Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten minutes , fifteen at the most , and the wind would be on them , tearing them from the saddle . |
| 2 | Now Koquillion claims he is protecting them from the wrath of his people . |
| 3 | As they returned to Swinbrook on Grye , the gipsy horse , the trees of Wychwood closed in about them and Carrie imagined the sadly diminished yet still proud forest was protecting them from the rest of the world . |
| 4 | The dietary regime began with a three-day wash-out period on freshly prepared fruit and vegetable juices , aimed at mobilizing toxic accumulations and eliminating them from the body . |
| 5 | The president was supposed to be dissociating himself from the Shah not encouraging him . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's being kind to you — protecting you from the truth . ’ |
| 7 | An announcement by the council , dissociating itself from the comments and stressing its anti-racist policy , failed to quell a storm of protest over Mr McNeill 's remarks . |
| 8 | ONE type of wild potato has developed a novel way of protecting itself from the ravages of aphids — by producing the chemical that aphids themselves use as an alarm signal . |
| 9 | But if you 're walking along with a bird on a jess , your movement disrupts it and stops it protecting itself from the wind as it would do naturally . |
| 10 | Just now ( but this can not last she thought , dissociating herself from the moment while she talked about boots ) just now she had reached security ; she hovered like a hawk suspended ; like a flag floated in an element of joy which filled every nerve of her body fully and sweetly , not noisily , solemnly rather , for it arose , she thought , looking at them all eating there , from husband and children and friends … |
| 11 | Well , she 'd spent most of her life flying solo , protecting herself from the rest of the world behind high barriers ; now , after risking and losing all in one fell swoop , she 'd simply have to set about the painful business of re-erecting those walls . |
| 12 | It is also possible to see Baker as a ‘ lightning rod ’ for the president , protecting him from the ire of conservative ideologues who , by definition , would never be satisfied with less than the whole loaf . |
| 13 | He realized it was shielding him , protecting him from the gunfire . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He reinvested in his father 's stud in Ireland , and brought in Jack Dwyer , the best trainer in the country , poaching him from the stables of his mother 's old friend , Hugh Westminster , without a qualm . |
| 17 | The fact that she had been the ship that had sunk the Rawalpindi and killed my father did not seem to me to be a valid reason for omitting her from the series , for apart from the utter impersonality of a modern sea battle , she was by far the most successful of all the major German surface ships as well as being the happiest . |
| 18 | That principle would justify paying compensation from the corporate treasury , and thus from the account of shareholders , rather than , for example , deducting it from the wages of employees who actually played a causal part in the unfortunate story . |
| 19 | In 1985–6 , the government transferred a quarter of the overall funding for work-related FE courses in further education colleges from local authorities ' budgets ( by deducting it from the rate support grant , the predecessor of the revenue support grant ; see Chapter 8 ) to the MSC . |
| 20 | The bronze weather-vane can be removed by simply unscrewing it from the metal assemblage holding it , which takes 2 rounds . |
| 21 | I laughed , and she said , ‘ Laughing is a way of protecting yourself from the truth . ’ |
| 22 | Thoroughly angered , a thousand seamen , armed , we are told , with " cannon , guns , muskets , musquetoons , blunderbusses , pistols , swords , cutlasses , clubs , sticks , stones , bricks and other offensive weapons " surrounded the Exchange , some of them also regaling themselves from the contents of the stores of nearby wine merchants which had been broken into . |
| 23 | In contrast , if you are white , and unless you actually subscribe to racist arguments , you will want to find ways of dissociating yourself from the views expressed here . |
| 24 | On Aug. 12 it was reported that the air and naval high commands had withdrawn their support for the President , dissociating themselves from the incidents of Aug. 10 . |
| 25 | The machineheads are in the older Kluson style , with incredibly convenient slotted string posts for tucking those unwieldy string ends into , thus protecting oneself from the horrors associated with hypodermic guitar string injury . |
| 26 | Today , the medical establishment , in both Britain and America , is of the opinion that dietary fibre is of value in protecting us from the diseases of modern Western civilization . |
| 27 | Merchants could buy safe-conducts and licences exempting them from the right of wreck from the Duke of Brittany . |
| 28 | And then they started recruiting or or or promoting them from the ranks you know . |
| 29 | The text of the letter , which was released in full , expressed regret for misleading the officer by failing to disclose the depth of his opposition to the war , and also thanked him for " saving me from the draft " . |
| 30 | It has got to the stage where it would be cheaper for stockholding booksellers themselves to buy the books from these cheaper sources — they 'd get a better margin than ordering them from the publisher . |