Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [noun prp] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a brief , appalled glance at Lydia , Mrs Molesworth ( Lil ) sat down on a corner of the sofa and asked the doctor a question about the imminent agricultural show designed to exclude Lydia from the conversation , to reveal her close knowledge of this event and therefore to illustrate her important position in the local community . |
| 2 | Mrs Hitchcock 's other daughter Stella watched in horror as her mother was slashed on the arms and face as she tried to protect Kelly from the attack . |
| 3 | First he would have pushed a strong diversionary force at Charleroi , then , when the allies moved to defend Brussels from the south , he would have launched the real attack to the west . |
| 4 | Det Supt Albert Kirkby appealed for the two boys seen escorting James from the shopping centre to come forward , saying they may be completely innocent . |
| 5 | Edward began by attempting to exclude Stratford from the assembly , but failed in the face of support for the archbishop from the Earl of Arundel , Earl Warenne , and other lay magnates who shared their suspicion of those round the king . |
| 6 | The scar would be a legacy of the injuries which he had received when attempting to haul Simon from the wreckage of his car . |
| 7 | Opposition to the king 's favourite was so soon mobilized that by May 1308 Edward was compelled to banish Gaveston from the realm . |
| 8 | That man was John Furie Zacharias , known universally as Gentle , and he had a reputation as a lover that would have driven Estabrook from the field had that strange certainty not been upon him . |
| 9 | I wondered whether I would have to teach Joe from the beginning , so I asked , ‘ How do you write Gargery , Joe ? ’ |
| 10 | Braintree have the psychological edge today , having knocked Margate from the top of the table early in the season with a 5–1 win after a seaside special on the Kent coast . |
| 11 | Having loved Martha from the bottom of his heart , Sam now found that he loved his daughter every bit as much , and could hardly tear himself away from the cradle , where he would spend hours gazing at the fruit and blessing of the union . |
| 12 | One evening I went to fetch Joe from the village pub , where my sister sometimes allowed him to smoke his pipe and have a beer . |
| 13 | Even before August 1991 , this group had tried to remove Gorbachev from the post of general secretary of the Central Committee . |
| 14 | It had plucked Mariana from the pillion seat , skittering her against the current like a flat stone skipped across a pond . |
| 15 | The fines imposed upon the Earl of Lancaster and his followers were remitted , and Lancaster received confirmation of his right to Pontefract , Tutbury and Leicester , which he had not been able to recover after the revolution of 1327 , though he had to lease Pontefract from the queen for £1,000 a year . |
| 16 | White had rescued Brown from the nose but Ainley was dead when they managed to get him out . |
| 17 | It became obvious as soon as Annunziata handed round the soup tureen that Comfort was deliberately trying to exclude David from the conversation and show him how de trop he was . |
| 18 | To date , we 've seen Rome from the Air , Venice from the Air , Florence from the Air , with Thames & Hudson releasing Egypt from the Air and Tuscany from the Air . |
| 19 | Afterwards , Angelo Dundee , who had trained Ali from the start and had to be talked into showing up for this one , watched him slumped in the dressing-room , then turned away and rubbed his eyes as certain people tried to convince Ali that he had been robbed and that a fourth title was still possible . |
| 20 | I had to save Jamila from the man who loved Arthur Conan Doyle . |
| 21 | Ronni had followed Guido from the room , running to keep pace with him as he headed across the hall . |
| 22 | For a moment the paralysis which had struck Neil from the moment that Havvie had begun his assault on her reputation was on him again . |
| 23 | He had barred Anne from the house after he had found out that the pair of them had spent an hour in the local pub after shopping one evening . |
| 24 | Yeltsin was rapturously accepted in Russia specifically as the ‘ Russian ’ leader who had liberated Russia from the communism foreign to it . |
| 25 | She had loved Connor from the day she set eyes on him ; and he loved her too , though as long as she was his brother 's wife , he would never admit it . |
| 26 | In Switzerland , though he met ‘ people of many nationalities , which I always like ’ , Eliot felt that he had released Vivienne from the strain of being with him . |
| 27 | Frederick planned to attack Lombardy from the east and west simultaneously , perhaps remembering the renowned pincer campaigns for which Charlemagne had been famous . |
| 28 | The crisis in the party increased on Aug. 11 when four of the six founding members of FORD attempted to suspend Odinga from the party . |
| 29 | It was the first time the church authorities had discussed the issue of the refugees , some 25,000 of whom have entered Hungary from the south over the past year . |
| 30 | The selectors , clearly disappointed with Scottish tight-head props Paul Burness and Peter Wright , have switched Leonard from the left to right side of the scrum . |