Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] i from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ward was due to take over the driving and at the end of it I slumped into the seat beside him in a happy daze which insulated me from all sense of reality . |
| 2 | There was something wrong with my mouth , which stopped me from talking properly . |
| 3 | I remember , after one lesson , having a sensation of a collar being around my neck which prevented me from turning my head ( similar to the kind people have to wear after painful neck injuries ) . |
| 4 | Was n't it plain , common or garden cowardice , not the sturdy self-righteousness I 'd credited myself with , which prevented me from ending the whole business ? |
| 5 | 'T WAS that , mama reckoned , which preserved me from the pestilence ! ’ |
| 6 | Or should I perhaps sit down in Salzburg with the empty hope of some better fortune , let Wolfgang grow up , and allow myself and my children to be made fools of until I reach the age which prevents me from travelling and until he attains the age and physical appearance which no longer attract admiration for his merits ? |
| 7 | ‘ I know full well that , frankly speaking , prostitutes are bad , but I feel something human in them which prevents me from feeling the slightest scruple about associating with them … . |
| 8 | What she wo n't want to hear is that I am cured of the madness which kept me from sleeping at night and the imagination which played havoc with my peace of mind during the day . |
| 9 | There were three factors which saved me from becoming anorexic at this dangerous juncture . |
| 10 | Somebody jumped me from behind and knocked me out . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ All I did was come out for a walk before going to bed , and I was about by that place where the bank 's caved in , when somebody jumped me from behind . |
| 12 | It had taken two of them to free me from the current and I was so relieved . |
| 13 | I want you to drive me from King 's Cross down to the cottage , right ? |
| 14 | In fact it was you I think who stopped me from pulling it up , I bought it as a , a stick from Bromley , in Bromley |
| 15 | ‘ How dare you prevent me from making myself really sick , Matthew ? ’ he taunted . |
| 16 | ‘ WAS IT ONE OF THEM IN-DEPTH things you have to really think about ? ’ asked the cabbie who drove me from A Hard Heart . |
| 17 | ‘ Do you remember me from the City of the Horizon ? ’ |
| 18 | From the age of about three , at bedtime story-time , Shanti would often ask , ‘ Tell me about when you fetched me from London . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ She telephoned me from a public call-box somewhere . |
| 20 | Those of you who know me from my earlier scribblings in PFK will be well aware of my feelings in relation to our responsibilities to do our best to maintain and care for the delicate marine creatures we take from the wild . |
| 21 | ‘ She is a dragon , ’ said Dinah , ‘ but she keeps me from annoyance , and Papa had the room designed so that no one could get straight in . ’ |
| 22 | You were the one who followed me from the ferry ! ’ |
| 23 | It was the same man who followed me from the doctor 's surgery . |
| 24 | Looking from one to the other , she asked slowly , ‘ You followed me from the ferry ? ’ |
| 25 | She watched me from behind her long old-fashioned mask . |
| 26 | As she covered me from toe to head in the brown muck I thought of Julien Sorel in The Red and the Black , dissimulating and silent for the sake of ambition , his pride often shattered , but beneath it all solid in his superiority . |
| 27 | She was very calm when she rang me from the hospital asking for her mourning clothes . |
| 28 | I knew nothing about this convicting work of the Spirit in her , until a week later when she rang me from Halifax and asked , ‘ Does God really harden people 's hearts ? ’ |
| 29 | As one person put it , ‘ The only ones who knew me from the time I was born have gone , and it 's almost as if that period in my life is less real now that there is no one left alive who shared it with me . ’ |
| 30 | That way you can tell yourself you took me from another man . ’ |