Example sentences of "[prep] us from the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was clear to us from the beginning that 1991 would not be a very good year to launch anything — from magazines to Scuds . |
| 2 | Five years after the revolution Lenin complained that the Communist Party had good political control only over the top echelons of the vast bureaucracy : ‘ Down below , however , there are hundreds of thousands of old officials who came to us from the Tsar and from bourgeois society and who , sometimes consciously and sometimes unconsciously , work against us ’ ( quoted in Merkl , 1977 , pp. 166–7 ) . |
| 3 | By day we went to school , and in the evenings our grandmother read to us from the Bible and Dr David Livingstone 's journal . |
| 4 | We made ourselves at home , ate the simple food sent across to us from the refectory and retired to bed . |
| 5 | Everyone waved at us from the street and were ever ready to help with directions . |