Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] from [noun] [prep] " 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 | This simply means that instead of bending and scuffling around for saucepans stacked up in a dark base unit , try hanging them from hooks near the sink ( where you are going to fill them with water ) or near the stove . |
| 3 | Change them from fund to fund . |
| 4 | Change them from fund to fund , mm . |
| 5 | Diarrhoea which drives them from bed in the morning , worse ( < ) at 5 am . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If you want to try them , you can buy them from Clare for a small consideration which will be donated to charity . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He rushed forward to the battery box , loosened the terminal caps and moved them from side to side . |
| 11 | Her young are born in the nest and she leaves them there , protecting them from predators by blocking the hole with soil , which she packs down quite tightly . |
| 12 | Operators who have their tachograph charts analysed by an outside agency need to be careful about exactly what it is they are buying and whether it meets their requirements in protecting them from breaches of the law by their employees and agents . |
| 13 | Grab them from Halfords at around £6 each , available from selected stores nationwide . |
| 14 | Securing himself in the newly built citadel on a hill overlooking the Fatimid city , Salah al-Din also launched his army once more against the Crusaders driving them from Jerusalem in 1178 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | leather-covered armchair , the back of which is extended to form a hood over the occupant 's head , thus protecting him from draughts in the hallway of a mansion , where the chair would be situated . |
| 18 | No , you I used to know her from church in Oxford , before she moved down here . |
| 19 | His Anglican faith was visible rather than assiduous ; he apologises in his diaries for his work keeping him from church on Sundays . |
| 20 | He could do it all over again with striker Ken Charlery , who scored 26 goals last season after Turner snatched him from Maidstone for a give-away £20,000 . |
| 21 | He was heading straight into the wind and the force of it buffeted him from side to side until his sense of direction became totally confused . |
| 22 | ‘ He told me he wrote it to distract him from pain in his last days . |
| 23 | Billie lay there , imagining Adam with that smart-arse grin across his face , as he watched the girl abuse his body , lick it from toe to top . |
| 24 | Where a statutory authority is under a mandatory obligation to supply a service , whether with a saving or nuisance clause ( that nothing shall exonerate it from proceedings for nuisance ) or whether without such a clause , the authority is under no liability for anything expressly required by statute to be done , or reasonably incidental to that requirement , if it was done without negligence . |
| 25 | He took a chestnut from the pan and bounced it from hand to hand as he turned cheerily to enquire after Mrs Frere 's welfare . |
| 26 | The modernization of the Meadowell estate , which transformed it from flats to terraced houses and dramatically reduced the density of occupation , was a consequence of the availability of central government assistance intended to stimulate employment opportunities in the construction industry as a corrective to general problems of unemployment in the early 1970s . |
| 27 | We have not yet reached the point at which mere characterisation of a claim as a claim in public law is sufficient to exclude it from consideration by the ordinary courts : to permit this would be to create a dual system of law with the rigidity and procedural hardship for plaintiffs which it was the purpose of the recent reforms to remove : ’ Davy v. Spelthorne Borough Council [ 1984 ] A.C. 262 , 276 , per Lord Wilberforce . |
| 28 | nodding his head , bobbing it from side to side , achingly conscious of how stupid he must look , " Yup , looks like wine to me . " |
| 29 | The orchestra swarms over the first movement like killer bees , and the fierceness of the finale redeems it from suspicions of empty triumphalism . |
| 30 | ’ In the case of motor vehicles those purposes include , not merely the purpose of driving it from place to place but of doing so with the appropriate degree of comfort , ease of handling and pride in the vehicle 's outward and interior appearance . |