Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] us from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hours of bending and stretching and twisting down on the prom in singlets and shorts while the wind whipped over us from the wintry sea . |
| 2 | And this is what I think the dream is trying to tell me , a message so clear now you have shown me the way to understand these voices speaking to us from the hinterland , so to speak . |
| 3 | Tiny green balls of light phosphorescing at us from the dark of the bracken . |
| 4 | Queen Margaret and Catesby glowered at us from the head of the table . |
| 5 | There were some hill-walkers with ice-axes coming towards us from the other side of the hill , and I was trying to look as though I meant to come hill-walking dressed like a hairdresser 's receptionist . |
| 6 | By day we went to school , and in the evenings our grandmother read to us from the Bible and Dr David Livingstone 's journal . |
| 7 | Young men leap past us from the roof above , splashing into the water to catch up with their canoes , beer bottles held aloft . |
| 8 | It is the most potent poison known to us from the entire animal world . |
| 9 | The island was spread in front of me , outrigger canoes paddling towards us from the silver beaches lined with tall , bending palm trees and feathery casuarinas , while , behind , the green volcanic mountains rose until they seemed to meet the sky . |
| 10 | Evidence of such allowances comes to us from the time of Augustus Caesar . |