Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [verb] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside , running the water into the misshapen saucepan , Sally-Anne found the stench indescribable , so much so that she began a desperate burst of coughing to prevent herself from vomiting . |
| 2 | In the weeks of intense political feuding before the poll the hard-liners had accused the government and sections of the religious establishment , including the country 's spiritual leader , Ayatollah Ali Khamenei , of attempting to purge them from positions of influence . |
| 3 | A might still suspect B of having stolen something from him elsewhere ( e.g. if he has just discovered that a bunch of keys is missing from the hall table ) . |
| 4 | Much of the energy of the press and television fraternity was devoted to battling for access to news material , sometimes involving conflicts within news ‘ pools ’ and sometimes between news-gatherers and the military , as when the Iraqi government expelled most journalists or the French agency AFP was reported to be bringing a lawsuit against the Pentagon , which AFP accused of having excluded it from the pools . |
| 5 | And also after his reconciliation with Miss Havisham , for whom he gets hurt in the process of trying to save her from the fire and also because of how he wants so much to help Herbert . |
| 6 | ‘ And if you have any intention of trying to keep her from me , I warn you , I wo n't stand for it ! ’ |
| 7 | I even thought of trying to grab it from her but she put it away in the drawer where she kept it and stood in front of it . |