Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] from the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UNO coalition has distanced itself from the contras , as has the US Administration by ending military aid . |
| 2 | Adeva needs to extricate herself from the hands of Smack Productions , hardly the dynamic force in garage music they once looked like they 'd become , in order to capitalise on what is still a growing surge of goodwill in America . |
| 3 | In some of the more remote parishes , sculptures and carvings escaped the attentions of the iconoclasts , and elsewhere ornamental features such as carved fonts were boarded over and plastered to protect them from the commissioners . |
| 4 | The police , who routinely bend the rules in black areas , portray the youth of Brixton as doing the same , acting as if they were ‘ above the law ’ because of special measures designed to protect them from the consequences of their illegal actions — a fairly apt description of the police 's own position until very recently . |
| 5 | This is the outer layer of the tent designed to protect you from the elements , usually wind and rain , but it could also be from heat . |
| 6 | ‘ She cross because she have to come fetch me from the police station . |
| 7 | I just tried to defend myself from the blows . ’ |
| 8 | Did she know her husband well enough to come to rescue him from the consequences of his own indiscretions ? |
| 9 | Indeed , most Tories sought to distance themselves from the actions of their own supporters amongst the rank and file . |
| 10 | They 'd taken her from the police cells after two days . |
| 11 | Comforts and consolations may appear to wean us from the gifts to the Giver . |
| 12 | A daunting background for the growing boy even though his parents wisely sought to cushion him from the realities . |
| 13 | After them the literary scene in Slovenia throughout the nineteenth century resembles that of many of the small nations of Europe struggling to free themselves from the shackles of the great multinational empires which straddled the continent from Finland to the Aegean . |
| 14 | Her hair , red snakes struggling to free themselves from the hairpins , was the only vital thing about her . |
| 15 | But soon she began to detach herself from the girls sitting hand in hand in the Bun Shop and from their faintly rebuking way of going at their books . |
| 16 | Indeed , it led to the so-called Euro-communism of the 1970s , when communist parties with quite substantial support , as in Spain , Portugal and Italy , began to distance themselves from the policies of the Soviet Union and its satellites . |
| 17 | By denying the existence of administrative law in the face of the structural pressures for the growth in administration , the influence which Dicey 's theory had on political and legal thought served to shield us from the realities and to prevent us from addressing the issues raised by these developments in a constructive fashion . |
| 18 | Goering could have shot him from the skies . |
| 19 | Whoever was inside could have seen him from the windows . |
| 20 | I pointed out that Christianity had always stressed the idea of faith history ( having got it from the Jews ) and that Jesus was believed to be the intervention of God in human history . |
| 21 | " We have n't much line either , " she said , " I shall have to fly it from the stays . " |
| 22 | At the same time they would also wish to distance themselves from the connotations of full employment with which Friedman was to invest to the concept of the natural unemployment rate ( see next section ) . |
| 23 | Much of the energy of the press and television fraternity was devoted to battling for access to news material , sometimes involving conflicts within news ‘ pools ’ and sometimes between news-gatherers and the military , as when the Iraqi government expelled most journalists or the French agency AFP was reported to be bringing a lawsuit against the Pentagon , which AFP accused of having excluded it from the pools . |
| 24 | Otherwise we put the continuity of vital work in jeopardy by failing to shelter it from the winds of international currency exchanges . |
| 25 | His voice was a mere whisper , but such was the effect of his words on the woman that he might have shouted them from the rooftops . |
| 26 | Julia felt worse and worse all the next day , but managed to hide it from the others . |
| 27 | The stresses and tensions in those early days got to me , even though I managed to obscure them from the viewers . |
| 28 | Leith was n't embarrassed , just saddened that his love for her friend had brought him to this , as he revealed how , for fear of losing what little chance he had with Rosemary , he had kept quiet about his love when he 'd wanted to shout it from the rooftops . |
| 29 | More than that , she nearly died to save you from the results of your own jealousy and spite . |
| 30 | He claimed to have heard it from the lips of Raisa , and swore its truth . |