Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [pers pn] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our footsteps echoed as though there were other people walking to meet us from the far end . |
| 2 | ‘ I am presently endeavouring to protect you from a race that considers all human life to be a dangerous , parasitic infection . |
| 3 | They are all cold-pressed virgin oils and should be kept in the dark and refrigerated after opening to prevent them from becoming rancid . |
| 4 | Stephanie watched Daniel , wanting to protect him from Marcus . |
| 5 | It had had nothing to do with the past and everything to do with him wanting to oust her from her home . |
| 6 | However , rather than serving to dissuade us from finding some base for the notion of students ' academic freedom , the epistemological grounding of the German universities holds some definite clues that are worth pursuing . |
| 7 | In 798 those who had plotted against King Aethelred now came together again , probably with the intention of restoring Osbald , for Alcuin wrote to Osbald evidently seeking to deter him from renewed intervention in Northumbrian affairs . |
| 8 | SOMEWHERE OUT THERE my Rose is searching to liberate me from my prison of love . |
| 9 | The pesticide is most frequently used on these crops , and the EPA is seeking to ban it from these also . |
| 10 | The females , young and old , crowd around the newcomer , rumbling murmurs among themselves , caressing it with their trunks and helping to free it from its birth membranes . |
| 11 | ‘ They are attempting to drive us from the Highlands , but they can not . |
| 12 | Admiral Paul Rowe , of Rotherham Starfleet Command , was waiting to meet me from the train . |
| 13 | The attacker went up to the woman as she rode around an area of the south London Common known as the arena , blocking her path when she tried to leave and twice attempting to pull her from her horse . |
| 14 | Even though initially I thought , cor all this time where are we going to find it from ? |
| 15 | Well I 'm going to do it from a black point of view . ’ |
| 16 | Most of us have a major problem when faced by a very unpleasant character who is screaming like an animal or explaining how he is going to separate us from parts of our body . |
| 17 | She had a job to do , and no Italian Romeo suffering the effect of an over-active libido was going to keep her from doing it . |
| 18 | Let the latter realize that virtually nothing is going to deflect you from reaching your agreed objectives . |
| 19 | They might be waiting — waiting to snatch him from salvation at the very last moment . |
| 20 | And there they would greet the men that they knew , and collect what news they could , and visit the cess-pits more often than they would like to admit , while turning all the time to look up here , where the King their leader was deciding what was going to save them from the army of Northumbria . |
| 21 | When George Ill and his supporters questioned the local authority of the Duke of Richmond by attempting to remove him from the lord-lieutenancy in 1779 , they were firmly repulsed by a well-organised but short-lived local movement for ‘ reform ’ . |
| 22 | I was desperately seeking some sort of reassurance , some sort of comeback from someone , but it soon became plain that I was not going to get it from her . |
| 23 | Then he said , " In fairness to the Old Man , all the rest of it 's true ; I mean he did say you could come back to Drummonds later , for you to have fifty out of petty cash — which was where I was going to get it from to pay myself back " |
| 24 | If the Lothian Regional C Council ca n't get their money from a from , a central government , where are they going to get it from ? |
| 25 | apparently turned up this morning and they want a hundred pound by tomorrow , and they 're coming back tomorrow for it paying him ten pound a week and thought it was gone and he had er none so find a hundred pound by tomorrow and she did n't know where she was going to get it from , she just stood there and burst into tears and run off going on |
| 26 | Is Olsen then going to drop him from the next side if he s not playing in Leeds first team ? |
| 27 | In the weeks of intense political feuding before the poll the hard-liners had accused the government and sections of the religious establishment , including the country 's spiritual leader , Ayatollah Ali Khamenei , of attempting to purge them from positions of influence . |
| 28 | So whatever has happened , I 'm now going to remove it from the acid . |
| 29 | All that he could do would be to advise him strongly against resigning , and , as he had done when attempting to dissuade him from dissolving Parliament , back up his advice with a formal protest , allowing Baldwin to tell his colleagues that the King objected to the course he was taking . |
| 30 | For the uninitiated , they met 18 months ago , enjoying a common outlook on music and deciding to take it from there . |