Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [v-ing] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And King is once again looking for backing from the crowd . |
| 2 | ‘ A modest desulphurisation programme ’ was shelved owing to lobbying from the Treasury and the CEGB early in 1983 . |
| 3 | Oliver wondered what the connection was between playing at stealing from the old gentleman 's pocket and becoming a great man . |
| 4 | The gossip is that she is thinking of resigning from the practice and going back to her home town . |
| 5 | In other words , differences in processing times arising from the greater syntactic complexity of the passive were not reduced by semantic constraints . |