Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [verb] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Tolstoy himself concedes , in The Minister and the Massacres ( p 44 ) : Neither Gen Krasnov nor any other old emigre was seeking to extricate himself from sharing whatever fate attended those of their comrades who were in the equivocal position of being Soviet citizens . |
| 2 | Unconsciously perhaps Jeanne was seeking to free herself from her narrow and oppressively respectable bourgeois family . |
| 3 | During September there were signs that Jordan was attempting to distance itself from Iraq in order to restore relations with its former allies in the Gulf . |
| 4 | Then I started to get a feeling that the Lord was going to move me from my present job . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He needed all his skill and tact if he was going to extricate himself from this situation and spend the night sleeping in his hotel bed , alone . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 " |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | Admiral Paul Rowe , of Rotherham Starfleet Command , was waiting to meet me from the train . |
| 13 | ‘ A wild rider , a woman , was reaching to tug him from the pyre . |
| 14 | It certainly was n't because he was trying to save her from a Fate Worse than Death . |
| 15 | The lift was small and Rain was trying to distance herself from Oliver without pressing up against Wickham . |
| 16 | I was trying to discourage him from coming , but he seemed determined to make the flight . ’ |
| 17 | She covered it with her hand immediately as if she was trying to hide it from prying eyes . |
| 18 | At the same time she handed off a man who was trying to prevent her from leaving . |
| 19 | In any case , he was eager to start work upon another play and was trying to extricate himself from various official duties in order to give himself room for composition : he resigned from the board of the Christian News Letter , for example , on the grounds of lack of time . |