Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adj] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The office block on the Albert Embankment which houses his penthouse looks nothing special from the outside — a drab 1960s monstrosity in concrete and glass . |
| 2 | If you want something different from the standard offerings of garden centres , order fledgling plants in plugs of soil , and seedlings . |
| 3 | Now it is time to shake yourself free from the gentle form of the dove . |
| 4 | He could hardly ease himself free from the great stinking weight . |
| 5 | Help us to cleanse it and hold it safe from the Godless forces of Communism that surround it and threaten it from within . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's angry and irritable and he 's made it clear from the very beginning that he does n't expect me to come up to scratch . ’ |
| 7 | The Lady Prioress raised tearful eyes , shook herself free from the clinging sisters and wiped her cheeks . |
| 8 | ‘ You find anything useful from the scene-of-crime report ? |
| 9 | Phoebe was not going to devour her in love and thus keep her safe from the great fangs and wraths of Fenna . |
| 10 | The rebel republic has already declared itself independent from the Soviet Union and President Gorbachev threatened grave consequences if its parliament does n't renounce the decision . |
| 11 | She eased it free from the restraining material , and as she did so she felt his body tense and a shot rang out . |
| 12 | Children are subjected every day to newspaper and television news bulletins revealing the brutality and ugliness of the world and no matter how hard we try we could never successfully protect our young from the harsh reality of our violent world . |
| 13 | Gilt ceilings and old silver certainly make it different from the usual run of East European cafés and on a warm early evening it is pleasant to sit outside and watch and chatter . |
| 14 | The therapist should prepare the patient for termination by making it clear from the first interview that a relatively short period of treatment is planned . |
| 15 | Fans of the band 's music do n't particularly get anything extra from the rag-arsed studio orphan ‘ Do n't Give Me No Lip , Child ’ or the ‘ Live At Trondheim ’ CD which ends , in tribute to ‘ Metallic KO ’ , with the sounds of dumped instruments and broken bottles . |
| 16 | Imagination from other viewpoints depends on my having already perceived something analogous from the then present and my own , and is undernourished if I was distracted at the time by consideration of the future or of others . |
| 17 | However it is evident that he intended something different from the simple a cappella doubling of voices by instruments , and this ‘ something different ’ became known as the ‘ concerted style ’ ( stile concertato ) , a ‘ consort ’ of voices and instruments . |
| 18 | Rescuers took 19 minutes to cut him free from the mangled wreckage . |
| 19 | The public sector has a political environment , theoretical foundations , an ethos , a culture and a sheer diversity which makes it distinctive from the private sector . |
| 20 | It is what makes us different from the commercial banks . |