Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] from [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had heard from Werner Meyer that the Toraja custom of burying their dead in high vaults began only a few hundred years ago when Bugis raiding parties from the lowlands began pillaging their burial sites for the booty interred with the corpses , and as recently as 1964 an army general stationed on the island had led his army on similar raids . |
| 2 | The campaign was fought for long periods with all the strategic sense of an exhausted boxer launching haymakers from the ropes . |
| 3 | ‘ If the pelargoniums were overwintered in their old containers then it is best to remove them , shake off much of the old potting compost from the roots and repot in fresh compost — moderately heavy , with good drainage but not more than one-quarter peat or other organic matter . |
| 4 | In Italy , Giuseppe Garibaldi , had campaigned for the unification of his country for many years , gaining Venice from the Austrians , and established Victor Emmanuel as King of Italy , but it was not until 1870 that a march on Rome overpowered the French and Papal troops , and establish a united Italy with Victor Emmanuel as King in residence , in July 1871 . |
| 5 | We saw that the storm had changed a lot of things as soon as we came to the river that marks the end of the island ; it had swollen hugely , carving immense channels out of the sand , great surging brown trenches of water streaming by and tearing lumps from the banks continually and sweeping them away . |
| 6 | Two years later , in 1318 , the Scots captured Berwick after twenty years in English possession and then advanced southwards almost to Pontefract : while burgesses of Ripon escaped the sacking of their town by payment of a thousand marks , just a few miles away the monks of Fountains abbey were similarly purchasing mercy from the invaders . |
| 7 | He raps down his prospective lines using webbing and rope made from non-renewable resources and starts stripping vegetation from the cracks and ledges on the route . |
| 8 | A man has lodged a formal complaint and is demanding compensation from the police for breaking into his flat and confiscating his furniture . |
| 9 | The gathering was suddenly brought to an end as a cluster of mortar bombs exploded on the village green shattering the windows of the café and dislodging bottles from the shelves . |
| 10 | Although insignificant on the map , it has long been a magnet drawing folk from the Dales on repeated visits ; latterly there has been a growing influx of tourists and walkers from outside the county to see the magnificent waterfall of Hardraw Force . |
| 11 | Blake 's work for MI6 included not only gathering intelligence from the Russians but tracking down and watching Communist spies sent over into the West . |
| 12 | Maudie Mycroft could see she was wasting her time seeking sympathy from the women and she picked up her shopping bag . |
| 13 | ‘ We 're seeking sanctuary from the police . |
| 14 | COVENTRY are taking legal advice over seeking compensation from the police . |
| 15 | And with harassed English treasurers now seeking help from the Scots on how to implement the tax next April , one senior council official said he could offer only two words of advice — ‘ Expect chaos . ’ |
| 16 | Crossley nodded and looked round again , as if seeking inspiration from the children 's slides and climbing-frames . |
| 17 | Many of these activities would involve staff escorting patients from the wards into the community for ‘ trials ’ in shopping , using buses , finding directions outside hospital , and so on . |
| 18 | Many of the rather frowsy old biddies who made their living by singing Gay Nineties songs and cadging drinks from the customers , recognized Ella , and several came to sit at our table to have their pictures taken by the resident camera man . |
| 19 | Athelstan walked behind , chanting verses from the psalms . |
| 20 | You can then improvise some solos using ideas from the scales and arpeggios shown in figs 3–5 . |
| 21 | But the very fact that the French were the most intransigent as regards releasing Germany from the cruelties of the Versailles treaty made all the more imperative the need to bring to the gathering at Darlington Hall at least one French gentleman with unambiguous influence over his country 's foreign policy . |
| 22 | When the song ended , he moved quietly among the tables , holding out his wide-brimmed black hat and coaxing money from the customers with a flash of white teeth and a sparkle of peat-brown eyes . |
| 23 | ‘ conspired amongst themselves and others to defraud the plaintiffs , and with intent to injure the plaintiffs , by a scheme for extracting moneys from the plaintiffs by way of inflated valuations and percentage fees and commission payments based upon such inflated valuations and by otherwise exposing the plaintiffs to liabilities , and calculated to make a profit for themselves … and/or companies in which the same were interested … by false representations , including forged and/or fraudulently altered and/or concealed loan application documentation by [ the third defendant ] . |
| 24 | The theology of liberation first developed in the 1960s as a Christian Socialist philosophy which holds that it is the duty of the Catholic Church to work for social and economic reforms , particularly in the Third World , and to adopt the cause of the oppressed , These positions were approved at a meeting of Latin American bishops in Medellin , Columbia , in 1968 and represented a watershed for the church in Latin America , The Medellin documents openly denounced the poverty and brutality of the relations of production in Latin America : withdrawing support from the classes in power the bishops called , most significantly , for agrarian reforms , The documents proposed programmes , based on the method of Paulo Freire 's " education for liberation " , which were designed to promote a new sense of community action for change among the poor . |
| 25 | Three hours later a junior official of the DTI sent a note , uselessly releasing Lonrho from the undertakings not to bid . |
| 26 | By the time Tom reached the house and shovelled his way to the door , Seb and Carrie were both fully dressed and Carrie was bending over the fire , coaxing life from the embers as she prepared breakfast . |
| 27 | In May 200 struck on the Orlov-Vitebsk line on this account , declaring that instead of devoting its energy to extracting gold from the churches , the government should find ways of paying them better . |
| 28 | In the past they had spoken out and would do so again , drawing inspiration from the ideas of democracy and science to help China modernise . |
| 29 | The most moving thing that ever happened to them , they say — but secretly I think it is all to do with stealing thunder from the women . |
| 30 | what kind of things do you want to have audio described , so there are , I mean there 's still quite a bit , but she got quite excited about the idea of involving one of the proper , well not proper , one of the , you know , official professional market research firms , as well in terms of doing this work , maybe , maybe getting money from the Arts Council to actually pay them |