Example sentences of "[am/are] [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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We 're robbing them from the wild , and including Africa with all this nonsense about saving them from culls , it 's it 's |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Well I do n't know where they 're getting them from , but I mean , that 's what they say . |
| 10 | Yeah , but we know where they 're getting it from , so we know what , we know what it 's costing them |
| 11 | The trick is to make them think you 're buying them from Harrods , not Woolworth 's at sale time . ) |
| 12 | Well we 're buying it from an ol elderly chap |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | so they 're doing it from the age of possibly eight or nine some people , certainly down right the way through |
| 17 | Tony , you 're joining us from Freeland , and your views . |
| 18 | Yes but this is where we 're taking them from and we 're putting them in here . |
| 19 | 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 , |
| 20 | Oh , 'cos they 're taking it from the East Coast feed . |
| 21 | If I 'm right , why you 're hiding yourself from me is a mystery . |
| 22 | I , I even everybo cos she even , she says , oh I know you 're hiding something from me ! |
| 23 | So you 're excluding it from your warranty and saying ‘ do n't bother us , go back to the trader ’ . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | " The [ communist ] movement is starting to fade away , they are alienating themselves from the people , " Buscayno told an interviewer . |
| 26 | They cover topics including goods selling in and out ( which stores are buying what from the manufacturer in what quantity , and how quickly consumers are then buying that product ) or what type of product consumers are buying , and they give comparisons between brands in particular categories , for example soft drinks , analgesics , breakfast cereals , and almost anything in fact . |
| 27 | You talk to the man you are buying it from and he really takes trouble over you . |
| 28 | And in our region rural entrepreneurs are doing everything from worm farming to building three wheeled sports cars.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 29 | Which is why I 'm tripling it from this moment . ’ |
| 30 | I 'm sure I 'm keeping you from a million other appointments . ’ |