Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within months , some clients had in excess of 25 dealers contacting them from the same firm ; many were also being contacted from other licensed dealers . |
| 2 | Of course , such a device is doing more than protecting them from an over-exciting adventure ; it is also in a calmer way building up their anticipation of a real mystery . |
| 3 | Nurturing confidence is one thing , but cosseting them from the harsh realities of top provincial competition could prove totally counter-productive come the two games the count against the New Zealand XV , who themselves will not include any of the All Black tourists in Australia for the Bledisloe Cup series . |
| 4 | Even if an ineffective treatment does not in itself cause damage it may harm patients by raising false expectations or by deflecting them from a better treatment , so this criterion would leave virtually all unproved treatment open to investigation . |
| 5 | The team was able to win some very prestigious senior assignments during this time , deliberately dissociating itself from the wholesale movement of dealing and broking teams , an aspect of search of which GKR strongly disapprove . |
| 6 | I 'm sure I 'm keeping you from a million other appointments . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ That is , of course , if I 'm not keeping you from a million other engagements . ’ |
| 8 | My explanations of this foible have become increasingly baroque of late : I find myself announcing everything from a rare eye disease to undying homage to the early Auden . |
| 9 | Ginny could only suppose that Ralph thought he was protecting her from a possible nuisance . |
| 10 | ‘ Her legs were bandaged in leather swathes , protecting her from the long , cruel needles of the prickly pear . |
| 11 | But with an ocean buffering him from the worst of the raging debate about his future , he is showing no signs of cracking . |
| 12 | But with an ocean buffering him from the worst of the raging debate about his future , he is showing no signs of cracking . |
| 13 | To sidestep any arguments about who should inherit the party 's vast fortunes if a split occurs , the delegates declared themselves to be the legal heirs of the HSWP , whilst dissociating themselves from the old party 's ‘ crimes , false and mistaken principles and methods ’ . |
| 14 | This may also mean protecting us from the seamier side of Chinese life . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | picking them from the muddy ground beneath tall trees . |
| 17 | We 're robbing them from the wild , and including Africa with all this nonsense about saving them from culls , it 's it 's |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Additional facilities include a cocktail bar featuring Dutch specialities & international classics and a cosy French restaurant ‘ Le Bistro ’ serving everything from a quick lunch to a sumptuous haute cuisine dinner . |
| 20 | She remembered mother 's compassion in saving her from the certain shock of such evil envelopes . |
| 21 | If Marc was the ogre guarding the crock of gold , then Peter had to be cast as the white knight , saving her from the dreaded dragon ! |
| 22 | DAVE BASSETT last night thanked old pal Bobby Gould for saving him from a possible FA rap . |
| 23 | It was gone in a trice , saving him from a terrible thrashing or many long hours standing in disgrace . |
| 24 | It has also stood Marx on his head , by transforming itself from a classless society into a caste society ( if at the same time gratifying Lenin 's hope that the intermediate stage of class society might be bypassed ) . |
| 25 | These are usually studied by separating them from a crushed rock with heavy liquids , notably tetrabromoethane , which is extremely toxic . |
| 26 | If anything the gulf separating them from an outside world which uprooted families and whole villages for labour on distant farms , or worse still in factories and mines , which extracted taxes , recruits and grain , which subjected them to constant brutality and humiliation grew steadily wider . |
| 27 | Only an alarming collapse by four of the clubs above Quakers can save them from an instant return to the Fourth Division , with nine points separating them from the fifth bottom club . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Only then , as the brilliant colour swam into her face , was Lindsey aware of Niall , shielding her from the other man 's gaze , gaining her the precious seconds she needed to recover . |
| 30 | Although her brother , Bert , was now employed by a local fisherman , Arnold Spence , and could do no more than a few day 's work at Four Winds now and then , nevertheless her new arrangements left Harriet free to work outside herself and this regular exercise had a calming effect , releasing her from a great deal of inner tension . |