Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [v-ing] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , after a month of nervously transferring it from place to place as the situation worsened , the French government were giving it to the British . |
| 2 | And while they recognise the threat of this killer disease they are still faced with the dilemma of physically protecting themselves from it . |
| 3 | The result is quite striking : the richer respondents claim to be more prepared to break the law than the poorer ones , despite their apparent lesser chances of actually breaking it from the conviction statistics . |
| 4 | Without totally excising them from your diet , it 's advisable to cut down . |
| 5 | The smallest of the three spotted woodpeckers that have a conspicuous white patch on each wing , a feature at once distinguishing it from the three on p. 197 , while its red crown separates it from adult Great Spotted and Syrian , as well as Three-toed and female Lesser Spotted . |
| 6 | As we shall show in greater detail later , Descartes justified his principle of linear inertia by ostensibly deducing it from the immutability of God — a God who conserved the simplest kind of motion in the world . |
| 7 | The bronze weather-vane can be removed by simply unscrewing it from the metal assemblage holding it , which takes 2 rounds . |
| 8 | Its original function , according to Seth , was to make us feel bad , by briefly separating us from our sense of love and connectedness , so that we would not repeat a harmful act . |
| 9 | Allan argues that these class differences are due to very different ways of organizing friendship ( p. 49 ) : ‘ Briefly , whereas the working-class respondents tended to restrict interaction with their friends ( and with their other sociable companions ) to particular social contexts , the middle class respondents developed their friendships by explicitly removing them from the constraints imposed by specific settings . ’ |