | She felt as though she was seeing them from under a great weight . |
| 21 | As they returned to Swinbrook on Grye , the gipsy horse , the trees of Wychwood closed in about them and Carrie imagined the sadly diminished yet still proud forest was protecting them from the rest of the world . |
| 22 | On the one hand papal taxation was preserving them from Edward 's attentions , except for customary feudal dues and prerogative levies ; it is safe to assume that the laity were adapting readily to the notion of leaving the tax burden , or as much of it as they could , to the clergy . |
| 23 | The man was watching them from a bedroom window , the bat visible . |
| 24 | Someone was watching them from the top of the stairs . |
| 25 | There was nothing new in it to be discovered , and it was preventing them from making new discoveries elsewhere . |
| 26 | As a result of complaints by a group of students that Ebussu'ud Efendi 's colleague , Civizade , the Anadolu kazasker , was preventing them from becoming mulazims , Sultan Suleyman charged Ebussu'ud Efendi with looking into the matter . |
| 27 | On April 15 a group of doctors threatened to strike against the curfew , which they alleged was preventing them from attending patients . |