Example sentences of "[pron] from the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I firmly believe that if we study animals as animals including their struggles with their internal and external environments , we can liberate them and ourselves from the obfuscation of terms such as pain and turn instead to definable values . |
| 2 | Unable to free himself from the tangle of ropes and floats , Miles swam laboriously across to his daughter . |
| 3 | Irish Tom detached himself from the group of workmen and swaggered , grinning , along the corridor . |
| 4 | The lower tier would be known as the Board for Local Authority Higher Education , its membership consisting of Christopher Ball as Chairman ; six representatives of local authorities ; six from the DES ; six from institutions , made up of two from the Committee of Directors of Polytechnics , two from the National Association of Teachers of Further and Higher Education , one from the Association of Principals of Colleges , and one from the Standing Conference of Principals and Directors of Colleges and Institutes of Higher Education ; and three others , consisting of one from the Trades Union Congress , one from the Council of National Academic Awards , and one jointly from the Business and Technician Education Councils . |
| 5 | On many occasions Jesus has relieved the sufferings of others , curing them of their sickness , freeing them from the hold of spirits . |
| 6 | Whilst the evident unpopularity of Soviet domination in Eastern Europe may be thought to make such forces reliable in wartime for garrison and rear duties only , fact is that these military forces are trained and equipped for a war with NATO , according to an offensive doctrine of ‘ coalition warfare ’ , designed to place them from the start of hostilities onto an ‘ external front ’ . |
| 7 | Kypov had no roof , and the thought carried a first-found peace for Holly , lifted him from the line of men who straggled across the dirt-smeared floor boards . |
| 8 | At the market he started off down one of the narrow , clothes-thick alleyways , but we pulled him back and shielded him from the warren of stalls . |
| 9 | Reaching across , he slammed the door again , then glared at her from the space of inches . |
| 10 | When women write about misogyny , they do it from the standpoint of victims . |
| 11 | Resolution 44/29 of Dec. 4 , adopted without a vote , recognized that the " effectiveness of the struggle against terrorism could be enhanced by the establishment of a generally agreed definition of international terrorism " so as to differentiate it from the struggle of peoples for national liberation . |
| 12 | Neutral , euphemistic , alliterative , you distanced yourself from the idea of neighbours killing each other . |
| 13 | The United Stales of America — who had excluded themselves from the League of Nations — did nothing about the matter . |
| 14 | They had detached themselves from the torrent of peoples that in prehistory had poured out of China onto the countless islands of the Pacific and , settling the eastern coastal strip of the Indochina peninsula , they had named their country Nam Viet — Land of the Southern Viet People . |