Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Ennals got one from the Prime Minister 's son during his visit here on behalf of the British Government . |
| 2 | No , what I am looking at are the first direct signals to reach me from the dark constellation of Serafin . |
| 3 | Linda recognised her from the previous day at school . |
| 4 | Ashworth 's analysis uses interesting concepts drawn from sociology and psychology but his data cover everything from the official histories of the war , including divisional and battalion histories , right across to the diaries of ordinary soldiers , some of which were based on notes taken during the war but written up years later . |
| 5 | Cunningham detached himself from the British game negotiating a £1 million transfer to Real Madrid in 1979 , the same year in which Maurice Hope of Antigua emulated Dixon , Turpin , Bassey and Conteh by winning a world boxing title . |
| 6 | The hotel to stay in is the Victoria , a handsome pile run by the genial Platzer family ; they send a minibus to fetch you from the little airport at Berne — one hour 's drive away — and Herr Platzer then shows you where to hire ski equipment ( roughly £24 a week ) and organise lessons . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Captain Meredith observed her from the open door , as did Miss Jarman . |
| 9 | So the next two days were spent in readying and arming a mixed squadron of available craft , merchanters all , but every one necessarily accustomed to using defensive artillery to protect themselves from the English pirates who infested the Norse Sea . |
| 10 | ‘ They 'd get done in if they did it 'ere , ’ said Nancy , using her healthy roundness to expel herself from the jammed-up doorway . |
| 11 | Inevitably they led to the totally unnecessary deaths of many pet cats , as jittery owners took emergency steps to protect themselves from the dreaded twentieth-century plague . |
| 12 | In spite of his ritual attempt to distance himself from the young man who had written that poem , he knew very well that even his contemporary reputation in large part rested on it : that , and the last three of the Four Quartets , he told Ezra Pound , had been worth writing . |
| 13 | Their statement was interpreted as an attempt to distance themselves from the so-called ‘ Central Belt activists ’ who withdrew their strongly worded motion at the executive and voted with the six on the statement drawn up by Councillor Rob Gibson which regretted the MPs ' actions . |
| 14 | " Combining mystery with history " : this was a phrase I invented ( or perhaps inadvertently cribbed ) for the blurb of the first novel I wrote under the pseudonym of Evelyn Hervey , The Governess , a story in which Miss Harriet Unwin in her first post as a governess in 1870s London finds herself accused of murder and has to pinpoint the real killer to save herself from the Old Bailey . |
| 15 | Of the Enlightenment as Kant or Voltaire saw it ( see pp. 411ff below ) , as the human mind liberating itself from the self-imposed tutelage of centuries , a new birth of intellectual adventure , they had no inkling . |
| 16 | Millie remembered it from the previous evening . |
| 17 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
| 18 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
| 19 | DINAMO Tbilisi , as expected , have lodged their appeal against UEFA 's decision to disqualify them from the European Cup ( writes Lyle Jackson ) . |
| 20 | The Vevay Beauty range covers everything from the latest cosmetics to skin and hair care — every product thoroughly clinically tested and selected for you individually to suit your colouring and skin type . |
| 21 | It has been agreed to call these antibodies perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies to differentiate them from the classical cANCA present in Wegener 's granulomatosis . |
| 22 | Alice Fell was such a stumbling-block that Wordsworth withdrew it from the 1820 edition of his poems . |
| 23 | Anna reached the door and as she fumbled for the latch , Melody opened it from the other side . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | His next letter offered her marriage to save her from the dreadful future of stripping off that she would be subjected to otherwise . |
| 26 | In a continuing battle to distance itself from the latest investigations , the Richmond Fellowship UK is trying to oust Jansen from an office she and staff from the charitable foundation occupy rent free behind its Kensington headquarters . |
| 27 | Hugh liked him from the first ; and so do I like him , I like him very well . |
| 28 | Screens of holly and ivy sheltered her from the deepening winter , but now the forest became a black and frozen place . |
| 29 | Accordingly , while congratulating the Association on its endeavours , may I make a plea to the members of its Committee to restrain themselves from the political tactic of eyewash and puff and to conduct themselves , so far as the Law Society are concerned , in a straightforward , honest and co-operative manner ? |
| 30 | The rye hid him from the French rankers , and only those officers on horseback could see the Rifleman over the tall crop . |