Example sentences of "[vb past] be [v-ing] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd been feeding him from the hand like , oh . |
| 2 | On April 15 a group of doctors threatened to strike against the curfew , which they alleged was preventing them from attending patients . |
| 3 | Respondents were asked to describe how they would like to expand their training programmes : this elicited needs that libraries perceived as significant but which were not being satisfied , and information about the factors that they felt were preventing them from undertaking ‘ enough ’ training . |
| 4 | It was the question that had been tormenting her from the very moment she had seen him enter the room . |
| 5 | She had met her connection in the usual place but the moment the deal was struck they were busted by three plainclothes policemen who had been watching them from an unmarked car on the opposite side of the road . |
| 6 | ‘ It was Bernard , who had been watching me from his office and asked me if I had ever thought of a career in modelling . ’ |
| 7 | Thus in one moment the veil which had been preventing me from seeing you as you are had been lifted . |
| 8 | I immediately saw an increase in the size of my mushroom polyps compared to their pre-crisis dimensions ; obviously the low concentration of phosphate in my water ( which is otherwise good , with zero nitrate ) had been preventing them from fully expanding . |
| 9 | His father had been shielding him from the stones coming through . |