Example sentences of "[verb] her from the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a comment on Eve 's lofty nature she notes that the serpent ‘ did not try to tempt her from the path of duty by brilliant jewels , rich dresses , worldly luxuries or pleasures , but with the promise of knowledge … and he found in the woman that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasures of picking flowers and talking with Adam did not satisfy ’ . |
| 2 | The buoy shielded her from the view of the guards , and she used that advantage to get her breath back . |
| 3 | Since the firm he works for won the contract for the Statue of Liberty , it has been responsible for protecting her from the ravages of harsh Atlantic weather . |
| 4 | That kind of insight can free her from the constraints of the inner voice which effectively commands her , ‘ Turn right here . |
| 5 | As though she had seen something which disturbed her from the window of the apartment . |
| 6 | She was running wildly when the two college students saw her and recognised her from the party as Greg 's girlfriend . |
| 7 | Whatever vanishing act had saved her from the goon with the gun , it had left her armed . |
| 8 | Corbett had no choice but told her from the beginning of the events at Godstowe . |
| 9 | But since she had wrecked Luke 's plans for a country weekend with Lexy , and deprived him of the possibility of replacing her from the ranks of his unofficial harem , perhaps it was hardly surprising that he should demand that she herself should fill the gap . |
| 10 | Deborah Ford , 29 , said later that her husband had pushed her from the path of the shark . |
| 11 | And was it for this awfulness that she had taken the great jump that would divide her from the rest of her life , that she could never go back to , for this she had put herself beyond the pale and ruined her life ? |
| 12 | Taking her arm , he drew her to her feet , his body shielding her from the rest of the room . |
| 13 | The multitude parted , the enclosure opened its gates , the press photographers descended and engulfed her , shielding her from the view of all but the tabloids . |
| 14 | Ruth nodded and before she could ask him if he was too he clasped her hands and hauled her from the water into his arms . |
| 15 | She saw his glance rake her from the top of her shining chestnut hair over her make-up-free face , and down over her pretty cotton wrap to the tips of her toes . |
| 16 | But what really counts is this indirect usefulness to her , it released her from the patterns of the novel of society and therefore , permitted the flowering of her real talent , a talent for finding and giving dramatic form to impulses and feelings which because of their depth , or mysteriousness , or intensity , or ambiguity , or of their ignoring or transcending every day norms of propriety or reason , increase wonderfully the sense of reality in a novel . |
| 17 | The Eladeldi had dragged her from the steps into an alley , shoved her against a wall and searched her . |
| 18 | Dashing into the kitchen now , she found Jessie standing at the table and squeezing a lemon into a glass and she had almost pulled her from the table towards the door before she managed to say to her , ‘ He 's … he 's downstairs in the yard . |
| 19 | He and his sister stood on either side of the bed , bending over her as if to protect her from the perils of the night with their own flesh and bone . |
| 20 | Nor that the reason she had sent Maggie to an all-girls ' school was not to protect her from evil-minded youths , but to protect her from the sort of teaching that she seemed to be getting . |
| 21 | He would also fight tooth and nail to keep her from the likes of Tommy Allen . |
| 22 | By comparison with a freighter , moored so close her black stern virtually hung over Isvik 's knife-edged bows , she looked very small , but viewing her from the standpoint of the maxi in which I had raced round the world , I guessed she was roughly the same size — at least twenty-five metres long with a good beam and what looked like a deep V-shaped hull . |
| 23 | He led her from the scene of horror to a patch of rocky high ground that seemed safe . |
| 24 | This prevented her parents taking her from the home of her 18-year-old boyfriend where she has been living . |
| 25 | In the flesh Jane Pargeter was familiar but different to how Dexter had imagined her from the image on television . |
| 26 | Margaret Hughes wept in the backseat of the police car that took her from the court to prison . |
| 27 | In the hypothetical case of his son and daughter Gandhi would consider that he was acting out of moral considerations in taking his son 's life in order to save him from unnecessary suffering , and his daughter 's life in order to save her from the threat of violation . |
| 28 | It was an actual roar he let out and it was mingled with Jessie 's scream as he tore her from the shelter of the coalhouses and the young man 's arms . |
| 29 | He had assisted in lifting her from the floor of Willi Zimmermann 's living room when she was blindly unconscious . |
| 30 | It made him turn to face her from the bottom of the steps . |