Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [vb pp] them from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had a bachelor party on board , who were out for a little merrymaking : an island marriage ball had wooed them from the desk of the counting-house , and having had a taste of the free air of these parts , and being good fellows well met , a few more days of healthful roving have a gleeful appendix to the gaieties of the wedding . |
| 2 | The first revolution had liberated them from the oppression of the Tsarist regime and reinforced their perennial dream of autonomy … |
| 3 | They instantly felt less grown up , whereas Minton had encouraged them from the start to tackle imaginative work by giving them articles from Lilliput with the illustration blocked out and the instruction that they were to do their own . |
| 4 | Sister had heard them from the S.C.O . 's office and was already beside me . |
| 5 | Dexter had snatched them from the canteen just before he and Blanche had set off . |
| 6 | If their historical interest had saved them from the pick , the swinging steel ball , and the bulldozer , their intractable lay-out had discouraged renovators who might have put them to some use . |