Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] from [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There seems nothing at all strange about the Church , which paid the salaries of these men and expected them to serve it , considering the question of whether or not they should be able to engage in an activity which , no matter how acceptable , would have diverted them from their main task . |
| 2 | Large body-size would , in fact , isolate them from their thermal environment because they would exchange heat at lower rates . |
| 3 | Most previous commentators on the small towns have distinguished them from their larger counterparts on the basis of their usually haphazard and seemingly piecemeal development , though it has recently become clear that such a distinction , however useful , obscures recognizable variations among the surviving plans . |
| 4 | This morning the 780 employees of Digital in Galway will wake up with a hangover after a night 's mourning and stare into an uncertain future , wishing that some divine intervention could be called upon to extract them from their present straits . |
| 5 | The barrister , too , may find that such facts are missing from his brief , and have to extract them from his instructing solicitor in conference . |
| 6 | He 'd swear of course that he 'd never again steal me from my proper duties with the children . |
| 7 | Carole Swan has just rung me from her lovely home to tell me what happened last night in the Hotel … ’ |
| 8 | This was largely because the Dutch were conscious that they were operating on a narrow margin , and they did not want anything to distract them from their main purpose , which was to bring goods for trade and re-export to their great complex of ports , banks , and merchant houses around Amsterdam . |
| 9 | Yet the Han had destroyed all that they had once been — had severed them from their cultural roots as simply and as thoroughly as a gardener might snip the stem of a chrysanthemum . |
| 10 | We could n't even bury him from our own home . |
| 11 | ‘ My dear Gwendolen , ’ he cut in impatiently , disengaging her from his new blazer . |
| 12 | After a long time , a familiar voice woke them from their lazy reverie . |
| 13 | Five people who 've been nominated for awards are not available to receive them from her Royal Highness . |
| 14 | Nothing will dissuade them from their evil plans . |
| 15 | He did n't let memory divert him from his present pleasure , but found his rhythm ; long , slow strokes . |
| 16 | This morning even the scenery could not lift her from her jaundiced mood . |
| 17 | But by the end she chose to overplay her hand and lost the sympathy of those who could have saved her from her last indignities — though perhaps not from the bottle . |
| 18 | A great adventure , a fitting enterprise for one who had known herself from infancy to be set apart for some rare destiny , and one that she had thought herself to have pursued courageously , successfully , with a redeeming love that had rescued even the anguished , complex , hostile Aaron , and had saved him from his wilder flights . |
| 19 | I ordered it at the branch of the Times Library then housed in Elliston and Cavell 's , the nearest equivalent to Harrods in the Oxford of pre-war years , and remember with what excitement I received it from their admirable librarian Miss Lush ( now Lady Ormerod ) at the end of my day 's work in the Bodleian . |
| 20 | Sweat dewed her lashes as she unbuttoned his white shirt , pushing it from his broad shoulders , running her hands over his flesh , pulling him closer , her mouth as hungry as his . |
| 21 | Our system of criminal justice demands that the government seeking to punish an individual produce the evidence by its own independent labours , rather than by the cruel , simple expedient of compelling it from his own mouth . |
| 22 | In his first letter from there he makes a significant little admission to Theo , and encloses a sketch : ‘ I should like to begin making hasty sketches of some of the many things I meet … but as it would probably keep me from my real work it is better not to start . ’ |
| 23 | Not only have the boundaries between them shifted with time , but to abstract them from their historical contexts can lead to artificiality as well as anachronism . |
| 24 | ‘ Let not that thought keep you from your well-earned sleep , ’ she advised . |
| 25 | While I do not agree with much of what Sinead says , I feel I must defend her from your ridiculous slurs . |
| 26 | While he was in no position to read her the Riot Act , it was plain commonsense to discourage her from her present ways . |
| 27 | For the first time in his life Karelius realized how narrow was the gap separating him from his pagan ancestors , the Germanic warriors of a thousand years before . |
| 28 | ‘ Give him a fair trial , ’ the fat bastard roared , ‘ and then hang him from his own gate ! ’ ) |
| 29 | Operation of the network is being passed from PTT Telecom to its Unisource Business Networks joint venture , which will run it from its International Network Management Centre in The Hague . |
| 30 | She had to hear it from his own lips , even if it meant that part of her died . |