Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent years , I have preferred launching my attack from the bank , rather than from the boat ; and even in high winds , when most of the loch is churned up , clear patches of water may be found along the lee shore . |
| 2 | That tightened Mala 's back muscles — and mine too , though I was more concerned with keeping my jaw from falling open . |
| 3 | ‘ The worst was keeping my hands from my dagger and my mouth shut . |
| 4 | Many fish have ingenious ways of protecting their eggs from predators , — mostly other fish . |
| 5 | The chemists encouraged people to have fun in the sun while protecting their skin from the harsh rays which can prove dangerous . |
| 6 | Although speakers stressed the importance of welcoming Quebec into a reformed federal structure , the party failed to address detailed constitutional change , and one of the party 's Quebec MPs denounced the resolution as a cosmetic exercise , announcing her resignation from the PCP . |
| 7 | She had had to put her arms around his neck , but it had been hard keeping her hands from charting the planes of his shoulders as they had wanted to do . |
| 8 | She took a deep breath , keeping her eyes from his tanned face . |
| 9 | Whether she was star struck , or simply just ambitious for her daughter , Patsy failed in her primary duty of protecting her daughter from a confused and selfish man . |
| 10 | The National Trust runs its hundreds of properties as a charity … and apart from protecting its charges from the ravages of winter , covering up saves them five months dusting . |
| 11 | The non-crystalline , that is the amorphous cellulose , has no mechanism for protecting its hydroxyls from moisture , since most of them are not firmly attached to their neighbours , and so they pick up a shell , round each hydroxyl , of any water molecules which are available . |
| 12 | McLeish , who had understood from Francesca 's report of her lunch that she and her seniors were indeed going to push for assistance , was amused to hear that she had not succeeded in disguising her intentions from Miss Morgan . |
| 13 | Aenarion rose and smote the daemon mightily , cleaving its head in two and shearing its arm from its body . |
| 14 | BA is keeping its distance from attempts by Stephen Wolf and Jay Pritzker to revive the bidding consortium , but there are still hopes in the US that it could be persuaded to step in at the last minute to add weight to a new bid . |
| 15 | Isabel screamed again , twisting her head from side to side , catapulted brutally into panic-stricken hysteria . |
| 16 | For long hours at night , I have watched the dim lights of all these trucks winding their way from north to south like the coils of some gigantic snake which had no end to it . ’ |
| 17 | She felt the beginning sting of tears in her eyes , and she shook her head wildly , averting her face from him . |
| 18 | She crossed the dinosaur gallery , carefully averting her eyes from her own display , unlocked the solid door and arrived in the security and peace of her own office . |
| 19 | Averting her eyes from him , she speared a tender wedge of pork with her fork , and put it in her mouth . |
| 20 | Robyn queried awkwardly , averting her eyes from the feast of muscle , the dark , dark hair that travelled from his chest down and down … |
| 21 | She shivered as a stray gust of wind whistled around the corner of a side-street , averting her eyes from the shadows cast by the encroaching house frontages . |
| 22 | Hastily averting her eyes from the strong arched column of his tanned throat as he emptied his glass , she retraced her steps to the kitchen . |
| 23 | Gradually the sound came closer until it was bellowing overhead , hurling its echo from mountain to mountain over the valley . |
| 24 | Robyn backed away , tearing her arm from his hold , and scrambled to her feet , shaking . |
| 25 | Or , to put the matter more honestly , thought Dorothea Gilberd , tearing her glance from Tom Tedder , why do n't they prescribe books that Burleigh School has already got copies of ? |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm surprised you did n't set up somewhere in a city , ’ she went on , tearing her glance from his face . |
| 27 | It means unplugging his wires from his body . |
| 28 | In a statement announcing his resignation from the CPSU after its central control commission had recommended his expulsion because of " actions contravening Party statutes and leading to a schism in the Party " [ for Yakovlev 's leadership of the Democratic Reform Movement see p. 38347 ] , he said : " I want to warn society that an influential Stalinist clique has been formed within the leading nucleus of the party , which is against the political course of 1985 [ the year of Gorbachev 's accession ] … |
| 29 | Chickens were being counted even before Wednesday 's 3-0 victory over Northern Ireland , and the inventory was completed when Jack Charlton received congratulatory telegrams from the Taoiseach , Charles Haughey , and other luminaries including Liam Brady , who will miss the trip to Italy after falling out with Charlton last month and announcing his retirement from international football . |
| 30 | He chose this occasion for announcing his retirement from the Treasurership which he had held for thirty years . |