Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] us from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young men leap past us from the roof above , splashing into the water to catch up with their canoes , beer bottles held aloft . |
| 2 | During the day we lay up in the desert , camouflaging ourselves with pieces of hessian sacking against the R.A.F. patrols who were out looking for us from the air . |
| 3 | She came with us from the orphanage back home , two hundred heads in two hundreds beds and two hundred broken hearts under two hundred army surplus blankets and the good nuns to look after us . |
| 4 | Five years after the revolution Lenin complained that the Communist Party had good political control only over the top echelons of the vast bureaucracy : ‘ Down below , however , there are hundreds of thousands of old officials who came to us from the Tsar and from bourgeois society and who , sometimes consciously and sometimes unconsciously , work against us ’ ( quoted in Merkl , 1977 , pp. 166–7 ) . |
| 5 | Nigel Dudding , you 're speaking to us from the bar at erm Henley Rugby Club , what was the atmosphere there , watching the game ? |
| 6 | And this is what I think the dream is trying to tell me , a message so clear now you have shown me the way to understand these voices speaking to us from the hinterland , so to speak . |
| 7 | Tiny green balls of light phosphorescing at us from the dark of the bracken . |
| 8 | Let us take the usable answers ( a ) — ( f ) for Question 2 and determine what antecedents and consequences are known to us from the text . |
| 9 | And that is the erm absence of understanding it seems to us from the County Planning Department of the way the actual market works , and of the need for a local authority area erm in seeking to obtain employment for its people , the need for that area to be able to offer a variety of er employment land both in quality , size and location . |
| 10 | Everyone waved at us from the street and were ever ready to help with directions . |
| 11 | The island was spread in front of me , outrigger canoes paddling towards us from the silver beaches lined with tall , bending palm trees and feathery casuarinas , while , behind , the green volcanic mountains rose until they seemed to meet the sky . |
| 12 | It came rolling towards us from the west . |
| 13 | Round about midnight our supper was delivered to us from the cookhouse in a thing called a ‘ haybox ’ . |
| 14 | Queen Margaret and Catesby glowered at us from the head of the table . |
| 15 | The following , recommended by the Law Society , is now widely used : In consideration of you today completing the purchase of we hereby undertake forthwith to pay over to Building Society the money required to redeem the mortgage/legal charge dated and to forward the redeemed mortgage/legal charge to you as soon as it is received by us from the Building Society . |
| 16 | It comes to us from the age which gave us the Great Charter , and founded the House of Commons . |
| 17 | Evidence of such allowances comes to us from the time of Augustus Caesar . |
| 18 | By day we went to school , and in the evenings our grandmother read to us from the Bible and Dr David Livingstone 's journal . |