Example sentences of "[vb -s] them [adv prt] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now — ’ she made a typical high-jumpers ' gesture , that which marks them out from all other athletes , raising her arms and stretching her torso , as if taking off to challenge that dappled crossbar . |
| 2 | Above all , however accurate such weapons may turn out to be in practice , their yield in terms of blast and fall-out clearly marks them out from ‘ conventional ’ weapons and necessarily entails indiscriminate effects . |
| 3 | When it is obvious that the other 11 Governments are prepared to accept the draft before them at Maastricht today and that this Government are not , the Government are confessing to a unique combination of political prejudice and economic weakness which marks them out from the rest of the Community and which marks Britain down in the Community . |
| 4 | The extent , however , to which that marks them off from what are typically thought of as more ‘ objective ’ features of the world in which we live depends on how far one thinks that has a character independent of any form of sentient experience . |
| 5 | segregation of the elderly in bungalows … and flats … cuts them off from neighbours other than people of their own age and accentuated their isolation . |
| 6 | The denial of tenderness cuts them off from communication with wives and children . |
| 7 | A car picks them up from wherever they 're staying and there 's usually a phone , so they can ring us up if they get stuck in traffic jams , or if there is a last-minute change of plan . |
| 8 | Oh right he picks them up from school |