Example sentences of "from [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kenny Doyle , the twenty-eight-year-old barman at the Rollercoaster , knew her real age but that had never stopped him from serving her a drink . |
| 2 | She was so wrapped up in the portrait that she heard nothing until the clink of glass told her she was not alone , and as she spun round she found Alain turning from pouring himself a drink . |
| 3 | Far from calling himself a god he admits his own inadequacies — he can not rebuild the dome , he can not claim to have fed on honey-dew and drunk the Milk of paradise . |
| 4 | Whether Boswell means this sincerely , or as sleight-of-hand to deflect people from calling him a mere snob , must be measured against the remarkable and immortal results of his association with the one man who allowed him to share his company relentlessly . |
| 5 | So move from buying it every d every weekday say to moving it f to buying it four days a week . |
| 6 | The teacher 's role is to help students to progress from considering what the characters do to working out what they need to say in order to achieve the same result in similar circumstances . |
| 7 | However , it is a big jump from saying what a system can do in the absence of the visual cortex to describing its functions in the normal , intact brain . |
| 8 | calm them down ; — prevent them from doing themselves an injury ; — do n't leave them alone ; — if they do n't calm down , call an ambulance or doctor ( dial 999 ) . |
| 9 | A clip round the ear has more chance of preventing him from doing something a second time than bringing all these other agencies in . |
| 10 | I begin to pronounce the sequence of words and numbers that will prevent her from giving him a piece of her mind . |
| 11 | That did n't stop the enthusiastic chaps from giving them a sneak preview of three tracks hot off the tapes , so to speak . |
| 12 | A useful way of keeping candidates to the order which suits you , apart from giving them an idea of the sequence of questioning at the top of the interview , is to preface each group of questions with an explanatory sentence or two . |
| 13 | Now she began to wonder about that ; it could n't simply be because she 'd disliked him , since she 'd disliked clients before , but that had n't prevented her from giving them the same professional treatment she gave to everyone . |
| 14 | Madam Deputy Speaker I was gon na give a very illustrative example of what I 'm talking about but perhaps I will allow the house to have that example on another occasion because I actually would prefer not to be er er er prevented from giving you the most vivid story of what I 'm talking about . |
| 15 | Lack of imagination may also prevent one partner from recognizing what the other is coping with . |
| 16 | But your readers will still get some satisfaction in the end from hearing what the detective deduced from something that was put before their own eyes and which they passed over . |
| 17 | Erm I think Neil might benefit from knowing what the intro leaflet is . |
| 18 | The Tories , and their ruling-class supporters , wish to keep the ordinary worker from knowing what the substance of this social chapter is , how it really just gives more backing to much of what they have already gained through industrial struggles for nearly 200 years , and the extension of these rights to every worker , especially the more isolated ones . |
| 19 | Jefferson 's purpose in the First Amendment was to stop all future American lawmakers from making it a crime for people to criticise their own government . |
| 20 | He had a peculiar habit of sliding effortlessly from throwing me a bait to hitting me over the head with it . |
| 21 | Political analysts said Tuesday 's outspoken comments by Mr Chirac — like Mr Giscard d'Estaing a candidate for the presidency — seemed to be a tactic to dissuade Mr Mitterrand from offering him the premiership rather than an attempt to force the president out immediately . |