Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] from [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first time in his life Karelius realized how narrow was the gap separating him from his pagan ancestors , the Germanic warriors of a thousand years before . |
| 2 | Fred , the eldest son , was never interested in the business , his homosexuality and leaning towards the arts alienating him from his conservative father . |
| 3 | If it should please God for my sins to separate me from my dearest Pamela , you will only resolve not to marry one person . |
| 4 | He never reacted hostilely to any such suggestion , except to say to me that she was difficult enough in a friendly association and matters might be worse ( his own words ) if he took any action to remove her from his political scene . |
| 5 | Current ideas of the structure of water visualize it as being composed of a random network of molecules linked together by hydrogen bonds ( Figure 7 ) , some of which are strained or even broken , but with a general structure not unlike that which is found in ordinary ice , also known as hexagonal ice to distinguish it from its variant form , cubic ice , which is formed at lower temperatures . |
| 6 | Election Comment : Albany at Large : Watch the birdie PRESIDENT Mitterrand did not allow last week 's premiership crisis to deflect him from his usual Monday morning pastime : playing golf at St Cloud , near Paris . |
| 7 | But Coleridge soon discovered the shortcomings of Clevedon , and especially the inconvenient distance separating it from his literary friends in Bristol , and from the indispensable Bristol City Library . |
| 8 | Just as the concentration on individual managers isolates them from their proper context and makes them almost personally responsible for local policy variations , so the concentration on the processes of local politics isolated these from other sets of socio-economic processes . |
| 9 | As the first land-based creatures would need a tougher , armoured skin to protect them from their new environment , it is likely that these were the first amphibians . |
| 10 | Maxham was the first to appear ; Celia recognized him from his previous visits to the office . |
| 11 | … The want of ideas of their real essences sends us from our own thoughts , to the things themselves . |
| 12 | After a long time , a familiar voice woke them from their lazy reverie . |
| 13 | ‘ Let not that thought keep you from your well-earned sleep , ’ she advised . |
| 14 | In addition , we became experts in a new and complex world where everything from the intricacies of a changing semantic of underground language to the knowledge that tetrahydrocannabinol ( THE ) was the active ingredient of cannabis separated us from our previous associations and took us into a world where few in the organization could begin to operate with comfort . |
| 15 | Since intra-plate volcanicity is linked to effectively stationary sub-lithospheric thermal anomalies , there is only a limited amount of time available for a volcano to develop before plate motion removes it from its underlying region of crustal melting and source of magma generation ( Fig. 5.3 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ You know I have n't walked so much during my entire lifetime as I 've walked these last few days , ’ he said with an effort to divert her from her dark thoughts . |
| 17 | ‘ Strum Guard ’ is a term used solely by Joe Strummer to describe the bandana taped around his right hand to protect it from his own vigorous guitar-flailing . |
| 18 | Champ had pined for his master since police took him from his old home . |
| 19 | Just as his political commitments exiled him from his own class , so my politics involve an awkward relationship with my own class . |
| 20 | His call was traced and half an hour later police rescued him from his traumatic experience . |
| 21 | He did n't let memory divert him from his present pleasure , but found his rhythm ; long , slow strokes . |
| 22 | They also expressed reservations over the concept of minority rights : ‘ Britain , for example , does not allow polygamy even though certain of its citizens accept it from their religious convictions ’ ( Irish Episcopal Conference 1984 : 18 ) . |
| 23 | Specials share almost all the usual police responsibilities and just a small insignia on the epaulette distinguishes them from their regular colleagues . |
| 24 | Specials share almost all the usual police responsibilities and just a small insignia on the epaulette distinguishes them from their regular colleagues . |
| 25 | The system distracted them from their own businesses and led many of the richest families to ruin , punished for failure to fulfil the Tsar 's expectations . |