Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Gregory the slanders against Fredegund were intended to drive her from the court , thus facilitating the elevation of her stepson , Clovis , to the throne . |
| 2 | We tend to isolate ourselves from the rest of the natural world and yet we are very much a part of it . |
| 3 | As a novice in the game , I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ And Joe and Biddy , I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for all you 've done for me . |
| 5 | They tried to eject him from the podium . |
| 6 | MR JOHN MacGregor , the Education Secretary , has distanced himself from the Government 's loans scheme for students by appointing the two most junior ministers at the Department of Education and Science to sit on the parliamentary committee discussing the Education ( Student Loans ) Bill . |
| 7 | ‘ a very long boy , with a very little head , and an open mouth of disproportionate capacity ’ , devotedly attached to Betty Higden who has rescued him from the workhouse in which he has been brought up , having been a foundling child . |
| 8 | The bread and the wine are consecrated with the reminder that ‘ through Jesus , God has freed us from the slavery of sin ’ and given us a life that is free of such bondage . |
| 9 | He has freed you from the burden of the rules of Holy Law . ’ |
| 10 | Dalgliesh got out of the Jaguar and tried to extricate him from the pushchair , but the anatomy of the chair momentarily defeated him . |
| 11 | ‘ Shit ! ’ screamed the driver as he tried to extricate himself from the situation . |
| 12 | TOURING America with your home at your back is a popular option for familes and travellers on a budget who want to free themselves from the hassle of searching for somewhere to get their heads down each night . |
| 13 | Shallow wells generally contain much water that has reached them from the surface , and this may bring varying amounts of contamination . |
| 14 | Anyway , the outcome was that the other members tried to expel him from the branch . |
| 15 | Tanaka 's latest works are the culmination of a process that has brought him from the flat and serial minimalism of lines of white cement blocks to such imposing works as ‘ Scenery comes vertical ’ , a bronze obelisk placed in front of a painting depicting the course of the Nile . |
| 16 | Erm a and that has , that has led us from the group back to the individual tenants , and one |
| 17 | Frost 's friends stormed out of court , followed by police who tried to disperse them from the court car park . |
| 18 | In other words the mainstream right has gained nothing from the rejection of the Socialists . |
| 19 | Earlier , Buckingham Palace again tried to distance itself from the riddle . |
| 20 | Quite possibly he wants to shield us from the fact |
| 21 | Norman Lamont has learned nothing from the debacle of the past months . |
| 22 | In 1657 Crofton tried to bar him from the pulpit , as a heretic and troublemaker . |
| 23 | Whilst the evident unpopularity of Soviet domination in Eastern Europe may be thought to make such forces reliable in wartime for garrison and rear duties only , fact is that these military forces are trained and equipped for a war with NATO , according to an offensive doctrine of ‘ coalition warfare ’ , designed to place them from the start of hostilities onto an ‘ external front ’ . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She tried to raise herself from the settee but gentle hands restrained her . |
| 26 | The stories about Strahinja tell of a classic conflict between love and duty when the hero 's wife falls in love with the Turk who has abducted her from the family home whilst her husband is away in Kruševac visiting his wife 's relatives , the powerful Jugovići family . |
| 27 | Mr Lawler has sent me from The Haven to collect the thirty brace of grouse he ordered , ’ Maggie said with a smile . |
| 28 | The tragic feature of deaf education , which has bedeviled it from the beginning , is the disagreement among educators about the best method of teaching the deaf and dumb . |
| 29 | Erm I er move straight over to er er Graham and then open up for any questions or if anybody wants to say anything from the floor . |
| 30 | With Southampton trailing 2-1 and desperate for an equaliser , he grabbed the fan around the head and tried to drag him from the pitch . |