Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] [pers pn] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the whole socialist feminists were suspicious of allowances on the grounds that they would undermine male wage-bargaining and preferred to argue , like Ada Nield Chew , for services in kind to support mothers in the ‘ drudgery ’ of child care ; Fabian women preferred direct payment to mothers in order to maintain their economic independence from their husbands and free them from the need to take on paid work which would distract them from their primary task of mothering ( Alexander , 1979 ) . |
| 2 | Sinatra also held the rights to the movie and withdrew it from the public domain shortly after release because it closely shadowed the Kennedy assassination . |
| 3 | In verse erm thirteen , I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries and bring them into their own land . |
| 4 | But Patsy decided she needed a hand with the unpacking and phoned him from the car on the way home . |
| 5 | He took a taper and lit it from the large wax candle burning in front of the statue of the Madonna . |
| 6 | Absolutely , ’ he said , hooking an arm around the man 's shoulders and leading him from the porch . |
| 7 | Juliet smiled at Donna and followed him from the room . |
| 8 | She was a little overweight , her hands a touch too pudgy when she reached for various books and took them from the shelves . |
| 9 | He picked up the tray and followed her from the room . |
| 10 | It was Karl Franz who led the charge of the Reiksguard at the battle of Norduin against the Bretonnians , where the Emperor 's personal valour finally broke the resistance of the Bretonnian flank guard and drove them from the narrow defile which they had defiantly held throughout the battle . |
| 11 | Over the centuries this painting acquired a reputation for being miraculous , although in an ill-defined way , so that in 1413 Duke Filippo Maria Visconti decided to build a church to house the work and shelter it from the weather . |
| 12 | Jesus has destroyed the devil 's work and delivered you from the power of sin . |
| 13 | Twenty years later , after including a pledge to abolish the Lords in the 1983 manifesto and dropping it from the 1987 manifesto , the Labour party again committed itself to reform of the Lords : now they planned to replace it with an elected chamber designed more to reflect the diversity of the nation and the regions , but with less legislative power . |
| 14 | The band were initially looking for a lighting rig and a PA system to do a gig in Aberdeen and obtained them from the music shop she worked in . |
| 15 | Instinctively he waved it from his face before getting to his feet and brushing it from the lapels of his overcoat . |
| 16 | There are eight behaviours that are typical of successful negotiators and distinguish them from the less successful . |
| 17 | Your mother was a witch 's daughter , born in your world but not in your time — long before that , in a time when they feared witches and hung them from the gallows tree . |
| 18 | A full understanding of poetry requires that both principles are seen to be at work , for to analyze the laws of poetry without taking account of those of ordinary language would be to overlook the specifically verbal nature of poetry and to transform it from the domain of language to that of music . |
| 19 | The principal methodological difficulty of the attempt to specify the developmental effects of TNCs in the global system is to isolate their effects and differentiate them from the general effects of the processes of ‘ modernization ’ ( a concept abandoned by most researchers but which lives on regardless ) . |
| 20 | The glass itself was converted into smudged mirrors which enlarged their ambience and distanced them from the storm . |
| 21 | Condition your hair and protect it from the sun with a leave-in conditioner . |
| 22 | There was so much that we used to cut it into strips and string it from the eaves to dry in the wind and sun . |
| 23 | But cruelty in intensifying awareness contracts and withdraws it from the pleasures , even from pains not inflicted by the sadist himself . |
| 24 | This radiation cuts through the dust in space that blocks off the light from distant objects and hides them from the gaze of optical telescopes . |
| 25 | The ruler of Sharjah , Shaikh bin Sultan Mohammed al-Qassimi , on Feb. 4 , 1990 , removed from his brother , Shaikh Abdel-Aziz bin Mohammed al-Qassimi , the title of Crown Prince and dismissed him from the deputy chairmanship of the Sharjah Executive Council . |
| 26 | Towards the end of my Baghdad tour I had regular tussles with the group captain in friendly games of tennis , but I was never able to take a set off him , which never surprised me since he was more or less the permanent Inter-Services Tennis Champion in the UK , ( Oddly enough , Jackie Hunter was my station commander early in the war and saved me from the wrath of my Air Officer Commanding — " Maori " Coningham — when I brought my bombs back when everyone else had " found the target " , but this was before the days of the night camera . ) |
| 27 | But what this meant in reality was recruiting a thin stratum of educated and loyal workers and removing them from the factory floor . |
| 28 | They protect the organs of the body and insulate us from the cold . |
| 29 | Then , with Falkenhayn invading northern Romania , Mackensen 's reinforced army was free to cross the Danube and assault her from the south . |
| 30 | The Temperance Society meeting on the village green in the hope of turning the local ungodly into Christians and freeing them from the ‘ demon drink ’ . |