Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [pers pn] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our footsteps echoed as though there were other people walking to meet us from the far end . |
| 2 | ‘ I am presently endeavouring to protect you from a race that considers all human life to be a dangerous , parasitic infection . |
| 3 | ‘ They are attempting to drive us from the Highlands , but they can not . |
| 4 | Admiral Paul Rowe , of Rotherham Starfleet Command , was waiting to meet me from the train . |
| 5 | Well I 'm going to do it from a black point of view . ’ |
| 6 | And there they would greet the men that they knew , and collect what news they could , and visit the cess-pits more often than they would like to admit , while turning all the time to look up here , where the King their leader was deciding what was going to save them from the army of Northumbria . |
| 7 | When George Ill and his supporters questioned the local authority of the Duke of Richmond by attempting to remove him from the lord-lieutenancy in 1779 , they were firmly repulsed by a well-organised but short-lived local movement for ‘ reform ’ . |
| 8 | Is Olsen then going to drop him from the next side if he s not playing in Leeds first team ? |
| 9 | So whatever has happened , I 'm now going to remove it from the acid . |
| 10 | Widgery acquiesced , aiming to do it from a position in keeping with the times , and from his revolutionary socialist stance . |
| 11 | It also seems to be the character of the trust in personam to which a later source , the fourth-century paraphrase of Gaius from Autun , means to refer in speaking of the beneficiary of a trust of a whole estate as having no right to take possession of the estate himself but having to claim it from the heir . |
| 12 | Also , by failing to protect them from the sun , you may cause problems for your kids later . |
| 13 | A hidden mechanism activates , ejecting a series of sharp knife blades threatening to push him from the ledge . |
| 14 | Otherwise we put the continuity of vital work in jeopardy by failing to shelter it from the winds of international currency exchanges . |
| 15 | Mann was tired , and still thanking the Academician for managing to free him from the security police . |
| 16 | They took it to the Gallows Hill , Cumnock , intending to hang it from the gibbet but the Earl of Dumfries intervened and stopped them as he feared rioting by the people of the district . |
| 17 | ‘ A wild rider , a woman , was reaching to tug him from the pyre . |
| 18 | She justifies her response by saying that she is merely ‘ … trying to protect him from the rest of the class ; you know , children ( my emphasis ) can be so cruel ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ Forget about Papa and trying to protect me from the truth . |
| 20 | The same letter also indicates how certain heterosexual anxieties structured in and by sexual difference are projected by Lawrence on to the homosexual , a move which his critics sometimes follow in trying to save him from the taint of homosexual desire . |
| 21 | It certainly was n't because he was trying to save her from a Fate Worse than Death . |
| 22 | And also after his reconciliation with Miss Havisham , for whom he gets hurt in the process of trying to save her from the fire and also because of how he wants so much to help Herbert . |
| 23 | We also tested a sample of autistic children in the chocolate-finding task and found that they were again behaving just like the three-year-olds : going to the baited box for twenty trials , despite wanting to win chocolates and occasionally trying to filch them from the experimenter 's bag . |
| 24 | Why , otherwise would the EC investigating lawyer be bombarded with phone calls all trying to dissuade him from a site visit ? |
| 25 | MARK MOULAND last night paid tribute to Welsh team-mate Ian Woosnam for helping to rescue him from the golfing scrap heap . |
| 26 | the O Little Town were you planning to arrange them from the |
| 27 | It 's a new secret organization of nationalists and patriots working to free us from the French ! " |