Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] from the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the snow comes , this will insulate them from the cold air and allow them to tease out woodlice , spiders and other invertebrates from leaf-litter or plant roots . |
| 2 | This attribute separates them from the outside world and can be shared by no non-Japanese . |
| 3 | Presently it led them from the main highway to minor roads and country lanes . |
| 4 | This recommendation was not accepted , however , and the authorities still have to balance the need to provide access to the parks with the need to preserve them from the increased pressure that results . |
| 5 | you probably got them from the same place . |
| 6 | Within months , some clients had in excess of 25 dealers contacting them from the same firm ; many were also being contacted from other licensed dealers . |
| 7 | Huge golden canopies shielded them from the 100-degree heat . |
| 8 | Thomas was sure the other androids would have rescued her from the burning ship but , discovering she was not part of their mission , would then have executed her . |
| 9 | The Blox had run the whisker pole to maximum height on its track , suspended it from the main halyard , and were swinging on it from the pulpit far out over the harbour and letting go . |
| 10 | Fit a suitable damp-proof membrane around the frame to isolate it from the surrounding masonry , then fit the frame in the opening . |
| 11 | May they preserve us from the hermetic seal . |
| 12 | This may also mean protecting us from the seamier side of Chinese life . |
| 13 | There were many amusing things that happened on the way out , to distract us from the utter boredom of slogging through the Med and down the Red Sea . |
| 14 | As a general approach , this presents a very attractive picture of human beings , but we must not , on the other hand , allow this to distract us from the pressing reality of society as an institutionalised , patterned , constraining system . |
| 15 | Our footsteps echoed as though there were other people walking to meet us from the far end . |
| 16 | Only a mass revolt by AFBD members — which is unlikely - or legal action by particularly aggrieved firms , for example the Commodity Trad ers ' Group , can prevent the great majority of those firms which wish to continue doing business with Americans from signing the commission 's order exempting them from the full rigour of its rules . |
| 17 | picking them from the muddy ground beneath tall trees . |
| 18 | Does she agree that haemophiliacs and others who are given contaminated blood transfusions receive them from the national health service ? |
| 19 | For his part , Mr Gaunt claims that 38 of the 50 members who have signed the exemption order saving them from the full rigour of the CFTC 's rules say they do not like the agreement . |
| 20 | It was Karl Franz who led the charge of the Reiksguard at the battle of Norduin against the Bretonnians , where the Emperor 's personal valour finally broke the resistance of the Bretonnian flank guard and drove them from the narrow defile which they had defiantly held throughout the battle . |
| 21 | Resting gratefully on his pitchfork as they waited for a slow-moving loaded wagon to reach them from the far end of the field , Seb said , ‘ There 'll be another hundred acres to work by the spring . |
| 22 | No , what I am looking at are the first direct signals to reach me from the dark constellation of Serafin . |
| 23 | DINAMO Tbilisi , as expected , have lodged their appeal against UEFA 's decision to disqualify them from the European Cup ( writes Lyle Jackson ) . |
| 24 | Linda recognised her from the previous day at school . |
| 25 | She remembered mother 's compassion in saving her from the certain shock of such evil envelopes . |
| 26 | If Marc was the ogre guarding the crock of gold , then Peter had to be cast as the white knight , saving her from the dreaded dragon ! |
| 27 | Dreamer came up to Tallis and tugged and twisted her from the frozen ground . |
| 28 | Strong hands lifted her from the rocking horse , and sat her on the table . |
| 29 | She told me just to feed him from the other side , so I did , fully expecting my right breast to explode , but it did n't ! |
| 30 | situation I 'd suspect will be addressed within that other part , I did mention in my presentation that there are a number of inter-related problems here , I can trace about four or five , all of which have a chain reaction one upon the other , unfortunately Brandon is up front so we 've got to tackle it from the other direction . |