Example sentences of "[v-ing] her from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Her legs were bandaged in leather swathes , protecting her from the long , cruel needles of the prickly pear . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She remembered mother 's compassion in saving her from the certain shock of such evil envelopes . |
| 5 | If Marc was the ogre guarding the crock of gold , then Peter had to be cast as the white knight , saving her from the dreaded dragon ! |
| 6 | But since she had wrecked Luke 's plans for a country weekend with Lexy , and deprived him of the possibility of replacing her from the ranks of his unofficial harem , perhaps it was hardly surprising that he should demand that she herself should fill the gap . |
| 7 | Instantly an eleven-year-old cousin pounced on her , shielding her from the ball and riding her off . |
| 8 | Gradually , by walking slowly and shielding her from the wind as much as possible with my body , I cut the wings-open time to a minimum . |
| 9 | Taking her arm , he drew her to her feet , his body shielding her from the rest of the room . |
| 10 | The multitude parted , the enclosure opened its gates , the press photographers descended and engulfed her , shielding her from the view of all but the tabloids . |
| 11 | Only then , as the brilliant colour swam into her face , was Lindsey aware of Niall , shielding her from the other man 's gaze , gaining her the precious seconds she needed to recover . |
| 12 | The entire world shrank to the mere fifteen feet separating her from the man she had thought never to see again . |
| 13 | The jockey managed to spur Dawn Run to one last effort , switching her from the inside to rally up the centre of the course . |
| 14 | In the former an all-female host of angels welcomes the birth of a new soul , a young girl , into its midst — uplifting her from the bottom foreground into the centre of the picture . |
| 15 | The reasoning behind it being that she would not be able to come to terms with the notion of her mother being dead , so by removing her from the place where the tragedy had occurred and allowing enough time to pass , she would better be able to come to terms with her loss . |
| 16 | She was just about to go inside again when over to her right , by the high stone wall that marked the boundary of the Roscarrock estate , she heard a single , high-pitched whistle , and looking round she saw a face observing her from the other side . |
| 17 | By comparison with a freighter , moored so close her black stern virtually hung over Isvik 's knife-edged bows , she looked very small , but viewing her from the standpoint of the maxi in which I had raced round the world , I guessed she was roughly the same size — at least twenty-five metres long with a good beam and what looked like a deep V-shaped hull . |
| 18 | Lucenzo had been hell-bent on intimidating her from the beginning . |
| 19 | This prevented her parents taking her from the home of her 18-year-old boyfriend where she has been living . |
| 20 | She was unshackled and they were dragging her from the only remaining hut . |
| 21 | Pearl Heart struggled up , then stumbled forward , taking her sister 's arm as she went , almost dragging her from the room , her own tears flowing freely now , her sense of shame unbearable . |
| 22 | He was out of the car and round to her side , opening the door , almost dragging her from the seat and then propelling her up the path . |
| 23 | He swore softly , colourfully , his face like granite as he swept a gaze round the room before lifting her into his arms and carrying her from the house . |
| 24 | A cry escaped her as her face became scratched by the sharp ends of broken fern fronds , and the next instant she felt Silas lifting her from the damp ground . |
| 25 | He had assisted in lifting her from the floor of Willi Zimmermann 's living room when she was blindly unconscious . |
| 26 | And there they were , her ancestors , watching her from the walls . |
| 27 | For a time DeVore simply watched her , following her every movement with the hidden cameras , switching from screen to screen , zooming in to focus on her face or watching her from the far side of the room . |
| 28 | Josey was watching her from the other side of the fireplace . |
| 29 | She had the sensation that if she looked over her shoulder she would find Rohan Saint Yves watching her from the shadows … |
| 30 | She was heart-stoppingly aware of Niall watching her from the doorway , a glimmer of something she could n't fathom in his blue eyes . |