Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] from the [adj] " in BNC.

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61 And they 've clouted it from the outside going in .
62 Celia and Brassard , who had overheard everything from the outer office , exchanged rueful glances .
63 Until he had died for man 's forgiveness , until God had raised him from the dead by way of vindication , the Spirit which rested upon him was not available to be passed on to others .
64 War was declared and , more or less at the same time , her mother , who wished to distance her from the rough and ready children at the village school , arranged for her to have piano lessons .
65 At all costs Hauser wished to distance himself from the coming Manescu operation in various ex-Communist European states .
66 They had removed him from the stifling atmosphere of the Court , but already he was finding that Civil Service protocol could be just as oppressive .
67 No other man had so eloquently and constantly spoken of the way I had haunted him from the first moment he cast eyes on me .
68 Trying to defend himself from the verbal barrage , Col Mladenovic moved closer to his two bodyguards and said softly : ‘ You people left the Army .
69 seeks to liberate itself from the Greek domination of the Same and the One … as if from oppression itself — an oppression certainly comparable to none other in the world , an ontological or transcendental oppression , but also the origin or alibi of all oppression in the world .
70 ‘ I think I 've loved you from the first moment I saw you , ’ she said , and drew in her breath sharply as he crushed her against him .
71 You know I 've loved you from the very beginning and I 'll go on loving you .
72 In April 1891 he attended a conference of Unitarian churches in London and heard Ben Tillett [ q.v. ] deliver a harsh attack on how the existing churches had alienated themselves from the working man .
73 Among the smaller opposition parties the JCP fought a largely defensive campaign in which it attempted to dissociate itself from the discredited communist regimes of Eastern Europe .
74 ‘ We are confident we have done nothing wrong , but need to protect ourselves from the arbitrary and capricious actions of our adversaries . ’
75 The generally accepted reason was that the French coffers were nearly empty and he wanted to replenish them from the vast treasures of the Knights Templars .
76 You have to count them from the first , this is one , one , two , three , four
77 Yes , but I mean , you have to , you not to not know that you have to count it from the first one does n't matter .
78 With him was his shadow , the poetic Zborowski , who , in brotherly friendship , wanted to protect him from the dangerous life of Nice .
79 He 's taken them from the old Fourth to the top three in the First Division .
80 ‘ If we have learned anything from the last few years , it is that availability is the main occasion and the trigger for experimentation among the young . ’
81 The others were trying to drive the protesters away , and a fight seemed likely to break out at any minute , until a pair of uniformed police constables appeared , and stood watching them from the other side of the street .
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