Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [pers pn] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | His eyes searching hers from very close quarters , he chuckled when she hastily lowered her lashes . |
| 3 | Fred , the eldest son , was never interested in the business , his homosexuality and leaning towards the arts alienating him from his conservative father . |
| 4 | This is a large pool , 6.5 ft by 39.5 ft , with a wide flight of steps entering it from one end . |
| 5 | Caroline paced her bedroom , her furious steps taking her from one end of the handsome room to the other . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | PC Zissler said : ‘ We scoured the building until Tracey spotted two eyes watching us from behind a pile of papers . |
| 8 | She was aware of those sapphire-hued eyes following her from time to time , resting on her , evaluating her . |
| 9 | An injunction was granted against USI prohibiting them from publishing the phone numbers of British abortion clinics in student union handbooks . |
| 10 | Levering himself up to sit back on his heels and pulling her easily with him , he lifted her on to his lap , so that she found herself straddling him , her naked breasts pressed against the sensuous roughness of his chest , with only thin swimming costumes protecting her from ultimate intimacy . |
| 11 | Merchants could buy safe-conducts and licences exempting them from the right of wreck from the Duke of Brittany . |
| 12 | It had a large nave with massive columns separating it from the aisles ( 92 and 93 ) . |
| 13 | The entire world shrank to the mere fifteen feet separating her from the man she had thought never to see again . |
| 14 | This prevented her parents taking her from the home of her 18-year-old boyfriend where she has been living . |
| 15 | In an action for breach of an agreement embodied in a Tomlin order the plaintiff was granted an injunction against the defendants restraining them from ‘ selling disposing or otherwise dealing with seeking to sell dispose or deal with ’ property of which they owned the freehold . |
| 16 | Within months , some clients had in excess of 25 dealers contacting them from the same firm ; many were also being contacted from other licensed dealers . |
| 17 | He reported after the Sixth Comintern Congress that ’ As a rule , when we tell our Latin American comrades , on meeting them for the first time , that the situation of their country is that of a semi-colony and consequently we must consider the problems concerning it from the viewpoint of our colonial or semi-colonial tactics , they are indignant at this notion and assert that their country is independent , that it is represented in the League of Nations , has its own diplomats , consulates , etc . ’ |
| 18 | What with the cacophony of sounds assailing us from all sides and the crowd of shoppers jostling and pressing between and around us , this reply may not give him a very clear indication of where I am standing . |
| 19 | It is not concerned with the merits of the instruments but rather with whether the special attention of the House should be drawn to the legislation in that it : ( a ) imposes a tax or fee on the public or a charge on the public revenue ; ( b ) is made pursuant of an enactment containing specific provisions excluding it from challenge in the courts ; ( c ) purports to have retrospective effect when there is no express authority in the enabling statute ; ( d ) has been unduly delayed in publication or laying before Parliament ; ( e ) has come into operation before being laid before Parliament and there has been unjustifiable delay in informing the Speaker ; ( f ) is of doubtful vires or makes some unusual or unexpected use of the powers conferred by the enabling statute ; ( g ) calls for any special reason of form or content , for elucidation ; ( h ) is defective in its drafting . |
| 20 | Its grounds were small for so large a house , no more than two shrubberies dividing it from its neighbours , and at the rear a stretch of lawn with trees ran down to a fence . |
| 21 | The Brackley blooms are brought out early with a little help from 400 watt lamps sunning them from January onwards . |
| 22 | Securing himself in the newly built citadel on a hill overlooking the Fatimid city , Salah al-Din also launched his army once more against the Crusaders driving them from Jerusalem in 1178 . |
| 23 | The track ran along the lip of the natural amphitheatre , no trees guarding it from the eighty-foot drop to the small lake , so Trent could look out from his ambush across the track to the meadow below . |
| 24 | The problem of living in the big stone-built Manor House on the edge of the village , with the trees shielding it from the road , and the drive . |
| 25 | When I arrived at Althorp the housekeeper , Joyce Cole , told me that she had orders banning me from touching anything in the house . |
| 26 | She has endured house arrest , detentions without trial , continual harassment by the police and orders banning her from political activity , while , all the time , never shrinking from her duties of leadership in the thankless battle against apartheid . |
| 27 | We can define a system as an organised unitary whole composed of interdependent parts or sub-systems and with boundaries separating it from its environment and other systems . |
| 28 | ‘ We 've had a trickle of players joining us from Squashtec , ’ says Durham 's general manager Nick Clifford . |
| 29 | As a group swells in size with natural increase of population and with new members joining it from outside , it eventually reaches a point where it ceases to enjoy an optimum exploitative relationship with its physical and economic resources . |
| 30 | To prevent this happening chemical agents known as sequestrants are used which bind up the residues preventing them from dropping out of solution . |