Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pron] from the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | LITTLE Miss Bossy Emma Gardner keeps a firm grip on her brother after saving him from the clutches of a child abductor . |
| 3 | In contrast , if you are white , and unless you actually subscribe to racist arguments , you will want to find ways of dissociating yourself from the views expressed here . |
| 4 | ONE type of wild potato has developed a novel way of protecting itself from the ravages of aphids — by producing the chemical that aphids themselves use as an alarm signal . |
| 5 | And the effect for Locke is this , and again I , I quote the legislative being only a fiduciary power , that is to say a power based on trust a fiduciary power to act for certain ends , there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust imposed in them and thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of every body even if their legislators whenever they shall be so foolish or so wicked as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | To find the benefits of religion , we have to find some way of separating it from the institutions which claim to represent it . |
| 8 | I had had nothing to read for three months , and now that we had some time to ourselves reading was a good way of distracting myself from the immediacies of life around me . |
| 9 | For Iranians it was always a political as well as religious creed , and way of differentiating themselves from the Arabs . |
| 10 | But the cubicle in which the yellow sheet had been found could reveal no further secrets , and all hope had early been abandoned of learning anything from the scores of footprints which had criss-crossed the grassy area since the murder . |
| 11 | The vast majority of the black sportsmen have aspirations of detaching themselves from the routines of school , employment — or unemployment — and wringing out a career in sports , even athletics , ostensibly an amateur sport but bountiful enough in ‘ gifts ’ and sponsorships to make it a lucrative career . |
| 12 | So Suger persuaded Louis to begin the task — not completed till the reign of Philip Augustus — of extricating himself from the bonds of homage which bound him to various bishops in the realm . |
| 13 | Today , the medical establishment , in both Britain and America , is of the opinion that dietary fibre is of value in protecting us from the diseases of modern Western civilization . |
| 14 | In the case of the elder James Stephen 's commitment to antislavery , it came after the experience of working in the West Indies as a lawyer , but more precisely , that experience helped direct into antislavery the expression of his gratitude ‘ for the infinite mercy of God ’ in extricating him from the depths of sin brought on by sexual passion and setting him on the path of prosperity and happiness . |
| 15 | So free it from the edge of the sinker plate that it 's on , but without freeing it from the wheels and brushes beneath the sinker plate . |
| 16 | So tightly can Loricariids sucker themselves with their flattened mouths that their mouths would actually be torn by attempts at removing them from the logs . |
| 17 | In the United States , Australia and other parts of the world , deposits are secondary and are mined with much less disturbance by digging them from the sites to which natural processes have moved them . |