Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] us from " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the day we lay up in the desert , camouflaging ourselves with pieces of hessian sacking against the R.A.F. patrols who were out looking for us from the air . |
| 2 | The launch pad might be in the way , pushing on us from that end to stop us doing the natural thing which is to fall vertically through to the centre of the Earth . |
| 3 | In this new series of letters , Sue Robson will be writing to us from a small-town university in the Yangste River Valley , China . |
| 4 | We felt them looking at us from behind the lace and from the shadowy hallways , peering through their caterpillar curtains at these strangers with clean shoes and light , impractical clothes . |
| 5 | And this is what I think the dream is trying to tell me , a message so clear now you have shown me the way to understand these voices speaking to us from the hinterland , so to speak . |
| 6 | Nigel Dudding , you 're speaking to us from the bar at erm Henley Rugby Club , what was the atmosphere there , watching the game ? |
| 7 | Tiny green balls of light phosphorescing at us from the dark of the bracken . |
| 8 | There were some hill-walkers with ice-axes coming towards us from the other side of the hill , and I was trying to look as though I meant to come hill-walking dressed like a hairdresser 's receptionist . |
| 9 | One thing worth remarking about this is cosmology and astronomy in general is very unusual science in the sense that when we observe very distant objects in the universe we are observing the universe actually as it was in the past , because the light that 's coming towards us from a distant galaxy or cluster of galaxies actually left that object maybe millions or billions of years ago . |
| 10 | They are coming to us from Dieppe . ’ |
| 11 | In and out , on and off , they 're coming at us from all sides . |
| 12 | The island was spread in front of me , outrigger canoes paddling towards us from the silver beaches lined with tall , bending palm trees and feathery casuarinas , while , behind , the green volcanic mountains rose until they seemed to meet the sky . |
| 13 | It came rolling towards us from the west . |
| 14 | Whoever was talking to us from Over Yonder , however , knew all the words . |
| 15 | Six or seven of us were spread out on the grass toasting ourselves when we gradually became aware of a small knot of people gazing at us from across the field through a gap in the hedge , a knot which grew steadily larger all the time . |
| 16 | He 'll be working with us from now on . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Christ , I ask for something positive and they come shooting at us from all angles . |