Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [pers pn] from [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The dietary regime began with a three-day wash-out period on freshly prepared fruit and vegetable juices , aimed at mobilizing toxic accumulations and eliminating them from the body . |
2 | Instinctively he waved it from his face before getting to his feet and brushing it from the lapels of his overcoat . |
3 | Absolutely , ’ he said , hooking an arm around the man 's shoulders and leading him from the porch . |
4 | I watched in disbelief as the Con-Sec paid her , counting out the notes and thumbing them from a pile on to the table in front of her so that all could witness his honesty . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Valerie Eliot was also his protector — as a secretary she had for a long time been organizing his daily life and guarding him from the world , and it was probably the calm assurance of her presence which first drew him towards her . |
7 | It is a bit like trying to describe to a blind person what is a horse and distinguishing it from a bull . |
8 | But what this meant in reality was recruiting a thin stratum of educated and loyal workers and removing them from the factory floor . |
9 | Marx argued that the former might lead , through unemployment , to working class unrest and the latter would , in tying up capital and removing it from the circulation of capital , reduce the rate of profits made in production . |
10 | As you see , expected rate of fat loss has always been estimated simply by counting the calories consumed in the form of food , any food , and subtracting them from the number the body requires for energy . |
11 | She closed her eyes and rethought them , blanking their memories and recreating them from the emptiness up . |
12 | However jewel-like the good will may be in its own right , there is a morally significant difference between rescuing someone from a burning building and dropping him from a twelfth storey window while trying to rescue him . |
13 | Twenty years later , after including a pledge to abolish the Lords in the 1983 manifesto and dropping it from the 1987 manifesto , the Labour party again committed itself to reform of the Lords : now they planned to replace it with an elected chamber designed more to reflect the diversity of the nation and the regions , but with less legislative power . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | In a busy laboratory large numbers of Petri dishes can accumulate quite rapidly and the most convenient and safest way of storing and retrieving them from the incubator is to stack the dishes on narrow Perspex trays which extend the depth of the incubator . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | The Temperance Society meeting on the village green in the hope of turning the local ungodly into Christians and freeing them from the ‘ demon drink ’ . |