Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] from [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Fortunately , many of them know that their relatives and friends will be calling in to see them from time to time ; but ‘ from time to time ’ does not take care of those long days and nights in between , when , apart from their often desperate need for company , they feel frighteningly cut off from the world of people who would come to their aid at once if they fell ill , if only they had the means of contacting them .
2 And if I handle all with my own hands , and keep the prince clear of it — though he knows my mind , and it is his mind , too — I do so to preserve him from harassment by those who will hear of nothing less than Owen 's head on London Bridge .
3 He is a born teacher , who always keeps his pupil in mind , gently leads him from point to point and is always ready to anticipate his next question or objection .
4 Thus , concentrations of zinc and copper may not correlate with concentrations of protons because the pH could have two opposing effects — it could facilitate the transfer of zinc and copper into gastric juice at a high pH but then only release them from mucus at low pH .
5 Our care and supervision does not absolve you from responsibility for rigging and inspecting the equipment you use , and controlling your risk of accident or injury while using it .
6 Lazarus 's business ambitions soon elevated him from storeman to lumber merchant , thence to a partnership in the coal industry which became his sole business — L. Cohen and Son — after a few years , and hence to a high-profile dredging company which could boast that it had kept every one of the lifelines of the young nation — the St. Lawrence tributaries between Lake Ontario and Quebec — open .
7 INTREPID Peter Bottomley , former scourge of the dozy British motorist , has not abandoned his life 's work just because Her Indoors shunted him from Transport to Northern Ireland .
8 Preference rules may be broken ; in fact it would be very difficult not to break them from time to time as some of them conflict .
9 The site is under military guard , ostensibly to protect it from attack by anti-government rebels of the New People 's Army .
10 Well I always like to read it from left to right but it does n't matter really .
11 Also his head still pains him from time to time where he got that knock .
12 We must protect children from abuse of this type but we must also protect them from abuse by the system .
13 His father 's response was not only to stop sending him money but also to bar him from returning to Zimbala until he renounced his Socialist beliefs .
14 This is even more of a problem : it will not only damage the perspective of the learner but it will also effectively bar him from experience of the full language , since the native users will be unwilling to use it in his presence .
15 A Dutch holding company is not taxed on disposals of its subsidiaries , and the Dutch treaty network often protects it from tax on the disposal in the subsidiary 's country .
16 An extreme and exceptional case is the small community outside the fort of Phasis in the province of Cappadocia , which was fortified by the governor solely to protect it from assault by invading Alans in the mid second century .
17 The disability did n't prevent him from farming in Tanzania and going on to hold several posts in the Tanzanian Cabinet .
18 Rossendale Group 's chairperson Kate Conbay-Greenwood said she ‘ realised that this would not be the easiest area of Amnesty 's work to publicise , but that should n't deter us from truing to raise awareness ( of Jehovah 's Witnesses in Greece ) . ’
19 Now , after a month of nervously transferring it from place to place as the situation worsened , the French government were giving it to the British .
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