Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately , many of them know that their relatives and friends will be calling in to see them from time to time ; but ‘ from time to time ’ does not take care of those long days and nights in between , when , apart from their often desperate need for company , they feel frighteningly cut off from the world of people who would come to their aid at once if they fell ill , if only they had the means of contacting them . |
| 2 | Grammar schools already had adequate facilities or could build them from scratch . |
| 3 | Women are being asked detailed questions about their child-care arrangements , and failure to produce satisfactory answers may disqualify them from benefit . |
| 4 | And er in the apprentice we used to have to go round the shops on the town matching their er material in velvets and ribbons and satin for making their hats of , as well as the straw we made them from material as well . |
| 5 | Robert Dalrymple says its relationships with most of its tenants are excellent but no one can deliver them from recession . |
| 6 | Change them from fund to fund . |
| 7 | Change them from fund to fund , mm . |
| 8 | The lesson of that election was that only an alliance of all those who stood to the right of the Socialists could succeed in easing them from power . |
| 9 | Diarrhoea which drives them from bed in the morning , worse ( < ) at 5 am . |
| 10 | There are a number of characteristics in these types of market that distinguish them from consumer markets . |
| 11 | Harold Wilson did consult me from time to time , in the sense of asking me to ascertain from the Biafrans what their attitude would be towards a visit by him and matters of that sort , but my interventions were of a pretty futile nature and achieved no results . |
| 12 | Clement wrote a pamphlet giving his reasons for the split and accusing Wilson of mismanagement , irresponsible militancy and the encouragement of foreign seamen into Britain , presumably because of his refusal to accept a rule which would debar them from membership . |
| 13 | Treat florist gloxinias as annuals and grow them from seed in spring , or grow from tubers potted up in spring so they are just covered by the compost . |
| 14 | Anxiety for example , is something that human beings will always experience , and to think that you can free them from anxiety in some future utopia , or go back to some ordered erm , ideal state in the past , where everyone was so secure , that they would never feel anxiety , is just a myth according to Freud . |
| 15 | For mums it was the era of the cheap washing machine that would free them from drudgery . |
| 16 | He rushed forward to the battery box , loosened the terminal caps and moved them from side to side . |
| 17 | The shriek that jerked me from sleep sounded like Lehrathghan harpy-bat . |
| 18 | Just one goal in their favour is keeping them from relegation . |
| 19 | Prisoners may be left locked in their cells for longer , because there is not the staff to supervise out-of-cell activities or to escort them from place to place . |
| 20 | And there , ranged against them too were institutions like the American Negro Academy , formed in 1897 , whose male founders ( Black , lest we forget ) , decided that Black women were not competent for such an intellectual atmosphere , and excluded them from membership . |
| 21 | Gerald has rung me from East Sheen . |
| 22 | We can recommend Turner Engineering on 0342 834713 who supply them from stock or try the advertisers in LRO yellow pages . |
| 23 | He began to note down suitable thoughts and epigrams on pieces of office copy-paper , not really with the intention of learning them off by heart , but with the idea that he might put them in his jacket pocket and touch them from time to time during the programme to give himself reassurance , knowing that if the worst really came to the worst he could take them out and refresh his memory . |
| 24 | Until 1925 it had been possible for Communists to be represented in all sections of the Labour Party but at the liverpool Conference it was decided to exclude them from membership . |
| 25 | It was also a pleasant parish , and the vicar 's wife was very kind to Anna and shielded her from exploitation . |
| 26 | But instead of protecting her from attack , this mask forced the gas at her , rushing it up into her face with a sinister hissing . |
| 27 | No , you I used to know her from church in Oxford , before she moved down here . |
| 28 | The plea or defence to this was that the notes were made jointly and severally by the defendant 's father , John Revill , and by Samuel Revill , as well as by the defendant , and that before the action the plaintiff , without the defendant 's knowledge or consent , struck out the name of Samuel Revill on the notes and wholly discharged him from liability . |
| 29 | She waited for morning , the words playing through her mind and keeping her from sleep . |
| 30 | No , it was not discomfort keeping her from sleep . |