Example sentences of "from [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Misperceptions of elderly people — from seeing them as a burden and expecting them to be docile , to assuming that older people can not be aggressive or violent — play a part in how physical abuse is perceived . |
| 2 | You 've lost your ships , you 've lost your friends in Ireland , you 've lost the Lady Emma and the active support of the Pope , but you 're still strong enough to stop Harald of Norway from using you as a base , and you 're no threat to Wessex so long as you get rid of those Normans . ’ |
| 3 | A 300dpi scanner can manage to scan in line artwork but , apart from using it as a guide , photographs are best left well alone . |
| 4 | Mr Ross , who is convinced that eleutherococcus could be a major factor in the fight against physical and mental fatigue , said : ‘ He has validated our claims and by confirming the benefits he has found from using it as an aid to post-flight recovery . ’ |
| 5 | The principal method is the study of hoards , since coins have frequently been deposited in hoards for safe-keeping and their owners have often been prevented from recovering them for a variety of reasons such as death or forgetfulness . |
| 6 | Anything to divert his attention , to prevent him from labelling her with the cruel names she 'd last heard on Marcus 's tongue . |
| 7 | The actual work can be a bit fiddly — sometimes an arrangement just wo n't go right and I have to restrain myself from hurling it across the room . |
| 8 | She left the kitchen to dress while they lamented their miserable exis-tences , and more often than not , she came back from driving them to the bus stop to throw their breakfasts in the garbage . |
| 9 | A DUBLIN-BASED policeman has won a legal battle to prevent the Garda Commissioner from dismissing him from the force for allegedly offering a prostitute IR£30 for sex . |
| 10 | Much of the resistance to the dependence thesis comes from confusing it with a claim about what authorities do in fact , or with the view that requires authorities to act only in the interests of their subjects . |
| 11 | Again , apart from alerting you to the likely development of a problem here , such inspections will help to ensure that even with a painful condition , the dog will have sufficient confidence to allow you to treat it without attempting to snap or simply pulling its head away repeatedly . |
| 12 | She finished breathlessly , and Greg refrained from enlightening her on the history of New Zealand . |
| 13 | If this is proved , the court makes a preliminary order , called a ‘ receiving order ’ , which protects the debtor 's property and prevents creditors from suing him without the leave of the court . |
| 14 | Sondra Locke never would have made a Forces ' pin-up but that did n't deter Clint Eastwood from turning her into a star with lotsa spunk — and they were off-screen lovers — although he could have had his pick of ‘ beautiful broads ’ . |
| 15 | He had been ‘ much pleased ’ with the suggestion , ‘ but was deterr 'd from improving it by the greatness of the subject … |
| 16 | He will get a hernia from supporting me in a variety of undignified positions and I shall finally insist on delivering under water so that the midwife puts her back out and gets wet . |
| 17 | if they come for a win , itll be a win gained from getting us on the break . |
| 18 | Apart from providing her with an excuse to respond to his card , the idea in itself was a perfectly good one . |
| 19 | From greeting her with a kiss at breakfast , throughout the morning , and up to ten minutes ago when , at the lunch table , he had covered her hand with his , gazed into her eyes and called her meu amor , he had been playing the adoring fiancé to perfection . |
| 20 | The ‘ Yes to All ’ button stops Windows from asking you about every file . |
| 21 | How did the company benefit from having me on the staff ? |
| 22 | Apart from joining us for the evening meal and when she ran short of pesetas , we saw little of her for the rest of the holiday . |
| 23 | And who benefits from treating it as an ‘ I win , you lose ’ tussle ? |
| 24 | The name reminded me of that , but the peculiar detachment of shock prevented the reminder from disturbing me in the slightest . |
| 25 | Rain had no clear idea what to do with her , apart from taking her to the Villa Fiesole , and she was already seeing the warped logic of Edouard 's argument : Barbara Coleman might be safer where she was . |
| 26 | The court 's hearings were in private , but the judgment revealed that the Attorney General , Harold Whelehan , had obtained a temporary injunction on Feb. 7 preventing the parents of the girl from taking her to the UK for an operation . |
| 27 | But these considerations did not stop Ortho-Cilag , the manufacturer of another anti-arthritic drug , Zomax , from taking it off the market last week after only five reported deaths in US and three in the UK . |
| 28 | All aircraft and ships are banned from carrying it into the Philippines , and the Filipino Consul in Hawaii has to give the go-ahead for any flight containing Mr Marcos 's remains before it is allowed to take off . |
| 29 | The owner of a firearm is none the less owner because the law prohibits him from discharging it in a public highway ; the owner of a field does not cease to be owner because the public or a neighbour has the right to use a footpath across it . |
| 30 | ( 2 ) A licence must be refused if the body providing the canteen fails to undertake to make rules in terms of a draft approved by the board , and to refrain from altering them without the consent of the board . |