Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] from [noun sg] [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 | Change them from fund to fund . |
| 3 | Change them from fund to fund , mm . |
| 4 | Diarrhoea which drives them from bed in the morning , worse ( < ) at 5 am . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He rushed forward to the battery box , loosened the terminal caps and moved them from side to side . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | No , you I used to know her from church in Oxford , before she moved down here . |
| 12 | His Anglican faith was visible rather than assiduous ; he apologises in his diaries for his work keeping him from church on Sundays . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ He told me he wrote it to distract him from pain in his last days . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | nodding his head , bobbing it from side to side , achingly conscious of how stupid he must look , " Yup , looks like wine to me . " |
| 19 | ’ 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 . |
| 20 | To learn to juggle , take one ball and practise tossing it from hand to hand in an easy arc . |
| 21 | It is a strange sensation , but many sense it from time to time : a consuming desire to part with money . |
| 22 | Predictably , there have been numerous success stories often involving mature women whose domestic commitments had prevented them from returning to employment , who had lost confidence in themselves or , if they were working , had little or no recognition for their linguistic and human management skills . |
| 23 | He says why spend millions pushing them from place to place ? |
| 24 | So they 'll give them from table to table . |
| 25 | The miners in the colliery retreated before the flood of dark brown slurry which was advancing through the underground roads and filling them from floor to roof . |
| 26 | Any defilement disqualified them from contact with the holy things . |
| 27 | In 1978 fog at Heathrow airport prevented me from flying to referee the first ever game between France and Russia , and in 1981 a leg injury picked up in the First Test prevented me refereeing the Second Test between France and New Zealand . |
| 28 | ‘ Once they jam in the needles , it distances you from thinking of smoking . ’ |
| 29 | Thus if you are Jewish and working class , your Jewishness is used to disqualify you from membership of labour organizations ; but equally if you are Jewish and poor , your poverty is made to signify the essentially parasitic nature of your ‘ race ’ on the host community . |
| 30 | Nobody knows who you are on Remembering Night because you wear black clothes that cover you from head to foot , and there is no name of your name-animal . |