Example sentences of "from [pron] by [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't try distancing yourself from me by calling me Mr Calder . |
| 2 | But there is no word that Saddam Hussein is ready to return to his own people the $10 billion he is accused of looting from them by skimming Iraq 's oil revenue for the past ten years and taking kickbacks from foreign contractors . |
| 3 | They lead privileged lives in official residences , are driven everywhere in official cars , buy from special shops and , it is said , have unpleasant facts screened from them by fawning officials . |
| 4 | From himself by spitting or masturbation Atum produced two children , male and female , Shu ( air ) and Tefnut ( moisture ) . |
| 5 | And , after having raised the subject , he was now trying to shift the emphasis away from himself by suggesting that Merrill had behaved in an unnecessarily mysterious fashion . |
| 6 | Over a cu , over a cup of tea , I could get a lot of information from you by saying |
| 7 | In a similar position would be a street trader , who regularly deals with a certain wholesaler and who could only gain credit from him by guaranteeing to purchase his goods . |
| 8 | This , together with his proposed union treaty , which opponents saw as a breakup of the Soviet Union , drove conservatives to try to take over control from him by declaring a state of emergency — in effect , a coup d'état . |
| 9 | ‘ I wish we could stay , Aunt , ’ Naylor replied charmingly , and took her mind away from him by asking , ‘ Did Travis come home last night ? ’ |
| 10 | Claudia moved briskly away from him by dodging a small girl who was eating an ice-cream . |
| 11 | I seem to remember he got away from her by locking himself in his flat with friends for the weekend and they had a jolly good party . |
| 12 | She accused the widow of stealing her husband 's love away from her by dosing the milk of the dead cow and giving it to him to drink . |
| 13 | of course some companies do this and one or two manage to benefit from it by sending out a different type ) f product from their range each year . |
| 14 | If you deviate from it , and it 's terribly easy to deviate from it by rejecting certain thoughts , oh that 's silly , that 's not relevant , that 's too obvious , that 's objectionable , erm , that 's too Freudian , you know , if you say that kind of thing to yourself you get nowhere . |
| 15 | It seems too that analogizing is so deeply involved not only in thinking but in perception that there is no hope of escaping from it by isolating pure observations from which induction can start . |
| 16 | Organising big gigs like Loch Lomond and Murrayfield would add more worries to the existing day to day running of a band , but Marlene takes it all in her stride and escapes from it by going to Skye where she ‘ gets away from the phones ! ’ |
| 17 | We would take some convincing that it can be right to depart from it by punishing more harshly than an offender ‘ deserves ’ on a standard tariff , for example by sentencing an offender to an exceptionally long custodial sentence for purposes of reform or incapacitation . |
| 18 | A further paternalistic argument is that a law restricting consent helps to protect individual citizens from themselves by counteracting some of the social pressures and shame which might otherwise occur . |
| 19 | So a stallion may respond to punishment from us by trying to kick us with greater determination instead . |