Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pron] from [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to contact you from time to time but you always seemed to be somewhere else . ’ |
| 2 | Now what do you reckon is the most difficult … the most dangerous job in sport … boxer … jump jockey … racing driver you could argue all night could n't you … what about a chap who has to protect himself from head to foot … gets fired at … and skates on ice … in other words the netminder in ice hockey … see for yourself in our Friday Feature |
| 3 | If we seek to protect ourselves from doubt in matters of belief , the result will be ‘ inactivity ’ . |
| 4 | Thus if you are Jewish and working class , your Jewishness is used to disqualify you from membership of labour organizations ; but equally if you are Jewish and poor , your poverty is made to signify the essentially parasitic nature of your ‘ race ’ on the host community . |
| 5 | The sciences were at one time supposed to generalize from observations by a logical operation called induction , claimed to free them from dependence on the merely analogical thinking which prevailed in the mediaeval proto-sciences , and which regrettably remain for the time being indispensable in dealing with everyday problems . |
| 6 | They might be waiting — waiting to snatch him from salvation at the very last moment . |
| 7 | It had wheels on the bottom and a handle inside , which he turned to get him from place to place . |
| 8 | Members of the parliament demanded in a 135-34 vote that Mr Yeltsin appear at the Congress tomorrow , when they may vote to remove him from office for declaring emergency rule and calling an April referendum . |
| 9 | A FRANK new TV sex education series aimed at teenagers is set to tackle everything from homosexuality to how to achieve a happy love life . |
| 10 | I know it 's a cliche but we really do have to take it from game to game — it 's the only way . ’ |
| 11 | She unearthed an ancient bicycle from some forgotten shed corner and proceeded to ride it from cottage to cottage , her sackful of letters stuffed compactly into a basket in the front . |
| 12 | Seniority provides committee chairmen with an independent power base and helps to insulate them from control by party leaders and presidents . |
| 13 | This helps to protect them from starvation during the first week or two , when conditions may still be hard . |
| 14 | And then , ‘ When she first cam , I meant to save her from misery like mine . ’ |
| 15 | From Central Office , and from around his entourage , came the unmistakable signs of fair-weather friends preparing to detach themselves from blame for defeat . |
| 16 | Does my hon. Friend agree that it would be wrong to keep uneconomic pits open by trying to protect them from competition from imported coal ? |
| 17 | She also wanted to save them from slaughter for the sum of two hundred pounds . |
| 18 | Six six contracts all the same print so that if ever we shifted you or wanted you wanted to shift you from estate into to golf or to schools we do n't have to retrain you at all . |