Example sentences of "[vb past] me from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ward was due to take over the driving and at the end of it I slumped into the seat beside him in a happy daze which insulated me from all sense of reality . |
| 2 | I said there were the that county record form and this man asked me from the museum that handled it if he could send them back to erm to Wiltshire . |
| 3 | ‘ Old Amos botched me when he made me from his seed . |
| 4 | The shriek that jerked me from sleep sounded like Lehrathghan harpy-bat . |
| 5 | His manager Alan McColm said : ‘ Martin phoned me from the airport to say what had happened and he was furious . |
| 6 | They phoned me from Mencap again this morning to see if I had any , had any lifting experience |
| 7 | A colleague from Christian Aid phoned me from Addis Ababa last night and he reported what had happened in the Red Sea port of Assab on Saturday which was when 15 trucks and trailers were loaded each with 22 tons of U N grain and there was a little ceremony as they left at 12 noon for Desai . |
| 8 | Still , that discovery never stopped me from making another collection of the glistening best ones that same night . |
| 9 | For 11 years they stopped me from coming back here . |
| 10 | There was something wrong with my mouth , which stopped me from talking properly . |
| 11 | I wish I had saved the hedgehog now , and not stood aside , and I have been wondering what stopped me from performing a natural act of sentimental kindness . |
| 12 | As Reid led the patient with the bloody head indoors , the white man turned to me , almost stopped me from going inside and said in an educated voice , ‘ Good morning , Doctor , and welcome to Koraloona . |
| 13 | Something happened that stopped me from going . |
| 14 | The same consideration stopped me from butting the animal ; I was n't going to put my face near those teeth . |
| 15 | In fact it was you I think who stopped me from pulling it up , I bought it as a , a stick from Bromley , in Bromley |
| 16 | Diarrhoea , which I had now had for five days , finally drove me from my bed at six-thirty . |
| 17 | ‘ … I became fretful , & timorous , & a tell-tale — & the School-boys drove me from play , & were always tormenting me — & hence I took no pleasure in boyish sports . ’ |
| 18 | I endeavoured to paint a picture of this scene , but again and again legions of midges drove me from the spot : I got a phial of essence supposed to keep them away , but alas ! in vain . |
| 19 | ‘ WAS IT ONE OF THEM IN-DEPTH things you have to really think about ? ’ asked the cabbie who drove me from A Hard Heart . |
| 20 | He signalled me from Pitt Street and I met him and he gave me the peg [ the notebook entry you both make ] . |
| 21 | My definition of harmful treatment would embrace not just treatment that exposed me to risk without any hope of compensating benefit but treatment of unproved efficacy that diverted me from having other treatments that were of proved value . |
| 22 | It was only a week later , with the district still in the iron grip of winter , that my bedside phone jangled me from slumber . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , facing Mrs Bottomley reduced me from passionate eloquence to an inarticulate oaf , and my opportunity was lost . |
| 24 | I thought them extraordinary Performances for a Girl of her Age , and one that had so little Advantage ( or rather none at all ) either from Books or Conversation : But my bad State of Health prevented me from making any further Enquiry concerning this young Genius , till about fourteen Months before her Death , when I was first inform 'd she had wrote a Tragedy . |
| 25 | I remember , after one lesson , having a sensation of a collar being around my neck which prevented me from turning my head ( similar to the kind people have to wear after painful neck injuries ) . |
| 26 | Before this experience , several barriers to worship were present that prevented me from entering fully into the presence of the Father and into the inheritance that Paul expresses so movingly in Ephesians 1 . |
| 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 | But , at that stage , the only thing that prevented me from saying , ‘ oh well , I 'll go and find a regular job instead , ’ was that I was aware that this thing existed — racialism — and that whatever happened , getting away from it , getting out of the firing line , would n't help me . |
| 29 | ‘ Poverty prevented me from thinking that all is well under the sun and in history , ’ he wrote in 1958 , the year after he received the Nobel Prize . |
| 30 | Was n't it plain , common or garden cowardice , not the sturdy self-righteousness I 'd credited myself with , which prevented me from ending the whole business ? |