Example sentences of "be [v-ing] something from " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It seems to me that both you and Peter could have done with the friendly shoulder of a mother to pour out your troubles to — you 're reliving something from your past . |
| 2 | So because we 're doing something from our normal end of the spectrum as it were right through to trying to involve everybody in the city , erm we 're hoping to get the issue across to a lot more people , and also raise money while we 're doing it . |
| 3 | I , I even everybo cos she even , she says , oh I know you 're hiding something from me ! |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm expecting something from an old friend and I just remembered he only has this address for me . ’ |
| 5 | He stared at me a moment , as though he suspected I might be hiding something from him . |
| 6 | What gave me a thrill — why , outside the low door , two men were unloading something from a cart ; it was the carcass of a bear ! |
| 7 | He felt precisely as if he were hiding something from her . |
| 8 | Maybe the Russians were screening something from him ; he could only presume that they were . |
| 9 | I think any student going through higher education is getting something from it if they come in as some measure sceptical , in some measure critical , that they 're not prepared to take things at face value . |
| 10 | She was asking something from him , this stranger whose job was to shoot the IRA assassins if they came . |
| 11 | He was constructing something from a foil ash tray when she approached . |
| 12 | It was there a bit because I was hiding something from my mother . |
| 13 | She knew he was hiding something from her about the cat , something nasty , that should not be spoken of , she was sure . |