Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The element of playing to the gallery is conserved in the way they portray the fight as a piece of street theatre , with the adults cheering them on from the balconies , while the girls offer silent support , as the boys defend the honour of the white community against the ‘ black invasion ’ . |
| 2 | But then , from what I hear , that 's overrun with bairns ; they 've stopped gathering them in from the streets . |
| 3 | Mark Tansey , he of the sly sense of humour , has often explored landscapes , sometimes building them up from what appear to be lines of typography . |
| 4 | FORTY children collapsed with suspected food poisoning on a coach bringing them home from France . |
| 5 | Above and top : Polypterus ornatipinnis — even a large pair of these were not beyond Derek 's ingenuity when it came to bringing them home from the USA . |
| 6 | A plantation of 30,000 artificial palms would fundamentally shift cloud patterns near coastal deserts , drawing them overland from the sea . |
| 7 | But this year an even more offensive marketing ploy is keeping me away from my Christmas shopping . |
| 8 | You 're his guardian angel — the one person keeping me away from him . |
| 9 | If you are a teacher , a youth worker or someone with responsibility for young people , you can make a real contribution toward keeping them away from crime . |
| 10 | The pain steadily increased in force , blotting out the fires on the hill above the melon beds , increasing the darkness until they could make out nothing in the compound below , and driving them back from the streaming verandah . |
| 11 | After that he was a changed man , keeping everyone away from him and insisting on moving to the North Bastion Tower . ’ |
| 12 | That man is bent on takin' you away from us . |
| 13 | If she did n't tell him he might accuse her of keeping something else from him and it might be best to know it all , might n't it ? |
| 14 | Suddenly the idea of tearing herself away from Jack 's warm , firm body , even for a minute , seemed heartbreaking . |
| 15 | ‘ That one who was in that movie about that writer , ’ said Felicity , tearing herself away from herself and her rash . |
| 16 | She was tearing herself away from him and spinning round to face him , a storm in her eyes that was only part fury . |
| 17 | Tearing herself away from him , she viewed him distractedly , her mouth still sweetly aching from the impact of his kisses . |
| 18 | Reluctantly tearing herself away from Marc as they went to ready themselves for the ceremony later on , she changed rapidly into the coat-dress bought for the wedding , then did her face and piled up her hair . |
| 19 | ‘ Ruggiero was driving her back from Rome late one night , and somehow the car left the road and ended up against a tree . |
| 20 | He grappled with Slatter , tearing him away from the motionless body . |
| 21 | It was almost as if someone were keeping her away from trouble . |
| 22 | There was a reasonable case to be made out for keeping her away from Nice . |
| 23 | But it 's not that that 's keeping him away from tomorrow 's London marathon . |
| 24 | There was no real way of keeping him away from Irish friends … unless of course , he were to have an accident too — something that would keep him at home for several months preferably . |
| 25 | If that guarantees he will stay at Leeds for the rest of his career , is nt that BETTER than say signing him now from somewhere else ? ? |
| 26 | For a small charge , avoid having to carry luggage by booking it through from airport to destination . |
| 27 | Since downloading the file I 've had severe difficulty tearing myself away from this game , such is the enjoyment and frustration I 've had from it . |
| 28 | My right hon. Friend has shown the utmost skill and stamina over the past two days in keeping us away from the dangerous path towards the centralised Europe that none of us who are good Europeans want to see . |
| 29 | ‘ Wants attention , he does , ’ murmured Tom , drawing himself away from the window . |
| 30 | Where such pupils also have speech impairments , there may be a case for exempting them altogether from — or modifying — some of the assessment arrangements , even if they continue to pursue the attainment targets and programmes of study . |