Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pers pn] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I opposed it from the very beginning . |
| 2 | Come and clean my windows and I owed him from the last time . |
| 3 | Leslie did not want me to go with him to the station , and so I watched him from the hotel-room window , his jaunty walk bravely exaggerated . |
| 4 | To expect a genius — yes , my daughter is a genius , I knew it from the first — to endure the humdrum ways of marriage , bear children , become a housewife — it does not bear thinking of ! |
| 5 | The top is quickly reached from the grassy nick which separates it from the nearby Roaches . |
| 6 | The label draws attention to three important developments which distinguish it from the early Romanov State . |
| 7 | A real state consists of a naive state and a sequence of naive operations which produces it from the naive start state . |
| 8 | If he was thus eligible for that title , there must have been something which qualified him — something which distinguished him from the numerous other leaders , both military and political , who at the time were themselves becoming thorns in the Roman side . |
| 9 | Women lawyers are challenging the chauvinism which bans them from the higher echelons , reports Fiona Sutherland Omitted from the useful introductions to clients , business lunches , meetings and golfing sessions , women solicitors fail to acquire the vital ‘ client base . ’ |
| 10 | And the gap which separated them from the bourgeois world was wide — and unbridgeable . |
| 11 | By various tricks which save us from the full load of naive combinatorics , one can show that the student 's original result ( 61 with red eyes , 23 with white ) gives Mendel 's explanation a backing of nearly 100% ; so the professor was right . |
| 12 | Earth Dwellers have now begun to grasp that they are tattering the ozone layer , which protects them from the harmful rays of their sun ( star 4135 in our heavens ) . |
| 13 | Indeed , the divisions within the class are as striking as the features which separate it from the middle class . |
| 14 | In some ways I feel her peculiar dilemma parallels my own for she described her stance as one which distanced her from the classical anthropological mode , creating a ‘ memorable adventure ’ , which she claims , ‘ has marked me for life ’ ( ibid. 22 ) . |
| 15 | During the years between 1813 and 1830 Serbia , under Miloš , had experienced a social , cultural and economic transformation which brought it from the medieval obscurity of a declining oriental despotism to the threshold of modern European statehood . |
| 16 | a considerable collection of under-utilised data , possibly with some characteristics which differentiate them from the main archive collections ; and , |
| 17 | It had taken two of them to free me from the current and I was so relieved . |
| 18 | You become very conscious in broadcasting that though you teach the same truths , you approach them from the opposite direction . |
| 19 | . Thought better by Jewry itself to withdraw him from the public gaze . |
| 20 | He saved too the note she sent requesting ‘ Big choc. cake , ginger biscuits , Twiglets ’ just as he has kept the clipping she sent him from the Daily Telegraph about academic failures who become gifted and successful later in life . |
| 21 | Again these statements are open at least to qualification but they link back to concepts of interpersonal work as women 's tasks and therefore as work which suffers along with those who do it from the lower status of women in a patriarchal society . |
| 22 | Why do you summon me from the dead lands ? ’ |
| 23 | But though certain extremely powerful individuals — like Kraus and his mother — enslave him , it is people , ‘ ordinary ’ folk who are to him completely extraordinary , who free him from the greatest enchanter of them all — books . |
| 24 | Are we to protect them from the social effects of spreading industry about the countryside ? |
| 25 | One explanation for this is that the two bodies constituting Pluto were originally moons of Neptune , but that something tore them from the giant planet 's grasp — the converse of what is thought to have happened to Triton ! |
| 26 | We rattled them from the first minute and did n't give them any breathing space . |
| 27 | But nothing reached her from the other cabin . |
| 28 | May they preserve us from the hermetic seal . |
| 29 | To the British , Jamaica was the ‘ key to the Indies ’ when they captured it from the Spanish as an afterthought in 1655 . |
| 30 | Forcing herself to assume a composure she was far from feeling , Gina allowed him to usher her from the small lobby behind the front door into a living-room of graceful proportions . |