Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [noun prp] from " in BNC.

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1 Hayes may have been protecting Minton from hurt , but Bratby saw in his action the kind of censorship that accompanied then anything to do with homosexuality .
2 ‘ You are up early , Dr Neil , and are keeping McAllister from her work . ’
3 This is the last half hour of legal drinking time , and staff are pulling Guinness from every tap .
4 He says they are moving Steiner from the Tower of London to a place called St Mary 's Priory . ’
5 During those talks , Mr Shevardnadze said all military aid to Nicaragua has been frozen since the beginning of the year , but that weapons may still be reaching Nicaragua from Cuba .
6 RISC-based peripherals reseller Parity Systems Inc , Sunnyvale , California , will be distributing Sparc-a-likes from both Axil Workstations Inc , the San Jose , California-based Hyundai Electronics Co offshoot , and from the parent 's Workstation Division .
7 Angela Cunningham , Project Officer for Southern Africa , and Gillian Peace , Assistant Project Officer for Southern Africa , will be visiting Mozambique from April 19 to 25 to attend a meeting of the Council of Churches of Mozambique ( CCM ) .
8 Not that Harry has a penny to his name , but thankfully one thing we 're not short of in this family is money , and if that 's what is keeping Harry from showing his hand , then you 've no worries on that score .
9 The Kingfisher group , whose name was changed from Woolworths earlier this year , includes about 720 high street shops under the Woolworths name , electrical retailer Comet with 307 outlets , Britain 's leading DIY group , B&Q , and Superdrug , the high street chain which last week announced that it is buying Medicare from the Gateway supermarket chain 's new owners Isosceles .
10 The new man at the top is Robert Louis-Dreyfus , a Frenchman , who is joining Saatchi from IMS , the market research group with Charles Scott , an existing colleague , as finance director .
11 KIWI centre Kevin Iro , who is joining Leeds from Manly , did n't do the business in Sydney this year , but the former Wigan ace can probably do a good job against English defences .
12 Strangely , it also sliced through the air of unreality which had been preventing Vologsky from facing the real issues .
13 Darren started going to a special school , but in ‘ 84 my drinking did start getting out of hand and I was pushing Darren from pillar to post .
14 Itzhak Shamir , the Prime Minister and Likud leader , announced at the end of a Cabinet meeting on Dec. 31 that he was dismissing Weizmann from the Cabinet , claiming that Weizmann had maintained contacts with the PLO over a period of time .
15 He did give a little shove to a defender who was shielding Wallace from the ball as it was running thru to Coton , but Coton could nt hold it anyway so IMO it did nt affect the ‘ goal ’ .
16 A meeting between him and Louis XIV was not a great success , but the young man made a generally good impression and though they had missed the ideal moment , when Prince Charles was threatening London from Derby , the French do seem to have been in earnest , as a letter to Prince Charles from the French Minister of Marine , the Comte de Maurepas , dated December 1745 , confirms :
17 The Colonel could tell that the noise was distracting Amanda from her pamphlet , though she gave no outward sign .
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