Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has carried me from the comfortable Salisbury suburb where a kind Scottish family have made me a home , to a rough Bulawayo farmstead . |
| 2 | Professor Black 's TGAT report , for all its expensive complexity , has saved us from the test-led teaching that seemed at one time inevitable . |
| 3 | It has led him from the brooding atmosphere of his early novels to the limpid clarity of his last . |
| 4 | ‘ The Mirror has taken it from the limited audience it has had right out into the open . |
| 5 | They bartered their grain for the salt he 'd brought back from the border , where he traded with Tibetans who 'd scraped it from the arid salt-lakes and carried it south on yaks across the windswept dust-blown plateau lands . |
| 6 | His 123 came out of 165 off 162 deliveries in 211 minutes ; a few months earlier in Australia he had run himself out on 99 in his desperation to reach the magic figure , but one would never have guessed it from the effortless way he swept there now . |
| 7 | Thomas was sure the other androids would have rescued her from the burning ship but , discovering she was not part of their mission , would then have executed her . |
| 8 | My mother 's hotel may have elevated her from the raw stuff of commerce — so much so that she now subscribed to Country Living and other unspecialist periodicals — but the caravan enclosure was decaying anew . |
| 9 | He would have liked to have watched it from the public gallery ; but that would have been asking for trouble . |
| 10 | Yet considerate as ever , Louisa had shielded him from the worst of the intrusion . |
| 11 | Last time I had been to Paris they had rescued me from the freezing streets and hungry wolf packs . ) |
| 12 | J.B. Priestley once said that it could never quite make up its mind whether it was a port or a resort , but that very ambivalence had saved it from the worst pitfalls of both . |
| 13 | And they 've clouted it from the outside going in . |
| 14 | Until he had died for man 's forgiveness , until God had raised him from the dead by way of vindication , the Spirit which rested upon him was not available to be passed on to others . |
| 15 | They had removed him from the stifling atmosphere of the Court , but already he was finding that Civil Service protocol could be just as oppressive . |
| 16 | No other man had so eloquently and constantly spoken of the way I had haunted him from the first moment he cast eyes on me . |
| 17 | ‘ I think I 've loved you from the first moment I saw you , ’ she said , and drew in her breath sharply as he crushed her against him . |
| 18 | You know I 've loved you from the very beginning and I 'll go on loving you . |
| 19 | He 's taken them from the old Fourth to the top three in the First Division . |