Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [pron] [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the highly publicized issue in AI 's December report of the baby deaths , Amnesty said that although its team was shown alleged mass graves of babies , it was not established how they had died and the team found no reliable evidence that Iraqi forces had caused the deaths of babies by removing them or ordering their removal from incubators . |
| 2 | They die out , you know , ’ she said without raising her voice or removing her attention from the crowding clouds . |
| 3 | It is simply a method of inhibiting or stopping your debtor from cashing in his assets and putting them out of your reach before you have had a chance to recover what is owed to you . |
| 4 | Plotters work in an entirely different way to printers , they draw lines between two points rather than creating their output from pre-formed characters or patterns of dots . |
| 5 | Sir David , 53 , said that receiving his knighthood from the Queen was an ‘ awe-inspiring and thrilling experience ’ . |
| 6 | recognising reimbursable expenses attributable to jobs , categorising them correctly and maintaining their separation from the operating costs of the business ; |
| 7 | Imagine that you are expanding , and seeing your life from a higher perspective . |
| 8 | When they first met , Charlie called the shots by improvising in front of the cameras and using his experience from films like Bright Lights , Big City , with Michael J Fox , and 18 Again , with George Burns He said : ‘ Kylie was a little nervous when I improvised and it threw her off . |
| 9 | Thunderbirds are back , saving the world — and protecting your teeth from decay . |
| 10 | Aenarion rose and smote the daemon mightily , cleaving its head in two and shearing its arm from its body . |
| 11 | Chickens were being counted even before Wednesday 's 3-0 victory over Northern Ireland , and the inventory was completed when Jack Charlton received congratulatory telegrams from the Taoiseach , Charles Haughey , and other luminaries including Liam Brady , who will miss the trip to Italy after falling out with Charlton last month and announcing his retirement from international football . |
| 12 | This pins the souls of the dead to these places , letting the ghosts guard the lands they love and saving their spirits from the terrible prospect of being devoured by the Gods of Chaos . |
| 13 | It is wiping sick from the carpet , worrying about the size of my thighs , being woken in the night by a crying baby and meeting my children from school that I want to remember , laugh at and celebrate . |
| 14 | Even so , his head hurt , it felt as if the planes of his skull were pinching and thumbing his eyes from behind , in the sockets , as if to pop them out . |
| 15 | Assured by his agents that disaffection was widespread in England and that the Catholic Northern rising of 1569 would win extensive support , Pius responded to the appeals of the rebels by signing in February 1570 the bull Regnans in Excelsis , excommunicating Elizabeth and releasing her subjects from their allegiance to her . |
| 16 | I went to my father and releasing his hands from their grip on the edge of the trolley , eased him down on to the carpet . |
| 17 | If they knew what was good for them they 'd be raising their panamas quizzically , glowering under the brims of their fedoras , flourishing their tweed caps and tilting their trilbies from morning till night . |
| 18 | The Physical Chemistry Laboratory has been conspicuously successful in obtaining outside grants for sustaining and expanding its research from governmental , industrial , and international sources . |
| 19 | Once again Rose took the lead , and removing her arms from around his neck started to undo the buttons on the front of his trousers . |
| 20 | He had , after all , the business and a family to finance back in Broad Street , the cost of amassing and exporting his collections from Australia , and the travel and living expenses of seven people to cover . |
| 21 | This meant adding a civil commitment to his existing military one and augmenting his staff from selected members of the civilian staff at Scotland Yard . |
| 22 | As expected ( UX No 414 ) , Sun Microsystems Inc 's satellite business , SunConnect , is expanding and moving its headquarters from Mountain View , California , to Grenoble in France . |
| 23 | He had started moaning again and moving his head from side to side . |
| 24 | Jaw locking , with the pair head to head , holding each other 's mouth and swinging their tails from side to side , all forms part of the overall pre-spawning display ritual . |
| 25 | And now that I 'm up here the problem is keeping my eyes on this page and stopping my mind from wandering and my pen from straying to the edge of the paper and doodling , something I am sure to give in to before long . |
| 26 | There was a pause , and Faye moved again , settling herself lower in the bed and taking her hand from her eyes . |
| 27 | I smiled , and taking my cue from Reid added : ‘ I hope I can be of service to Koraloona , Princess . ’ |
| 28 | The system works by emitting a series of signals to orbiting satellites , timing the return signal and computing its position from the resulting ‘ fixes ’ . |
| 29 | He watched silently and impassively , chewing his overdone steak , and retrieving his cigarette from the ashtray between courses . |
| 30 | The Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( JPL ) in California has spent ten years running a US government-sponsored project , which has succeeded in reducing the price of solar cells by 15 times , increasing cell efficiency from 6 per cent to 15 per cent and extending their lifespan from ten to thirty years . |