Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [to-vb] [pers pn] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | A great storm blew up as he approached the island , as if the elements themselves were trying to drive him from his chosen path . |
| 2 | Then I started to get a feeling that the Lord was going to move me from my present job . |
| 3 | Motocross riders are a tough breed … no amount of fog was going to stop them from checking out the sport 's newest circuit this morning . |
| 4 | If anyone found out and if Alain was angry she would fight it out later , but for now she had come a long way , she was tired , disappointed , and nobody was going to stop her from staying here . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She had a job to do , and no Italian Romeo suffering the effect of an over-active libido was going to keep her from doing it . |
| 7 | Then he said , " In fairness to the Old Man , all the rest of it 's true ; I mean he did say you could come back to Drummonds later , for you to have fifty out of petty cash — which was where I was going to get it from to pay myself back " |
| 8 | apparently turned up this morning and they want a hundred pound by tomorrow , and they 're coming back tomorrow for it paying him ten pound a week and thought it was gone and he had er none so find a hundred pound by tomorrow and she did n't know where she was going to get it from , she just stood there and burst into tears and run off going on |
| 9 | Admiral Paul Rowe , of Rotherham Starfleet Command , was waiting to meet me from the train . |
| 10 | ‘ A wild rider , a woman , was reaching to tug him from the pyre . |
| 11 | It certainly was n't because he was trying to save her from a Fate Worse than Death . |
| 12 | I was trying to discourage him from coming , but he seemed determined to make the flight . ’ |
| 13 | She covered it with her hand immediately as if she was trying to hide it from prying eyes . |
| 14 | At the same time she handed off a man who was trying to prevent her from leaving . |