Example sentences of "them from the " in BNC.

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31 It is essential to provide shelter for horses to protect them from the extremes of heat , cold , wind , or rain .
32 As we saw earlier , the extreme emotions of the horse are quite clear as they involve the whole horse ; but the same emotions in a more moderate form , or of lesser intensity , like apprehension or annoyance , will reveal themselves differently in different horses ; and the horse owner really has to learn them from the movement , gestures , and noises that the horse makes , and the context in which they are made .
33 Positive and negative pressures applied to straight edged polygons and polyhedra convert them from the crystalline forms of rocks and earths to the positive and negative , male and female , expressions of life .
34 The shapes of the things we make are , as a general rule , imposed upon them from the outside : we do not make ‘ embryo ’ machines which acquire complex shapes by intrinsic processes .
35 The Cattle of the Cottagers are impounded when the Forest is driven by the Keepers , as all other Cattle are ; and when the Owners take them from the Pound ( paying the usual Fees to the Keepers ) they turn them again into the Forest , having no other Means of maintaining them … the Cottagers … are detrimental to the Forest , by cutting Wood for Fuel , and for building Huts , and making Fences to the Patches which they inclose from the Forest ; by keeping Pigs , Sheep etc. in the Forest all the Year ; and by stealing Timber .
36 Unable to get to our treasure , they were decimated by the rain of bolts our forebears showered down on them from the tower of this church .
37 The old woman settled back in her chair and shook her shoulders as if to free them from the burdens of the present .
38 Nobody knew where he got his candles from — they were n't allowed — probably nicked them from the church .
39 You buy them from the Nigel Press Associates of Edenbridge in Kent ; a print this size costs £60 .
40 Gloucester18 Bath27 BATH reached the final of the cup for the seventh time in nine years when they scored two tries in the last five minutes of extra-time at Kingsholm and Stuart Barnes converted both of them from the touchline .
41 It was West Ham 's first victory for nearly 2½ months , but was not enough to lift them from the bottom of the First Division .
42 More than 3,000 people joined Government programmes and 504,056 receive help under a series of schemes which exclude them from the unemployment count .
43 None of the 70,000 English , Scots , Irish , and Anzac troops expected the reception that awaited them , and the rain of death that would greet them from the machine-guns of the Turkish 9th Division , hidden in the hills above .
44 Although which river had been kept secret from Trent , he was certain that it would be the north fork of the Belpan where a bend would hide them from the road bridge .
45 He had smoked one cigarette after the other , holding them cupped in his palm to protect them from the rain .
46 Thirty yards separated them from the catamaran .
47 Ten minutes , fifteen at the most , and the wind would be on them , tearing them from the saddle .
48 The wheels were placed inside in order to protect them from the elements as well as from the deliberate damage that sometimes occurred during water disputes .
49 The first revolution had liberated them from the oppression of the Tsarist regime and reinforced their perennial dream of autonomy …
50 All the same , if we turn the figures about and look at them from the point of view of the older generation themselves , we still find that in early modern England only 10 per cent of sixty-year-olds were living with their married children or grandchildren .
51 They saw her sometimes , watching them from the hillside as they carried peats or hay , wood or baskets of fish that they 'd not sell her ; and each one could feel the chill as she silently vowed vengeance on them all .
52 It was the first of a series of compounds which are known as the ‘ tricyclic antidepressants ’ , because their chemical structure contains three rings and distinguishes them from the monoamine oxidase inhibitors .
53 However there 's not too many of them from the dam as the section back to the car park is a tame ramble running through a clearing in the trees .
54 Dozens of people with rucksacks glare back at them from the platform as they wait for their substandard ‘ Sprinter ’ to turn up ; wet , cold and miserable perhaps , but at least secure in the knowledge that they will eventually travel through the same scenery without parting with their life savings .
55 Several children did not join their friends in the water but watched them from the balustrade along the main road .
56 They wandered down the cobbled streets to the Riviera , across the Villa Comunale and then over Via Caracciolo to the balustrade that separated them from the boulders that sat on the edge of the sea .
57 Looking down below them from the top , they saw that a small crater with the remains of a dried-up lake in it was emitting sulphurous vapours from several points .
58 He and his wife had offered us accommodation with them from the time my curacy finished until after the expedition .
59 Sheepishly he collected them from the back door and they started out again .
60 It makes sure that the family of the deceased director receive fair payment for his or her shares , which saves them from the problem of having to find an alternative buyer .
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