Example sentences of "be [verb] [pers pn] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're robbing them from the wild , and including Africa with all this nonsense about saving them from culls , it 's it 's |
| 2 | part of the documentation I received , so I presume you 're extracting it from the H and T report of the second of July nineteen ninety two . |
| 3 | Well we 're buying it from an ol elderly chap |
| 4 | so they 're doing it from the age of possibly eight or nine some people , certainly down right the way through |
| 5 | Oh , 'cos they 're taking it from the East Coast feed . |
| 6 | His father had been shielding him from the stones coming through . |
| 7 | We 'd been feeding him from the hand like , oh . |
| 8 | I may have been approaching it from the wrong angle . |
| 9 | She was so aware of him that he seemed to be touching her from a long way off . |
| 10 | When the Juntas were thwarted in their organization of a war effort by the spiky legalism of those local organs of the ancien régime which survived in unoccupied Spain , they could defend their authority only be deriving it from the elections of ‘ a free people who did not wish to perish ’ . |
| 11 | The policy seems to be to segregate us from the Chinese as regards eating , sleeping travel , etc. as much as possible , but mainly for our own comfort , so that we can enjoy a higher standard of life than the Chinese themselves could expect . |
| 12 | I 'm sure I 'm keeping you from a million other appointments . ’ |
| 13 | And then I 'm pulling you from the bed and him . |
| 14 | If I take away the minus twenty well I 'm taking it from the same thing are n't I ? |
| 15 | What might be watching him from the shadows ? |
| 16 | BIG Brother will be watching you from the end of this week when spy cameras start to operate in north-east Essex . |
| 17 | No , I would have had to have been snatching them from the cradle then . |
| 18 | In the centre of the piece was a carving of a shoemaker resisting four shaggy devils who were dragging him from the embraces of what at first Athelstan thought was a young lady but , on looking closer , -realised that with his tail and close-cropped hair , it was a depiction of a male prostitute . |
| 19 | She was unshackled and they were dragging her from the only remaining hut . |
| 20 | ‘ And you were fighting me from the moment we met again . ’ |
| 21 | They were making it from a tin of clams , a tin of sweetcorn , garlic and a carton of double cream . |
| 22 | I had suffered from these cramps four years before and in Tokyo they were bothering me from the start . |
| 23 | It was frightening to walk through the Barkhor , where Chinese soldiers with machineguns were watching us from the roofs . |
| 24 | He reported success with Yellow-root ( i.e. Hydrastis canadensis ) as it had ‘ flowered and ripened seeds in our garden , two years past , from some roots which were sent me from the inland parts of your country . |
| 25 | She turned her back on him , praying that he would not touch her , her throat so tight now with tears that it seemed to be closing , her chest feeling as if frantic hands were hammering it from the inside , bursting it — in several raw , sore places — wide open . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It was the question that had been tormenting her from the very moment she had seen him enter the room . |
| 28 | Now Koquillion claims he is protecting them from the wrath of his people . |
| 29 | He 's saved you from a long prison-term . |
| 30 | But he can only get a hundred pound back if he 's get it from the bank . |