Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] from [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The site is under military guard , ostensibly to protect it from attack by anti-government rebels of the New People 's Army . |
| 7 | Well I always like to read it from left to right but it does n't matter really . |
| 8 | Also his head still pains him from time to time where he got that knock . |
| 9 | We must protect children from abuse of this type but we must also protect them from abuse by the system . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |