Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [pron] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps he walks on the right side , with just the metal grid fence separating him from the rolling fields of graves — in no hurry , since there is no class for him to make . |
| 2 | Of the Enlightenment as Kant or Voltaire saw it ( see pp. 411ff below ) , as the human mind liberating itself from the self-imposed tutelage of centuries , a new birth of intellectual adventure , they had no inkling . |
| 3 | He chose a place between two snoring servants and laid down to sleep , oblivious to the figure watching him from the shadows . |
| 4 | ‘ At the last pre-inquiry meeting someone from the Department of Transport jumped up and said it was the first he had heard of the pylons , ’ she said . |
| 5 | Merchants could buy safe-conducts and licences exempting them from the right of wreck from the Duke of Brittany . |
| 6 | All the windows in the farmhouse had been shattered , the whole scene resembling something from the Blitz . |
| 7 | It had a large nave with massive columns separating it from the aisles ( 92 and 93 ) . |
| 8 | The entire world shrank to the mere fifteen feet separating her from the man she had thought never to see again . |
| 9 | This prevented her parents taking her from the home of her 18-year-old boyfriend where she has been living . |
| 10 | She had the sensation that if she looked over her shoulder she would find Rohan Saint Yves watching her from the shadows … |
| 11 | As a symbol of his undying affinity to Barnet , Fry promised to watch this Saturday 's match at Halifax from the terraces — despite Flashman banning him from the club . |
| 12 | Fry promised to watch this Saturday 's match at Halifax from the terraces — despite Flashman banning him from the club . |
| 13 | The car plunged into the ocean in the Bahamas and was seen emerging off Corsica — with an ordinary sweeping brush covering up the tell tale tracks in the sand left by the cable pulling it from the sea . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | While all this was going on , of course , Carol was flitting about the opposite side of the shop helping herself from the shelves and tossing things into the pushchair , which with the canopy zipped up was acting as an oversize shopping trolley . |
| 16 | 22 men crammed into a small wooden hut with nothing , but panels and a curtain separating them from the rest . |
| 17 | Taking her arm , he drew her to her feet , his body shielding her from the rest of the room . |
| 18 | When Benny and Eve came out of Healy 's Hotel , they saw Sean Walsh watching them from the doorway of Hogan 's across the street . |
| 19 | These with some stalls intervening , we saw reached to the furthermost end of the main building , a wall separating them from the Museum and also from College Street . |
| 20 | Then , there was a mile of deep treacherous water separating him from the Forest of Dean . |
| 21 | Well that 's thursday behind us and there 's now only one day separating us from the weekend . |
| 22 | He reported after the Sixth Comintern Congress that ’ As a rule , when we tell our Latin American comrades , on meeting them for the first time , that the situation of their country is that of a semi-colony and consequently we must consider the problems concerning it from the viewpoint of our colonial or semi-colonial tactics , they are indignant at this notion and assert that their country is independent , that it is represented in the League of Nations , has its own diplomats , consulates , etc . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The track ran along the lip of the natural amphitheatre , no trees guarding it from the eighty-foot drop to the small lake , so Trent could look out from his ambush across the track to the meadow below . |
| 25 | The problem of living in the big stone-built Manor House on the edge of the village , with the trees shielding it from the road , and the drive . |
| 26 | A male is caged on one side of a barrier separating him from the females in the same cage for 2 days . |
| 27 | One of the students banged his fist loudly on the partition separating them from the driver . |
| 28 | The council houses , of fudge-coloured brick , stood in two rows and a horseshoe shape with a screen of Leyland 's cypress hiding them from the village . |
| 29 | He turned and saw Emily watching him from the bottom of the stairs with his leather coat wrapped around her . |
| 30 | Psychobiology , the study of the biological bases of behaviour , is a broad area covering everything from the evolution of mating systems in the toad to the functions of subregions of the human cerebral cortex . |