Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adj] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Their tiny eyes , rubbery sucking mouths and writhing bodies scarcely make them attractive from a human point of view . |
2 | Help us to cleanse it and hold it safe from the Godless forces of Communism that surround it and threaten it from within . |
3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
4 | He wanted to hold him safe from every profaning touch , and fend off every malignant thought from him . |
5 | She eased it free from the restraining material , and as she did so she felt his body tense and a shot rang out . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Rescuers took 19 minutes to cut him free from the mangled wreckage . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | It is what makes us different from the commercial banks . |