Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [pers pn] 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 | He chose a place between two snoring servants and laid down to sleep , oblivious to the figure watching him from the shadows . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 22 men crammed into a small wooden hut with nothing , but panels and a curtain separating them from the rest . |
| 5 | Taking her arm , he drew her to her feet , his body shielding her from the rest of the room . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Then , there was a mile of deep treacherous water separating him from the Forest of Dean . |
| 8 | Well that 's thursday behind us and there 's now only one day separating us from the weekend . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A male is caged on one side of a barrier separating him from the females in the same cage for 2 days . |
| 11 | One of the students banged his fist loudly on the partition separating them from the driver . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But with an ocean buffering him from the worst of the raging debate about his future , he is showing no signs of cracking . |
| 14 | But with an ocean buffering him from the worst of the raging debate about his future , he is showing no signs of cracking . |
| 15 | They have passed through the flasks electric sparks simulating lightning , and ultraviolet light , which would have been much stronger before the Earth had an ozone layer shielding it from the sun 's rays . |
| 16 | I and the one other passenger viewed the landscape through the grill dividing us from the driver , the mail , bottles of milk and newspapers . |
| 17 | Eventually they became accustomed to the short trip to it by speedboat , the audience watching them from the casino . |
| 18 | Here and there the line dividing them from the parish clergy may have become blurred , for some chantry certificates claimed , in 1545 , that the cantarist was the only minister available , and generally give the impression that they regularly shared the parish duties . |
| 19 | So much so that even her ‘ father ’ would have had difficulty telling her from the real thing . |
| 20 | Only a mass revolt by AFBD members — which is unlikely - or legal action by particularly aggrieved firms , for example the Commodity Trad ers ' Group , can prevent the great majority of those firms which wish to continue doing business with Americans from signing the commission 's order exempting them from the full rigour of its rules . |
| 21 | For his part , Mr Gaunt claims that 38 of the 50 members who have signed the exemption order saving them from the full rigour of the CFTC 's rules say they do not like the agreement . |
| 22 | Nor did Hincmar say more about a king 's daughters : in Charlemagne 's later years , the political influence of his womenfolk ( mistresses as well as daughters ) at court had been notorious , but his successors had either used their daughters in marriage-alliances , or , more often , placed them in convents , either way removing them from the political centre . |
| 23 | Now it was a pillar of darkness covering him from the eyes of the watch as he stepped out from the trees and walked steadily across the open space of grass . |
| 24 | But the aim now is not necessarily to liberate sexuality ( the sexual drive ) , but to eroticize the social while at the same time releasing it from the grip of sexuality especially as manifested in the ideology of sexual difference . |
| 25 | The Foreign Office design was for a three-storey building around three sides of a court , which had on its fourth side as arched entrance screen separating it from the new street . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The first I knew about it was a massive gaoler dragging me from the Common side up to the turnkey 's lodge . |
| 28 | I have the impression that the novels of Phyllis Bottome are now little read , though I remember my mother borrowing them from the local library in Barnsley in the 1930s , and speaking of them with respect . |