Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [v-ing] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | To my acute embarrassment , the children seemed far more interested in meeting someone from television . |
| 2 | Furthermore , to the extent that some doctors , especially those recently trained , see themselves as medical scientists solving problems and dispensing cures , rather than fundamentally caring for their patients , they may , in fact , be guilty of distancing themselves from , if not abandoning , their dying patients . |
| 3 | You can score points for the number of ceramic divisions you can move the butt over ( with extra for actually getting it down the hole and extra for doing it from the far end of the gutter from the hole ) , for the amount of destruction caused — apparently it 's very hard to get the little black cone at the burned end to disintegrate — and , over the course of the evening , the number of fag-ends so dispatched . |
| 4 | Does the Secretary of State believe that the action of the board of Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd. in disqualifying us from competing for this work is fair to Cammell Laird ? |
| 5 | He had good taste and was most helpful in extricating one from awkward situations . |
| 6 | Some tried to help the poor by removing them from their environment , others aimed to change that environment and to help families and individuals within it . |
| 7 | Sarella had protested , not feeling happy about taking anything from him , but he had insisted . |
| 8 | Who 's responsible for shipping it from and into here . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps I 'm just unused to getting them from you , ’ she countered . |
| 11 | Lucenzo had been hell-bent on intimidating her from the beginning . |
| 12 | This strategy is capable of converting them from the least profitable product group to the most profitable — for a time . |
| 13 | Critical for hooking Alphas and VAXes , DEC said the platform would be protocol-independent , capable of handling everything from multi-vendor PC LANs to multi-vendor mainframes . |
| 14 | The term conversation is widely used , in a non-technical sense , and people seem capable of distinguishing it from other kinds of talk . |
| 15 | Although Dicken 's Barnaby Rudge was a historical novel , set several decades before the period in which it was written , few modern readers are capable of distinguishing it from the author 's non-period writings . |
| 16 | The latter offer yet another way of affecting the output power of the S120 ; the amount of variation available means that the amp is capable of offering anything from a humble 8 watts per channel to a fairly mighty 60 watts per side . |
| 17 | Bacon and Eltis went on to suggest that labour had been successful in protecting itself from erosion of C m , so that adjustment had fallen largely on I m i.e. investment in the marketable sector . |
| 18 | The new Soviet leadership under Gorbachev has evidently been more intent on extricating itself from Afghanistan through political accommodation . |
| 19 | Under the guidance of Nehemiah and his successors the Jews were intent on isolating themselves from the surrounding nations . |
| 20 | When in 1953 Wyndham Lewis suggested a further campaign to release Pound from confinement , Eliot at first advised against any precipitate step : a number of proposals were being considered — including a letter to President Eisenhower — but he was wary of doing anything from England without being sure that there was approval for such moves in America . |