Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The advantage of this is that the secretaries can be laid off during the summer recess , and MPs can avoid the cost of employing them from the ‘ expenses ’ allowance . |
| 3 | Ten minutes , fifteen at the most , and the wind would be on them , tearing them from the saddle . |
| 4 | Now Koquillion claims he is protecting them from the wrath of his people . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Of course , such a device is doing more than protecting them from an over-exciting adventure ; it is also in a calmer way building up their anticipation of a real mystery . |
| 7 | Nurturing confidence is one thing , but cosseting them from the harsh realities of top provincial competition could prove totally counter-productive come the two games the count against the New Zealand XV , who themselves will not include any of the All Black tourists in Australia for the Bledisloe Cup series . |
| 8 | Even if an ineffective treatment does not in itself cause damage it may harm patients by raising false expectations or by deflecting them from a better treatment , so this criterion would leave virtually all unproved treatment open to investigation . |
| 9 | The dietary regime began with a three-day wash-out period on freshly prepared fruit and vegetable juices , aimed at mobilizing toxic accumulations and eliminating them from the body . |
| 10 | The president was supposed to be dissociating himself from the Shah not encouraging him . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's being kind to you — protecting you from the truth . ’ |
| 12 | The team was able to win some very prestigious senior assignments during this time , deliberately dissociating itself from the wholesale movement of dealing and broking teams , an aspect of search of which GKR strongly disapprove . |
| 13 | An announcement by the council , dissociating itself from the comments and stressing its anti-racist policy , failed to quell a storm of protest over Mr McNeill 's remarks . |
| 14 | I 'm sure I 'm keeping you from a million other appointments . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ That is , of course , if I 'm not keeping you from a million other engagements . ’ |
| 16 | ONE type of wild potato has developed a novel way of protecting itself from the ravages of aphids — by producing the chemical that aphids themselves use as an alarm signal . |
| 17 | But if you 're walking along with a bird on a jess , your movement disrupts it and stops it protecting itself from the wind as it would do naturally . |
| 18 | My explanations of this foible have become increasingly baroque of late : I find myself announcing everything from a rare eye disease to undying homage to the early Auden . |
| 19 | Just now ( but this can not last she thought , dissociating herself from the moment while she talked about boots ) just now she had reached security ; she hovered like a hawk suspended ; like a flag floated in an element of joy which filled every nerve of her body fully and sweetly , not noisily , solemnly rather , for it arose , she thought , looking at them all eating there , from husband and children and friends … |
| 20 | Well , she 'd spent most of her life flying solo , protecting herself from the rest of the world behind high barriers ; now , after risking and losing all in one fell swoop , she 'd simply have to set about the painful business of re-erecting those walls . |
| 21 | When Willis came out , England were 197 ahead with 151 minutes and twenty overs left and there can not have been many who doubted West Indies would win , but with Willis lunging his left leg forward and Willey protecting him from the strike as much as possible , they began to put together a remarkable stand . |
| 22 | He realized it was shielding him , protecting him from the gunfire . |
| 23 | It is also possible to see Baker as a ‘ lightning rod ’ for the president , protecting him from the ire of conservative ideologues who , by definition , would never be satisfied with less than the whole loaf . |
| 24 | Ginny could only suppose that Ralph thought he was protecting her from a possible nuisance . |
| 25 | Since the firm he works for won the contract for the Statue of Liberty , it has been responsible for protecting her from the ravages of harsh Atlantic weather . |
| 26 | ‘ Her legs were bandaged in leather swathes , protecting her from the long , cruel needles of the prickly pear . |
| 27 | Today 's run in a handicap is a step up in class , but David Chapman , who trains at Stillington , North Yorkshire , has clearly brought about a change in the colt 's attitude since acquiring him from a Lambourn yard just two months ago . |
| 28 | He reinvested in his father 's stud in Ireland , and brought in Jack Dwyer , the best trainer in the country , poaching him from the stables of his mother 's old friend , Hugh Westminster , without a qualm . |
| 29 | The fact that she had been the ship that had sunk the Rawalpindi and killed my father did not seem to me to be a valid reason for omitting her from the series , for apart from the utter impersonality of a modern sea battle , she was by far the most successful of all the major German surface ships as well as being the happiest . |
| 30 | But with an ocean buffering him from the worst of the raging debate about his future , he is showing no signs of cracking . |