Example sentences of "[verb] us from the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had first spied us from the balcony of ‘ their ’ room . |
| 2 | The cabbie , who drove us from the airport to our hotel , had spent some time in Oxford and London . |
| 3 | The bread and the wine are consecrated with the reminder that ‘ through Jesus , God has freed us from the slavery of sin ’ and given us a life that is free of such bondage . |
| 4 | Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord here from Shiloh , that he may come among us and save us from the power of our enemies . ’ |
| 5 | But that realisation should not be a disappointment : rather it liberates us from the job of creating masterpieces , and gives us a much more achievable task . |
| 6 | God means to free us from the bondage to the self-centredness and self-vindication which marked us in the old days , and has equipped us with the Spirit of the Messiah to set us free to serve him unselfconsciously , effectively and joyfully . |
| 7 | The congregation — perhaps 400 people , from outrageous punks to young women with babies — prayed with him ‘ to free us from the temptation of power , the temptation of violence — remove us from the barriers of ideology . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ How pleasant , then , for you to relax on this assignment , ’ Roman countered smoothly , a steely note beneath the surface , ‘ knowing that family friendship absolves us from the need for stiff formality . ’ |
| 9 | This is not a call to glorify suffering for its own sake , but to realize that nothing can separate us from the love of Christ , whatever it may be . |
| 10 | When we turn to God in prayer and supplication with thanksgiving , God will fill us with the peace which passes all understanding , nothing in all creation can separate us from the love of God which is expressed in Jesus Christ his son , our Lord . |
| 11 | She agreed with Gilbert that the souls of the dead are in the hand of God and , as for herself , she was persuaded that there is nothing in this world or out of it which can separate us from the love of God . |
| 12 | Soldiers from the base struck at our hands with metal rods while Thames Valley police twisted and karate-chopped fingers and wrists , pulled us from the fence by our necks and flung us into ditches and trees . |
| 13 | ‘ What distinguishes us from the rest of the industry is that we do research to prove the claims we make , ’ he says . |
| 14 | He said I am sure I am sure that neither death nor life nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord . |
| 15 | ‘ Neither death nor life nor angels , nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come , nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God … ’ |
| 16 | A charming Chinese member of staff greeted us and took us from the airport to Robert Black College which was to be our home for four months . |
| 17 | A Zim motor-car took us from the airport to the Europe Hotel which is just off the Nevsky prospekt , the wide main street of Leningrad . |
| 18 | ‘ How very different from Spain' was Dana 's first comment as the bus took us from the station to Avondale Buildings . |
| 19 | He 's taking us from the airport to what is locally down as the Darth Vader Hotel . |
| 20 | Nothing was said , but we all knew he had gone against his own convictions to save us from the pain of losing his company and his vital support . |
| 21 | It may seem that if we succeed in adapting our values to such disturbances instead of losing them altogether , it is because we still retain some vestige of a Christian and liberal moral tradition a memory of ‘ Do unto others … ’ at the roots of social habit , which saves us from the collapse into competing egoisms into which deepening conflicts are perpetually driving us . |
| 22 | ‘ That suits us from the point of view of pressure . |
| 23 | Who can deliver us from the power of these mighty gods ? ’ |
| 24 | So we have that remarkable verse , Galatians 3.13 : ‘ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law , having become a curse for us . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law , having become a curse for us — for it is written ‘ Cursed be every one who hangs upon a tree ’ — so that in Christ Jesus the blessing accorded to Abraham might come upon the Gentiles , that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith' ( Gal. 3:14 ) . |