Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] from the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What separates them from the dwindling ranks of mediocre C86-type bands are their songs : sparkling things that are packed full of love-drenched sentiments , mood-lifting hooklines and wonderful tunes . |
| 2 | Nurturing confidence is one thing , but cosseting them from the harsh realities of top provincial competition could prove totally counter-productive come the two games the count against the New Zealand XV , who themselves will not include any of the All Black tourists in Australia for the Bledisloe Cup series . |
| 3 | Last time I had been to Paris they had rescued me from the freezing streets and hungry wolf packs . ) |
| 4 | ( The truth is I do n't want to forgive her , because it will free her from the grappling irons I have on her . |
| 5 | It seemed to be the only real thing in the universe ; the temple , the city , the motorspeeder , all of these were illusions devised to distract her from the important issues , the real business of life . |
| 6 | It frees him from the awkward contortions of hand and wrist that make violin lessons and practice all too necessary . |
| 7 | It is sometimes suggested that the absence of note-taking can be a help to the informant , in that it frees him from the inhibiting effects of a recorder and a notebook . |
| 8 | Finally , she left for the airfield in a pale-green safari suit , which marked her a soldier 's wife but distinguished her from the lesser spouses . |
| 9 | Send back up the hierarchy any work which significantly diverts you from the agreed priorities . |
| 10 | ( a ) It confirms whether you have correctly identified and understood the main points and separated them from the subsidiary details . |
| 11 | Earth Dwellers have now begun to grasp that they are tattering the ozone layer , which protects them from the harmful rays of their sun ( star 4135 in our heavens ) . |
| 12 | Taking a mineral-water lunch with your colleagues in a secluded senior executive dining room can divorce you from the real contributors as much as from the contribution you seek . |
| 13 | Perhaps he walks on the right side , with just the metal grid fence separating him from the rolling fields of graves — in no hurry , since there is no class for him to make . |
| 14 | The rye hid him from the French rankers , and only those officers on horseback could see the Rifleman over the tall crop . |
| 15 | To differentiate it from the Carolingian revisions the Merovingian text has come to be called the Pactus Legis Salicae . |
| 16 | The intention is , or the hope , anyway , to detach it from the other explosives ? ’ |
| 17 | According to Schleiermacher , each positive religion contains something of the true nature of religion , and the ‘ primordial form ’ , the ‘ essence ’ , or ‘ transcendental unity ’ of religion , is comprehended not by deducing it from the common elements of particular religions as a kind of abstraction , but in and through the language and traditions of particular religions . |
| 18 | Positive and negative pressures applied to straight edged polygons and polyhedra convert them from the crystalline forms of rocks and earths to the positive and negative , male and female , expressions of life . |
| 19 | This church , Santa Ephygenia was where the African slaves came to worship , to pray to the saint to protect them from the dreadful accidents they faced in the mines . |
| 20 | Are we to protect them from the social effects of spreading industry about the countryside ? |
| 21 | As has already been mentioned , young children are particularly at risk , and they are dependent on adults to protect them from the potential dangers in their home environment . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | His mother sought to protect him from the usual customs such as summoning the relatives to his father 's bedside , but the trauma was nevertheless very deeply felt . |
| 24 | But then the sound of different voices came to his ears , and Carolyn called him from the french windows . |
| 25 | She had flattered his self-esteem , protected him from the minor irritations of life , preserved his privacy with maternal pugnacity , had ensured , with infinite tact , that he knew all he needed to know about what was going on in his Laboratory . |
| 26 | Matey had gone out , not to return until late at night , leaving Dr Neil 's tea in the larder on a plate carefully positioned under a fine gauze hood to protect it from the ubiquitous flies ; he had said not to leave him supper , for he might visit the local evening market where prepared food of all kinds was on sale , from oysters to whelks ; he was partial to shellfish , he said . |
| 27 | If it is forthcoming , he will protect them from the terrible plagues with which he afflicted the Egyptians before their escape . |
| 28 | But Ranulf was here and while Corbett bathed and changed his clothing , he wondered how Ranulf could protect him from the secret assassins now stalking him . |
| 29 | The virtue of the Prince must be ‘ secured , like Ulysses , to the mast of the law , in order to save it from the seductive voices of flattery and vanity ’ . |
| 30 | He personally led the last expedition to the Blighted Isle and reclaimed it from the Dark Elves . |