Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The element of playing to the gallery is conserved in the way they portray the fight as a piece of street theatre , with the adults cheering them on from the balconies , while the girls offer silent support , as the boys defend the honour of the white community against the ‘ black invasion ’ . |
| 2 | But then , from what I hear , that 's overrun with bairns ; they 've stopped gathering them in from the streets . |
| 3 | Above and top : Polypterus ornatipinnis — even a large pair of these were not beyond Derek 's ingenuity when it came to bringing them home from the USA . |
| 4 | A plantation of 30,000 artificial palms would fundamentally shift cloud patterns near coastal deserts , drawing them overland from the sea . |
| 5 | The pain steadily increased in force , blotting out the fires on the hill above the melon beds , increasing the darkness until they could make out nothing in the compound below , and driving them back from the streaming verandah . |
| 6 | He grappled with Slatter , tearing him away from the motionless body . |
| 7 | My right hon. Friend has shown the utmost skill and stamina over the past two days in keeping us away from the dangerous path towards the centralised Europe that none of us who are good Europeans want to see . |
| 8 | An empty drink tube rolled between their feet as the jitney wheeled into motion , whisking them away from the cargo concourse and plunging into the tunnels of Plenty . |
| 9 | Oxford , at 34 , with coach Pat Sweeney urging them on from the Oxford launch , began to assert their full power off Duke 's Meadows , drawing ahead while Cambridge , at 35 , began to look vulnerable . |
| 10 | We 've got a very good set up erm my mechanic Mick Day is coming back again tomorrow ; I 'm picking him up from the airport , so that 'll be three years with him and erm I can rely on him to sort of get things ready and erm you know , we 've got a great set up and really I can just concentrate on trying to be erm world speedway champion this year . |
| 11 | In a flash he was pushing her away from the path they were making and into the cover of the undergrowth . |
| 12 | Casting an unreadable look at Isabel , the boy obeyed , taking Ellen by the arm and urging her away from the church . |
| 13 | Instead she lifted her hair with both hands , smoothing it up from the nape of her neck and piling it on top of her head in a soft copper mound . |
| 14 | The soundproofing between its three sections is excellent and helped enormously by the fact that the PA system drops sound down from the ceiling rather than pushing it out from the front . |
| 15 | By contrast , the Historia Brittonum claims only a ten-year reign for Penda , dating it evidently from the battle of Cogwy ( ch. 65 ) — Bede 's Maserfelth , which Bede dates to 642 but which again may need to be emended ( in accordance with any adjustment of Bede 's other Northumbrian dates ) to 643 ( HE 111 , 9 : V , 24 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ I shall be looking forward to seeing you again from the moment we have to say goodbye , ’ Carlo said . |
| 17 | And forever drawing you away from the garden are the stupendous views , of the curve of Porth Neigwl , of the Merioneth Mountains , and even , on a clear day , down the full length of Cardigan Bay to St David 's Head in South Wales . |
| 18 | At the top end , very high-fliers are still in demand , to the extent that recruiters sometimes have difficulty pulling them down from the stratosphere to fill plum vacancies . |
| 19 | She had not killed him , she was leading him away from the open mouth of the cave and towards the distant city . |
| 20 | He reads : ’ Not that way , ’ cried his pessimistic friend grasping Toad 's arm and directing him away from the especially grim and oppressive corridor into which his laboured steps seemed automatically to have led him |
| 21 | In a moment he had gripped her hand in his and was pulling her away from the bale on which she had been resting . |
| 22 | ‘ Why not ? ’ he derided , pulling her away from the table and against the hard warmth of his body . |
| 23 | He now stepped backwards , pulling her away from the piano and into the middle of the room towards the couch , and he had almost to force her to get her stiff body to sit down on it . |
| 24 | A hand reached past the man and caught her arm , pulling her away from the wall , away from the sickening touch of those fingers on her skin . |
| 25 | Federalists are worried that new members will dilute the EC , turning it away from the grandiose schemes of political union and towards the modest goal of free trade . |
| 26 | I was n't afraid of Elizabeth but I was frightened of her mother and I was glad the nuns were leading us away from the road where she lived . |
| 27 | we 're asking for public help in telling us where the travellers are gathering , especially on common or open landThe familiar police tactic is to try and keep the travellers in small groups by continually moving them away from the others . |
| 28 | and getting them up from the cellars . |
| 29 | ‘ Because he arrived out of the blue and did his Sir Galahad act by getting me away from the men . |
| 30 | I was still holding her back from the window , and wondering what to do next , when Mr Edgar entered . |