Example sentences of "[v-ing] her from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But since she had wrecked Luke 's plans for a country weekend with Lexy , and deprived him of the possibility of replacing her from the ranks of his unofficial harem , perhaps it was hardly surprising that he should demand that she herself should fill the gap . |
| 4 | Taking her arm , he drew her to her feet , his body shielding her from the rest of the room . |
| 5 | Instantly an eleven-year-old cousin pounced on her , shielding her from the ball and riding her off . |
| 6 | Gradually , by walking slowly and shielding her from the wind as much as possible with my body , I cut the wings-open time to a minimum . |
| 7 | The multitude parted , the enclosure opened its gates , the press photographers descended and engulfed her , shielding her from the view of all but the tabloids . |
| 8 | The entire world shrank to the mere fifteen feet separating her from the man she had thought never to see again . |
| 9 | The jockey managed to spur Dawn Run to one last effort , switching her from the inside to rally up the centre of the course . |
| 10 | The reasoning behind it being that she would not be able to come to terms with the notion of her mother being dead , so by removing her from the place where the tragedy had occurred and allowing enough time to pass , she would better be able to come to terms with her loss . |
| 11 | By comparison with a freighter , moored so close her black stern virtually hung over Isvik 's knife-edged bows , she looked very small , but viewing her from the standpoint of the maxi in which I had raced round the world , I guessed she was roughly the same size — at least twenty-five metres long with a good beam and what looked like a deep V-shaped hull . |
| 12 | Lucenzo had been hell-bent on intimidating her from the beginning . |
| 13 | This prevented her parents taking her from the home of her 18-year-old boyfriend where she has been living . |
| 14 | He was out of the car and round to her side , opening the door , almost dragging her from the seat and then propelling her up the path . |
| 15 | Pearl Heart struggled up , then stumbled forward , taking her sister 's arm as she went , almost dragging her from the room , her own tears flowing freely now , her sense of shame unbearable . |
| 16 | He swore softly , colourfully , his face like granite as he swept a gaze round the room before lifting her into his arms and carrying her from the house . |
| 17 | He had assisted in lifting her from the floor of Willi Zimmermann 's living room when she was blindly unconscious . |
| 18 | She had the sensation that if she looked over her shoulder she would find Rohan Saint Yves watching her from the shadows … |
| 19 | And there they were , her ancestors , watching her from the walls . |
| 20 | She was heart-stoppingly aware of Niall watching her from the doorway , a glimmer of something she could n't fathom in his blue eyes . |
| 21 | Leonora whirled round , flushing as she found him watching her from the doorway . |
| 22 | Still , the dream had felt so real that he could n't resist ringing her from the office to ask if she had a sixteen-year-old sister he could meet . |
| 23 | Even as another rolling hill of a wave tumbled her dizzyingly further into the ‘ chute , the air was hissing and venting in her breathing system , easing the pain , and delivering her from the edge of eternity . |
| 24 | Sue was beckoning her from the till . |
| 25 | Cold , and terrified of growing colder , so that when he opened his arms and put them around her , his musk-scented cloak coming with them , ample enough to cover them both , all she felt was the salvation of his warmth , his hard , hot body supporting her as she shook and shivered against him , that blessed , beautiful fur enclosing her as in a nest , muffling her from the killing storm . |
| 26 | Something too fierce was attacking her from the inside . |