Example sentences of "they [to-vb] [pron] from " in BNC.

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1 His plan for Bearwood ( Fig. 21 ) , executed in 1865–74 for John Walter , chief proprietor of The Times , and included in The Gentleman 's House , is an expression of what Mark Girouard describes as the Victorian ‘ genius for analysis and definition ’ , a genius which led them to classify everything from insects through households to societies .
2 er and therefore for that very reason do not like to see the Government going in for a whole series of embarrassing defeats er and erm getting into very grave difficulties with an important Bill and I therefore arise only to ask my Noble Friend er at the last minute would like to consider very seriously erm a conciliatory reply of whether accepting er the amendments with er or er or some of them er with er er er view to their reconsideration or asking those who propose them to defer them from to from today 's sitting , there 's still further sittings ahead , but whether he was prepared to ask them to give him a chance to reflect without incurring serious Government defeats to reflect further on whether further amendments can not and should not be made .
3 The severe psychological damage inflicted upon the captive Biros led them to tear themselves from their shackles and plunge into toilet bowls , become suicidally entangled about gear sticks or wrap themselves around handlebars .
4 It had taken two of them to free me from the current and I was so relieved .
5 Pupils need to be able to respond to such forms , and schools have an obligation to help them to read everything from labels and slogans to the subject textbooks of the secondary school curriculum .
6 only two matches left of rugby union 's league season and Gloucester need to win at least one of them to save themselves from relegation … on saturday they went down to Orrell at Kingsholm … the score 8-13
7 Helen poured coffee but left them to take it from the tray .
8 Now say that the applications are completely processor-independent too — that you do n't even have to re-compile them to move them from one machine type to another , and indeed bits of them may even wander from processor type to processor type in the course of execution .
9 Now say that the applications are completely processor-independent too — that you do n't even have to re-compile them to move them from one machine type to another , and indeed bits of them may even wander from processor type to processor type in the course of execution .
10 She was already within arm 's length , only the door standing between them to prevent him from reaching her , and she clearly suspected nothing because she was moving in and as her hand passed close to the glass , he could see it in vivid pastel detail .
11 An example of her power : scared as he was , the boy Nikolai had managed to hold out against telling them of her destination until it was too late for them to prevent her from reaching it .
12 Many Heads have expressed to me their appreciation of what the lu Labour Group has done for them to rescue them from the plight that the Tories imposed on them .
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