Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] from [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Gregory the slanders against Fredegund were intended to drive her from the court , thus facilitating the elevation of her stepson , Clovis , to the throne . |
| 2 | As a novice in the game , I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ And Joe and Biddy , I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for all you 've done for me . |
| 4 | They tried to eject him from the podium . |
| 5 | They held him in a detention camp for three months , the Germans , and then the officers had come to see him from the SS . |
| 6 | Dalgliesh got out of the Jaguar and tried to extricate him from the pushchair , but the anatomy of the chair momentarily defeated him . |
| 7 | The Soviet police concluded that he had been shot in the stomach by his dog as he tried to free it from a trap ( Reuters , etc , 6 March 1992 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ I am presently endeavouring to protect you from a race that considers all human life to be a dangerous , parasitic infection . |
| 9 | In some of the more remote parishes , sculptures and carvings escaped the attentions of the iconoclasts , and elsewhere ornamental features such as carved fonts were boarded over and plastered to protect them from the commissioners . |
| 10 | The police , who routinely bend the rules in black areas , portray the youth of Brixton as doing the same , acting as if they were ‘ above the law ’ because of special measures designed to protect them from the consequences of their illegal actions — a fairly apt description of the police 's own position until very recently . |
| 11 | This is the outer layer of the tent designed to protect you from the elements , usually wind and rain , but it could also be from heat . |
| 12 | Anyway , the outcome was that the other members tried to expel him from the branch . |
| 13 | ‘ You want to reclaim it from the people that have been misused it . |
| 14 | Frost 's friends stormed out of court , followed by police who tried to disperse them from the court car park . |
| 15 | Quite possibly he wants to shield us from the fact |
| 16 | In 1657 Crofton tried to bar him from the pulpit , as a heretic and troublemaker . |
| 17 | Whilst the evident unpopularity of Soviet domination in Eastern Europe may be thought to make such forces reliable in wartime for garrison and rear duties only , fact is that these military forces are trained and equipped for a war with NATO , according to an offensive doctrine of ‘ coalition warfare ’ , designed to place them from the start of hostilities onto an ‘ external front ’ . |
| 18 | As we saw earlier , the extreme emotions of the horse are quite clear as they involve the whole horse ; but the same emotions in a more moderate form , or of lesser intensity , like apprehension or annoyance , will reveal themselves differently in different horses ; and the horse owner really has to learn them from the movement , gestures , and noises that the horse makes , and the context in which they are made . |
| 19 | With Southampton trailing 2-1 and desperate for an equaliser , he grabbed the fan around the head and tried to drag him from the pitch . |
| 20 | Did she know her husband well enough to come to rescue him from the consequences of his own indiscretions ? |
| 21 | Instead it is an elaboration of the task , designed to subtract it from the category of ‘ work ’ and add it to the creative pleasure dimension . |
| 22 | Several times the cottage tried to throw me from the scuffle boards , one night she succeeded , I got a badly twisted ankle . |
| 23 | With agitated fingers , his father felt in his shirt pocket for a cigarette , but he had forgotten to bring them from the kitchen . |
| 24 | ‘ Fairly early on we decided we 'd have separate people doing the Dalek voices because the actors hired to work them from the inside were being engaged more for their physical skills in manipulating Daleks than for their formal acting abilities , made redundant by the energies just to operate them . ’ |
| 25 | Various accusations , including that of treason , were thereupon levelled against Stratford and attempts were made to exclude him from the parliament which met subsequently . |
| 26 | Prior to completion of the missives a meeting took place at the farm when an offer was made to purchase it from the defender at a price of £65,000 . |
| 27 | In their initial — and nearly successful — attempt on the Mort Homme the Germans had sought to outflank it from the northeast , and now they tried a similar movement on Côte 304 from the west . |
| 28 | One consequence of this has been that further additions to the existing radio and television services would become deeply contested as efforts were made to detach them from the duopoly . |
| 29 | " What , no congaie , no mu tsai ? " asked Joseph precociously , straining to bridge the gap of those few years that seemed to separate him from the world of adult banter inhabited so effortlessly by Paul and his brother . |
| 30 | After her marriage attempts were made to unseat her from the London School Board because of the alleged illegality of her name . |