Example sentences of "was [v-ing] them from " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt as though she was seeing them from under a great weight . |
| 2 | As they returned to Swinbrook on Grye , the gipsy horse , the trees of Wychwood closed in about them and Carrie imagined the sadly diminished yet still proud forest was protecting them from the rest of the world . |
| 3 | On the one hand papal taxation was preserving them from Edward 's attentions , except for customary feudal dues and prerogative levies ; it is safe to assume that the laity were adapting readily to the notion of leaving the tax burden , or as much of it as they could , to the clergy . |
| 4 | The man was watching them from a bedroom window , the bat visible . |
| 5 | Someone was watching them from the top of the stairs . |
| 6 | There was nothing new in it to be discovered , and it was preventing them from making new discoveries elsewhere . |
| 7 | As a result of complaints by a group of students that Ebussu'ud Efendi 's colleague , Civizade , the Anadolu kazasker , was preventing them from becoming mulazims , Sultan Suleyman charged Ebussu'ud Efendi with looking into the matter . |
| 8 | On April 15 a group of doctors threatened to strike against the curfew , which they alleged was preventing them from attending patients . |